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I agree with this in part, but when you have those who are educated, it is the money that is the problem, many take the opportunity to rise by stepping on those less educated/well off thinking they are above them. I was raised in Australia where "Fair go" was the level playing field, those who think they are above others were cut down and those less fortunate were raised with the help of mates, but today, the level playing field is no longer level and many 'imported' minorities who would have been accepted and integrated into a truly multicultural society are demanding and getting more than the very people who took them in creating an uneven playing field and disharmony...

Being disabled due to a motor vehicle accident when I was 23, I found myself mixing with many others who also suffered from various disabilities, over a long period of time I found I had TRUE friends in those less fortunate, poor, lacking education, than those who 'thought' they were better than many others simply because they could afford to go to Uni and earnt better money, now this may sound like jealousy, but far from it, I am here today in the Philippines because I have come to realise that genuine people have nothing to prove to anyone else and live their lives better I feel, than those who are consumed by the trappings that money and better jobs bring.

I watched a Documentary a few days ago on the Mokum People of Thailand (very much like the Badjao people here) who are a displaced people who have lost their ancestral rights to fish and live on the seas, it showed just how knowledgeable these people are and how they have survived for thousands of years living off of the land, how they can name more than 150 species of plants that they use for food, medicines etc and are teaching western doctors the importance of many of these plants to heal others. It really got me to thinking about the importance of people and the lives that they lead and the rights they have to live the life that they choose...

Sometimes, just; sometimes, as the narrator (an American Professor of said documentary) pointed out, the need to educate the world is not always a necessary thing to do when we could learn a lot from those whom we deem to be uneducated, and when you look at just how much of the wealth in the world is tied up in such a small percentage of greedy unscrupulous sub-human people who often create 'the poor' in society, then maybe it is time to educate those affected by those who are being affected by the educated...

Just my opinion.

 

Very sad and scary stories in this article

 

Also WHY I NEVER subscribe to this unnecessary part of many lives, I grew up 'in the Church' and saw many things that have long since poisoned me against this hypocritical pastime; "The weekend hypocrite"... IMHO RADICAL Christians are no better than RADICAL Muslims! I have friends who are both Christian and Muslim, each to their own if they are mainstream and practice what they believe without hurting their fellow human, or trying to brainwash me into their nonsense! I can think for myself and stand on my own two feet and do not need something to prop me up in life, but when either side becomes radical or PUSHY in their beliefs, then in my opinion they slide further down the evolutionary ladder and become backward thinking oxygen thieves...

 

I agree with most of your opinion. I'm a workingclass boy, never look down at uneduated people. Also you can be educated in many ways. The Mokum people in Thailand are high educated in what they are doing, badjao, indians and eskimos same. We spoil their lifes, but that another topic. What I try to say before, is religious fanaticism, poverty and no knowledge (education) about whats going on in the world around you, means you are an easy offer for manipulation from outside. Money, food, some religious bla bla, you can come long way with that kind of people, that was my point. Sorry for my not so perfect english, happy eastern