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![prejudice: now you kno!
In 2002, Kenyan Masai tribespeople
donated 14 cows to to the US.
to help with the aftermath of 9/11.
the-treble
That was super nice of them.
And now I'm mad that nobody told us we were given cows. Cause that's really
f*cking nice and nobody mentioned it at all.
A obese-starving-artist
American media tends to disregard that anyone donates to the US. And then
Amurricans complain about money going abroad because "nobody helped the
US in our disasters."
Also, do you know how much a cow costs? 0.0
awesomonster
It isn't just a matter of how much a cow costs, its a matter of considering that
Masai life is based around their cattle. Its their wealth, their food, and a
significant part of their religion. Here's a quote from Wikipedia:
"Traditional Maasai lifestyle centres around their cattle which constitute their
primary source of food. The measure of a man's wealth is in terms of cattle and
children. A herd of 50 cattle is respectable, and the more children the better. A
man who has plenty of one but not the other is considered to be poor. 137) A
Maasai religious belief relates that God gave them all the cattle on earth,
leading to the belief that rustling cattle from other tribes is a matter of taking
back what is rightfully theirs, a practice that has become much less common.
[38]"
So its not just "they gave us 14 cows", its that they gave us something that is
very important and significant to them, it is more than just a kind gesture that
definitely deserves to be known and its a genuine shame that more people
don't know about it.
gweatherwax
Wait, you guys DON'T KNOW that we offer help to the
US when you have disasters???????
Shit, down here in Brazil we not only offered to send tracking units and doctors
to help in 9/11 but we wanted to send a whole lot of donations to help with
Katrina (we have experience with floods down here so we knew what kind of
medicine to send to prevent outbreaks).
We alone had like 2 army airplanes full of medicine and non-perishables like
baby formula, diapers, bottled water, mosquito nets and other stuff that's
needed to fight opportunistic diseases that hit flooded areas, enough to assist a
good few thousand people at least, ready to go the day after it hit, but your
government refused the donations.
The same thing happened to the Canadians and Europeans who offered help,
the US embassies around the world told us all to give money to Red Cross.
And so we did, we all gave hundreds of millions of dollars to them, and then
this happened:
Red Cross scandals tarnish relief efforts
"Breathtaking' Waste and Fraud in Hurricane Aid
So please, don't you go spreading misinformation and prejudice against the
rest of the world, WE DID OFFER HELP AND ORGANIZED IT EVEN FASTER
THAN BUSH DID, BUT Y'ALL REFUSED IT.
A randomthingsthatilike123
Oh wow I had no idea this happened it's really not talked about in media at all
wow this is something good to know about wow
jadedhavok
I'm so angry.
I didn't know that other countries tried to help after 9/11 or Katrina. Like, that's
something we, the people, should hear about and we don't.
Please don't blame us for the shitty decisions our government makes. We don't
have as much control over our government as we would like to think and they
keep a lot from us.
deadcatwithaflamethrower
Spread this shit.
natrsrants
After Katrina, Cuba donated several hundred blankets. Think about that. A
country that is suffering economically due directly to the US embargo offered to
help us when we needed it by sending what they could. And once again, it was
refused. We have a government that is so self-righteous that we refuse to
accept disaster aid in order to maintain this facade that we are the most
generous nation on earth.
disputedthreshermaw
Okay, Katrina thing.
Only Texans really knows this? and even then it's not wide spread.
Mexico sent their army.
They sent their army for relief efforts. Didn't call ahead, they drove all the way to
San Antonio with doctors and food and all sorts of supplies.
When people actually got a call from them saying "Hey, we're sending people
up."
The people who answered said "What? We can't."
"Too late, already there."
This was while the government was turning down help.
So yeah, other countries send relief.
Forest fires up in Washington last year? Firefighters from Australia came up to
assist.
Like.. we don't hear about this shit. At all.
mehofkirkwall
I can second the above with the fires.
Most the time, when people say "oh FEMA or something sent people right?" re:
fires, its actually people from other countries showing up and kinda ignoring the
government telling them to fuck off and staying on behalf of local departments
because we REALLY need them.
If there's a huge ass disaster, and the government is sitting there with a thumb
up it's ass, help is offered and most the time- shit, it gets there!
But then the feds do something really fucking dirty.
They insist they were the help, if it's talked about at all.
They insist those people putting out fires were federal people, because to most
people a fireman's a fireman. The people handing out water and food, a relief
worker is a relief worker. So on and so forth.
We had people come up when the fires were so bad a while ago- not the
Australians, but i think there was like a German group of like 3 guys that flew
themselves over? They came out of sheer "this is horrible and we're helping"
and my dad [local fire chief] had them working with our guys and the feds lost
no time telling every news outlet that it was THEIR people doing all the fire
knockdowns and structure work when these guys were running into buildings
and grabbing people, pets, and people's important documents because they
knew papers were a pain in the ass to replace.
What you gotta understand is that our government is very intent on selling us
and the rest of the world [as much as possible] the idea of a powerful and self
reliant country. All our reporting on disasters, starts with the scaremongering
and then moves to "but our people can handle it because we're the best at
handling things" and then they move on before the idea it's out of control
comes to mind. The average person outside of the disaster has no idea, if they
have never been around such an event or met someone who regularly deals
with these things, they will kinda probably nod along with that. Because we
have no real scope on the scale and impact- by design. Our media intake is
very controlled to slant everything to the "eh, we can handle it and everyone
else out there- they need our help because they're not so good at handling
disasters like we are."
People who know better, reading international news, interacting with
international social groups, looking outside their sphere of community- we
know better but that kinda slant is really hard to break from because of that grip
American media has on information.
So, taking that knowledge, we further have restricted reporting on certain
disasters because they're considered unimportant.
Hurricanes are considered important, earthquakes are only considered
important if it wrecks something the government cares about or somewhere a
couple million people live that they'll upset the national money flow/they can
throw money at someone to make the news care, floods are only important if
it's in a similar manner to earthquakes but since they occur annually they're
rarely reported on nationally, mudslides that kill people or leave hundreds
homeless aren't important to the government even through they happen
constantly, wildfires that consume most of the nation/continent each year
generally are unimportant until they consume a town or threaten a government
interest/money flow location.
Terrorist attacks are always important because people will talk about them.
So, when we do get help for any of the above, it's possible that most people
may have no idea about what's happened, let alone that help's been sent. Or if
people know something happened, the details are vague- the news don't care
to give the nitty gritty. You'll know something happened and people are
suffering and "gee, isn't it good you're not them" and then now the weather.
So, yeah, basically no one really knows we get help.
petitepenquin
International response to Hurricane Katrina:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina
We got HELLA help, but nobody really talks about it
evilelitest2
American Media really fails regularly
iammyfather
Hurricane Sandy, Quebec sends power line crews down to assist in restoring
power. California gets rid of water bombers due to budget cuts, Canada sends
theirs down to help fight wild fires. Amazing what living on the border and
having outside TV News does to your information flow.
cyanwrites
After Katrina, Denmark offered to donate water purification units so people
wouldn't get sick from drinking contaminated water, but the offer was declined.
A private Danish company built a mobile satellite phone booth and drove it
around the poor neighbourhoods in Mississippi and Louisiana so people could
call their families and insurance companies for free (apparently there was a
deadline for reporting damages but people couldn't call in because their mobile
phones were dead and landlines were down).
markingatlightspeed
American propaganda is not a thing of the past, nor is it a new thing. It has
been around forever, telling stories of exceptionalism and self-reliance while
our government tries its hardest to refuse the help of others and offer its own to
them, to try and force other nations onto their back foot and remain
aggressively benevolent in international matters, so that it can lord that shit over
them in negotiations and the media in general.
I guarantee you America would have a less jingoistic, less xenophobic
populace overall if this sort of information were actually reported to us. If we
weren't always fed the lie of helping the world without any gratitude or help in
return. If the media didn't present us as world police and instead as a part of the
community, as other countries try hard to include us as, then maybe Americans
would actually act like they're part of a fucking community.
But global citizens are hard to monger fear and distrust and xenophobia and
nationalism with. They're hard to control with propaganda and hate. They're
hard to keep ignorant and docile and saying "this is fine" while the empire
burns.
A lot of Americans wonder why our country is seen as a worldwide bully. Shit
like that, my friends. Shit like that Its hubris is seemingly limitless.
velocicrafter
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