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People that are not used to poverty, civil wars, nature disaster, etc. are going to react badder than people used to it.
Just the 9/11... 3k people died. Big deal. Hey, there's as much people dieing months after months from disasters on the planet. Difference is americans just don't give a shit, except when it happens to them. Then medias make it so fucking big it's completely ridiculous.
I'm not saying what is happening with Katrina is a good thing, it's very sad for all the people in USA, but on the other end, you are perfectly right... imagine the north america in civil wars, natural disaster for a few years... we would go completely mad and people in Russia would look like angels.
Still, we love to judge them from our "rich" point of view.
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