QueenZone discussion #455639

veronica58 wrote: American ego-culture? Are you serious? I'm a Polish immigrant to this country and I have never seen people more generous. Contrary to popular belief, the streets of America are not paved in gold.

veronica58 wrote: It seems like the money that is being donated to the victims of the tsunami is more about outdoing the other country than doing something good. I can't believe that people actually say that the U.S. hasn't given enough... It also pisses me off when I see celebrities asking people to donate money, I don't understand why they don't just give away their own damn money, when some of the movie stars make 20 million a picture... So I guess this is just a topic with me saying I'm disgusted with the way the money is talked about during this disaster.

veronica58 wrote: It seems like the money that is being donated to the victims of the tsunami is more about outdoing the other country than doing something good. I can't believe that people actually say that the U.S. hasn't given enough... It also pisses me off when I see celebrities asking people to donate money, I don't understand why they don't just give away their own damn money, when some of the movie stars make 20 million a picture... So I guess this is just a topic with me saying I'm disgusted with the way the money is talked about during this disaster.

Miss James wrote: I don't find it too surprising that your friend from Holland prefers his own country to another...

Mr.Jingles79 wrote: Mir@cle... I want to remind you that not all of us here in America are narrow minded, right-wing nuts, superficial, selfish, greedy, arrogant, and ultra-conservative. The majority of people here is very concerned about the tsunami, and we feel this tragedy as our own because we haven't seen so much humanitarian effort to help those in need since 9/11. Of course there's always morons like Bill O'Reilly (see my previous post) who don't give a flying shit about how many people have died in any tragedy of this kind on foreign nations, and probably think that the tsunami was nothing but a punishment from God against non-christian and muslim majority nations. For all that people like him think, it was good to wipe some poverty out of the face of the earth. Yet again, there's only a very few percentage of people who think this way. Everyone else is very concerned about this issue, and want to help in anyway they can. And yes, things like that are possible in America. In fact, George Clooney among other celebrities are organizing a telethon to raise money for the tsunami victims. That just to mention that particular event, because many Americans poor and rich, old and young, have put an effort into raising money for the tsunami cause. Besides, why should this be a competition between who donates more or less. It's all about a great cause.

Sonja wrote: I see it from a completely different point of view actually... First of all, I think it's great to see how all the countries are able to stick together in this case. It shows that there's still humanity on earth and that we ARE able to collaborate, although it's sad that it takes more than 150.000 deaths and mass destruction until this works... I don't think that America is not giving enough money, but compared to other countries like Australia, England, Germany, etc they are giving relatively little money considering that America is supposed to be "the most powerful country in the world" and has a bigger population and more money than these other countries. What annoys me more, is that America spends Millions or Billions on a stupid and useless war and when it comes to such a disaster they won't give more than 350 mio dollars. It does look like a kind of competition between the countries... like...which country gives more, which country's the best and most helpful, etc... But the money is needed urgently. What are these countries in South Asia supposed to do? They've lost everything. And all the money that's been given and promised so far won't be enough yet to build up the countries again. Celebreties: they DO give away their own money. Of course that's a good opportunity to promote themselves, but why not if it helps? I prefer to see them promoting themselves by asking people to donate money instead of making stupid advertising for drinks or cosmetics!

The Mir@cle wrote: It's the arrogance of Bush and his colleagues that created the worlds aversion towards the USA. Those men are representing your country, so it’s not weird that our opinions are formed by them.