Rab,

Most Americans seem to have a congenital inability to understand, or even recognize the existence of, other cultures and other modes of thought.

Christianlib;

 do you know most Americans? There are over 300,000,000  of us.  Have you met everyone?   Have you met  and cared for your neighbor?

 This horror in the Middle East and Africa is a human problem.  There are a couple BILLION of folk living on that end of the planet, know those? 

 Over 6 billion folk. over all.

Neighbors, friends, family.   So what if culture and religion is different, so what?

 We all have to breathe, eat, drink, poop and live gently and for some odd reason we,(humans),  arn't, over really stuck reasons.

 So what are you doing?   No need to brag, simply make ones' life easier, quietly.  I can't travel that far yet I do hold my neighborhood close.

Politics and all.

Dar

Jan 29, 2011 -- 12:01PM, darcamani wrote:

Christianlib;

 do you know most Americans? There are over 300,000,000  of us.  Have you met everyone?   Have you met  and cared for your neighbor?

 This horror in the Middle East and Africa is a human problem.  There are a couple BILLION of folk living on that end of the planet, know those? 

 Over 6 billion folk. over all.

Neighbors, friends, family.   So what if culture and religion is different, so what?

 We all have to breathe, eat, drink, poop and live gently and for some odd reason we,(humans),  arn't, over really stuck reasons.

 So what are you doing?   No need to brag, simply make ones' life easier, quietly.  I can't travel that far yet I do hold my neighborhood close.

Politics and all.

Dar

I don't know what has upset you.  My point was/is, we very much need to care about those (now) 7 Billion people.  All of them.  Not just the ones who politically, religiously, or economically happen to "line up" with Americans.

AND, if you read and listen to "America", you can see that that willingness is missing in many of our fellow citizens.

And, no, I don't "know" all 300,000,000 Americans, but I DO know a representative sample, and read an even larger sample, and that, just like Opinion Polling, makes my opinion statistically valid.  Only if YOU happen to "know" all 300,000,000 would you be in a position to lecture me about that.

Now Jordon is exploding also

english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/20...

I have to assume they would do this if they could in Saudi Arabia, but they can't....yet.

It is a very delicate time for that part of the world and I see these countries as very vunerable right now, I just really hope and pray for the best.

Karma mentioned technology and the uprising which is true, Twitter and other social media have been very key in this pan-arab revolution.  Many say it would not have happened without it. 

Jan 29, 2011 -- 9:24AM, rabello wrote:

40% of the Egyptian people live under the poverty level -- which is not "middle class."

If this is written in reaction to my post: you seem not to have followed the events in Tunisia very closely, is all I can say to that, rabello. People don't take to the streets out of poverty. The poor are used to being poor. The Tunisian revolution was carried by an educated population layer, which saw its privileges, prospects and prosperity threatened by a dead crust of political clay that made upward social mobility a far-away dream. These people don't want their life chances stifled by yet another decade of dictatorship.