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To my colleagues in Issues and Trends 6162, I read this blog and thought I would share it since we are talking about Child Poverty.




Should we care about people in other countries?

December 7, 2012
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Should we care just as much about people in other countries as we do about people in our own country?

When I was an elementary school student, my science teacher asked us to write about what I would do in the future with the money I earned. I wrote that I wanted to help poor African children by donating a portion of my wealth. After the class ended, the teacher took me to her office and scolded me for that assignment. She said I must not help foreigners because there are also poor people in this country. I rebutted her with two points: we should care about people in other countries for moral and rational grounds.
First, it is a moral thing to give aide to those who need it even if those are foreigners. All human beings have inalienable rights to enjoy their lives as long as their desires do not hurt others. Also, all human beings have an obligation to protect and support others’ inalienable rights since we are living in the same society, the globe. Japanese marry Russians and Africans become sons and daughters of French family. Nowadays, the borders between countries do not take an important role as they did in the past. We are all the citizens of this global village and thus we should help the neighbors.
Furthermore, caring for people in other nations eventually comes back to the giver’s nation. There are ten principles in economics and one of them states “trade makes everyone better off”. Financial aid between countries is a type of trade. Even if the volunteers do not work for any profit, it is a trade. For example, about fifty years ago, Korea was a developing country that received financial support from other countries. The government was unstable and the citizens could not afford a grain of rice. Whenever U.S. soldiers passed by villages, Koreans begged for a bar of chocolate or a piece of candy. However, Koreans worked desperately for decades to make Korean wealthy enough to give aid to those countries which helped Korea once. If one helps people in other countries, he or she will finally get the benefit soon or late.
In conclusion, helping foreigners as much as nationals is morally and economically desirable. The idea of caring about only nationals is an outdated, ignorant one. As old maxim suggests, what goes around comes back around. No good deed is worthless.

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