Donating for the Tsunami victims

The population of the United Kingdom is 60 million. I'm sure the vast majority of those 60 million people can afford to part with ten pounds. If 60 million people donate 10 pounds then that's 0.6 billion pounds collected, which at the current exchange rate is over a billion dollars.

The population of the United States is around 300 million. Again. most of those people can afford to part with ten dollars. If everyone in the US donates 10 dollars that would be 3 billion dollars total.

So our running total is now 4 billion dollars US

Canada's population is 32 million people. With every Canadian donating 10 Canadian dollars then that's 0.32 billion Canadian dollars, or at the current exchange rate, a quarter of a billion US dollars.

4.25 Billion US dollars.

Japan has a population exceeding 125 million people. A thousand yes is worth around about 10 US dollars, so a donation of 1000 yen from everyone in Japan would equate to 1 and a quarter billion dollars.

5 and a half billion dollars.

And so far our governments have donated a paltry few million here an there to the people of the countries devastated by the tsunami.

The figures clearly show that if we all pull our weight we can do far better than our governments have so far.

(Population figures taken from wikipedia.org, exchange rates from xe.com)

Considering from some of the radical opinions I've read here, I just can't believe that we're living within the same planet, the same world.  And it's even more difficult to believe that such people have grown up and been educated in the 1st world.

Actually, you guys are not different from us in the sense of mankind.  You were just lucky enough to be born in the 1st world.

Anyway, I don't take these rather-selfish opinions so serious.  Instead, I rather have a pity on those who wrote it.  Pity for the better chance they have been given in their live. They never take advantage of the chance they've got to widen their point of view nor broaden their mind.  It proves totally useless.

And I'm glad to be the citizen in one of the so-called 3rd world countries here.  Because, at least, it enables me to learn how to share and contribute to the others, the priceless lesson that some of you will never have a least opportunity to learn, in spite of all the money you've got.

I have nothing to preach here because it wouldn't make any difference to you guys, like the restless wind blowing against the mountain that would never change or be affected.

You wouldn't know how hard things go here except that you were born here, standing and witnessing the same experience as we do.

In your next life, you might be born here. Only then will you learn the true meaning of humanity.