You are aghast when you discover that a specific tribal people are living in horrendous conditions in another country. How can the people who live there allow that, you wonder?
You forget, or perhaps are totally unaware, that people from that other country look on you and your country aghast, because of the living conditions of many people where you live too.
Yet, most residents of both countries go about their lives each day not thinking about the poverty and the overcrowding in a sector of their society. They are too busy living their own routines, and problems in their home countries are a vague headline in a newspaper. Perhaps the majority of the population even supports the way things are, as this is the way it has always been, and it is culturally acceptable. Or maybe many don't agree with the status quo, but don't know how they can change things as the problem is too immense, and surely the government needs to put things right, they think.
We tend to look on all residents of a country as the same, if we find out that atrocities happen there, yet most everyday people are doing the best they can in living from day to day.
What do you see as wrong in another country? Yet, what could you yourself be accused of, if a blanket generalisation was put over your country? And would this be fair to you?
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