Jan Oskar Hansen Poet Prose Poetry

Intolerance

Our Lack of Tolerance 
The culture difference between Portugal and Norway are sometimes 
baffling, like seeing a tribe of Ciganos waiting for one of their own 
often for the day with their offspring running around and they, the children 
are surprisingly clean. This would not have been tolerated at a hospital
say,  in Norway, the police would come and the social people too taking 
the children away... all for the best but for whom?  Well children have to 
go to school and so on, we measure our  standards with theirs, who think 
we are callous sending our old people to homes. It appears the Portuguese 
believe that benign neglect is a good solution. 

But this western standard of behaviour goes deeper it is the reason we
meddle with tribe wars in the Middle East wanting the people there to be nice 
democrats like us. It is like an inverted Midas touch, everything we touch end 
in bloodshed and humanitarian help programs.  And we continue to supply
 weaponry to both the warring sides.

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