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.