To me, humanitarian action and politics are two separate issues. I can't see those people, especially children in the quake area dying and do nothing. Anyway, thanks for letting me know what you think. I may not agree with you but I respect your opinion.

看了toronto star 的留言，看来China has enough resources to look after their own是当地大多数人的想法

中立地想一想，中国近几年给外界的印象确实是国力发展迅速，资源充足。去中国的外国人一般都去了繁华的大城市，很少有去边远山区的，他们怎么会了解占中国绝大多数的农民和城市平民的困窘生活（问问我们自己，又有多少真正体验过山区农民的生活？）。正如我那位土耳其同事所言，发生这样的大灾难时承担苦难的大多是穷人，而这些人却偏偏是被中国和西方的主流媒体忽略的人。

再中立地想一想，如果有人问，既然贫富差距那样悬殊，为什么中国的富人们不拿出钱来救济本国的穷人？国际人道救援资金短缺为什么不该用于更贫穷的国家？－－我不知该如何应答。更不用说其中牵扯到豆腐渣工程贪污腐败等敏感问题。。

身在海外的游子们心系祖国，除了捐款没法做到更多，所以心里很急。但国际救援确实只是道义不是责任，楼主得到的那个response我可以理解。

尽管如此，我昨天发信前犹豫了一下还是发了。。。

"Your reply gave a deep chill to my heart. Did you realize what you are saying? Let's put it in a more close to home simple analogy:

You disapprove the way your neighbour runs his house, especially the way he treats his children. You talked to him a few times and tried to make him doing what you think are right. He ignored you. Now his house is on fire. The children are trapped inside crying for help. You looked out of the window and decided: "I don't like his attitude when I talked to him in the past. Plus, I think he's got enough money to rebuild the house after the fire. And the fire truck is on their way too. Now I am going back to my beer and hockey game now."

I don't think this would be your response. Whether you lend your hand to China or not, I appreciate you take the time to reply.

本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛When you see people standing in front of Walmart for donation, you must remember that they are all in uniform, with badges. The reason is that they are trying hard to identify themselve as an organization, to claim that the donation is an organizational behaviour, not private. But the decision still is yours. Since the people ask for donation work for an organization, they donot react to your choice personally.

When we email people at work for this matter, first of all, we consider those people who you have chosen special, then, we had an expectation from them. When they responded differently to our expectation, we might take it personally. Results discribed in many emails have shown the dispointment, disbelieving and getting hurt. that is why it is not the way to do it.

I do what I believe the right thing to do. If one believes what I believe one might have donated, if not, I respect individual's decision. To maximize donation we must present ourselve with an organization, well use media to carry our voice over the society. You may recall that you have seen or heard donation commercial on newspaper or in air every other day. That is the way to it, in my opinion.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net