The Dark Shadow Shrine

embrace the darkness; that you may see the light nestled within it......

Friday, July 13, 2018

Rescue will remain etched in memory for the many acts of selflessness

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Useful well-known example on the topic of helping each other, cooperation, etc.

Those who just did the oral, hint hint!!!! 

Compared with places like Japan, where disaster response is largely government-led, countries like the Philippines, Bangladesh and Thailand rely on local communities and social networks. Such community-based, bottom-up resilience tends to be messier, but is probably a better measure of a society's resilience.

The kampung spirit that has eroded as a result of urbanization:
Villagers call on elders to check on them, readily share food with one another and help out at weddings and funerals, and at the local temples. "It is an old way of life that I remember from childhood, when people still lived in a real village culture, in a real community where people do take care of and look out for one another....This way of life has disappeared in most places, but in some pockets, you still have it. Remember that this (cave site) is remote."
Link also to ideas like how heroes are born in times of crisis; it takes a crisis to bind a divided nation together; how disasters bring out the best in mankind....