Gaining a perspective on the refugee crisis

The following are from the comments section of a video criticizing refugees in Europe.

“These people are sub human,” read one actual comment.

“They haven’t fully evolved from apes yet,” another commenter replied.

I honestly couldn’t believe what I was reading. Is this really how some people regard their fellow human beings?

In reading through that comments section, I sensed an underlying current of one emotion: fear. Faced with a sudden influx of people you don’t know, whose culture you don’t understand and whose lives are in some ways very different from your own, it’s easy to succumb to fear.

Click here for eye-opening online experiences you can check out to gain a perspective on things.

This entry was posted in Humanitarian Aid, International Cooperation, Philanthropy by Grant Montgomery.