Sunday, January 02, 2005

HAPPY OUTCOMES

If you needed anything more to prove that people love happy endings, there's the article today about how 10 foreign tourists survived the tsunami on an island. Every day the death toll races up another ten thousand or so faceless Indonesians, but ten white people luck out on an island, and it's news. No doubt someone already has a movie of the week in the works.

We want happy endings for people like us. We want Saving Private Lynch. We want stories about a few people we can understand. The grand sweep of events, well, as one of the OJ jurors said about the DNA evidence, "That's hard." Hard to grasp.

10:51 AM

1 Comments:

Good grief!

I've been keeping up with news reports and have seen dozens of stories about all people who survived. Most recently I read of an indonesian man (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4147937.stm) who survived at sea on floating branches, by drinking coconut milk to survive. He'd been at sea for days. That story got plenty of attention and he isn't white.

In fact the larger story that's gotten all this attention centers on a part of the world where most are not caucasian North American/European people.

By  Anonymous, at 11:58 AM  

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