Who Do You Help When Everyone Needs It?

    Throughout the course of learning about Korea, the underlying theme that kept appearing was that there are a lot of issues in North Korea at the moment.  Before I learned about Korea, if famine, dehydration and homelessness was ever brought up I would instantly think of Africa because that is what I associated with those things. After learning about events like the floods of Korea, the Ryongchong train crash, and Camp 14 in North Korea, I not only realized how many issues there are in North Korea alone, but also planet earth in a whole.  There are issues all over the world, in Europe, The Middle East, Asia, South America, Africa and even the United States of America.  There are so many issues in just The United States just alone.  Here are some facts about poverty and hunger in The United States http://feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/hunger-facts/hunger-and-poverty-statistics.aspx# 

   It is a well known fact that American's have the most power out of any other country in the world, so people expect us to be helping other countries.  When we do not help those other people in need, we use the excuse that, "We have enough problems of our own".  But this is not just the United States.  This is planet earth in a whole.  People rarely help others who are not their own kind.  There is so much hate in this world and it's a, "Dog eat dog world".  What do these phrases even mean?  That people who are different from you will never help you?  That you are supposed to hurt other people before they hurt you?  This historical lifestyle of not helping other people needs to be put to an end, but where do we even start?  It is not only The United States of America that has a large amount of power.  There are many countries in Europe, Asia and South America that are doing very well, and could easily lend a helping hand to those who are in need.  No one country will ever be able to fix even a percentile of the amount of struggles happening across this planet, so we all need to join together to make a change.  There are already groups like the NRA that do similar things to help, but there is not enough support behind these groups of people to actually make a difference.  

    Throughout the course of learning about Korea, I have learned so much about Korea in itself.  I have gained much knowledge about current events and past events, and have learned so much about the cultures of both North and South Korea.  Although the studying of this country helped me gain a lot of knowledge about the country itself, it has given me a deeper understanding of the world in a whole.  You cannot go through life without opening your eyes to other places aside from America, and, "The Boulder Bubble".  Studying about North and South Korea has given me something that I thought was impossible to gain through an LA/History project.  It has given me a deeper understanding of life in a whole, and that is something that we should all search for throughout the course of our lives on planet earth.