So this is a post I began writing about a week ago and wasn't sure whether or not I should post it, but here it goes:

In my last post I talked about my observance of the animosity between many Asian countries. One of the very few good things (perhaps the only good thing) to come out the earthquake in Japan is that it has seemed to show people of other countries that the Japanese are humans just like themselves. Japan is not very well-regarded country in Asia. Many people in China and South Korea have ill feelings towards Japan due to historical conflicts. Vietnam also has bad history with Japan. However, I'm glad to be hearing news of China and South Korea's government sending aid and even more glad that I'm hearing that many Chinese citizens have shown sympathy for the victims. Here in Vietnam, there also seems to be sympathy for the victims. On the Vietnam news the other day, they showed pictures of the disaster with a some melodramatic soft-rock song. It was admittedly kind of cheesy but at the same time it at showed sympathy.  Maybe when this disaster is over people will go back to hating each other but I hope not.  I hope people continue to see each other on a human level. That goes for the U.S. as well. Maybe because the United States is far away from Japan it is easy for people there to think of the disaster as something unreal or fictional which has perhaps lead to the bad jokes and/or simply unsympathetic comments. Of course there are many other citizens that have been very supportive. Anyway, I'm not sure what more to say on this other than continue to pray for and support our fellow human beings in Japan and all over the world.