Fwd: [Reader-list] A child's view

[Frederic Madre]

>From: Aditya Nigam <aditya at sarai.net> (by way of Monica Narula)
>Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:48:14 +0530
>
>I am sending a piece that a friend's daughter wrote for her school
>assignment. This is a 12-year old's comment.
>Aditya
>
>THE AMERICA TRAGEDY AND WHAT I THINK ABOUT IT
>
>WRITTEN BY SHANA BULHAN HAYDOCK
>
>CLASS 6-B
>
>I think that tragedy came after fights, fights came after wanting more and
>more - - - - It all started because nobody is happy with what they have.
>Everyone wants more. Some people are very rich and don't care if others are
>very poor. There is no balance. That is called Capitalism.
>
>Another thing: some people don't allow other people to live in their
>country because they believe in something else. Some people couldn't bear
>with different people, such as Hitler, who killed off most of the Jews.
>People cannot live with each other and bear with the differences of the
>other people. They buy guns and weapons from people who sell them. They
>kill the people they don't like.
>
>USA is one country which has a government that wishes to become more and
>more powerful. They wage war on other countries because they wish to have
>more, more, more! And then attacks come upon them. And they vow to strike
>back! Why can't they just sit down and realise that they killed so many
>people, they cause heartbroken families to strike back. Why can't everybody
>realise that violence, killings, murder - - - it's all very brutal and
>horrid. If nobody would kill nobody, that would mean peace. Peace - - - - -
>that's what hundreds, thousands of people really, actually want. Why can't
>everybody set aside their differences and love each other? Peace makes us
>happy. Hearing about capitalism, violence, innocent people dying, that
>makes us unhappy. If any person could live in any country they choose, then
>there would be no fighting for strips of land like in the case of Israel
>and Palestine.
>
>And anyway, what's the use of getting more and more? You just want even
>more! What's the use of becoming powerful? Others start to hate you.
>Therefore, if everybody had the same amount of everything, and could try to
>control their longing for more and more, then this never would have
>happened, I believe.
>
>
>
>Aditya Nigam
>Fellow, The Sarai Programme
>Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
>29 Rajpur Road
>Delhi-110054
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