I have found another article from World Magazine entitled, Riots Against Reality. Just recently the students and workers of France have been on protest because of the plan in place that is suppose to help France get out of its possible $44 billion shortfall. President Sarkozy has proposed raising the retirement age from 60 to 62 which caused weeks of protests. Apparently, France's European neighbors have gone through financial crisis and their reactions were not the same. Britain is $243 billion in debt and is implimenting a plan to decrease 131 billion dollars in 5 years with the cost of 490,000 jobs by 2015.
From a psychological perspective, it is interesting to note the reasons why France has acted differently to their financial crisis than the other European countries. Did France protest because they didnt agree with the plan implimented or was it a reaction to their anxiety of possibly going into serious debt? What makes people hold onto their ways and not move into a direction to be rid of debt- has France been in reality with their debt crisis? do they believe everything will be fine by only protesting and not moving forward with a solution?
These questions raise the point that there can be two groups of people going through a similar crisis and yet react differently. I believe it has something to do with each groups worldview. What one believes comes out and this is especially evident when a crisis comes into reality.
I believe that cultural background plays a huge role in the reaction that both a group of people and individual person has to a crisis. Take for example the events of 9/11/01, this crisis caused widespread grief, saddness and anger. It also caused Americans to unite in ways that had not been expirenced in a long time. A terrorist attack in the US is recieved very different then one in a counrty such as Iraq. In some senses these counrties, deal with terrorist threats and attacks on a daily basis. Therefore their reaction is different. The culture that they live produces an effect sometimes completely opposite then another culture.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, we have embraced debt as our heritage and we are crushed by the burden of it. The world system does not provide an insight into financial enslavement, hence innocent people buy into it, and eventually mortgage their future. It is time to face realities and teach the future generation how to protect themselves against financial enslavement that leaves people unhappy, hurting, and keep them working without hope. Understand this that there is no retirement but rehirement.
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