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and vanities of our ruling classes to be nothing but empty boasts.This natural calamity, if anything, should make it clear to all of us that beneath all the differences we create in our minds there is our common humanity.The tourists, the celebrities, the people of the coastal regions of all the affected countries were as one against the rushing wall of water.In a world grown smaller, it makes less and less sense to talk about religious and racial differences.Hopefully, the tsunami will wake us up.
From the Swedish boy left orphaned to the mother in India who cried
"why has the Almighty taken my girl away from me?" we are as one in our suffering.
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