earthquake

[JW.Frogen]

As to Haiti, this problem is not simply one of a natural disaster it is also a cultural disaster. 1989, San Francisco suffers a 7.0 earthquake, 40 people die. Haiti suffers a 7.0 earthquake and tens of thousands, maybe 200,000 people die. Why? Haitian culture.

Hatian society is riddled with violence, corruption, poverty (despite receiving more foreign aid than any nation in that region per capita) and has a culture that is fatalistic, stultified by barbaric religious practices and social violence endemic from top to bottom.

The Dominican Republic is on the same island, and while poor she has not suffered anywhere near as badly has Haiti, because she has a functioning civil society and a culture that functions other than in a manner of chronic helplessness and fatalistic despair.

Culture matters, and they are not all equal, at least not when it comes to survival or progress.
I do think we need to get as much aid as we can to save lives in Haiti, but when it comes to the rebuilding process there is no way in hell we should let the Haitian government or even the Haitian people control the money to rebuild.

The only thing that will bring any form of success in Haiti is to change their entire cultural paradigm through a form of neo colonialism, or let them wallow in a PC fantasy and die.