Dear Editor
Canada has for many generations been a European country with a Canadian outlook. It was something else before that and perhaps something even before that. What it will be in the future is anyone's guess.
Consequently, when a European country like Ukraine is in trouble, Canadian citizens feel they must help.
When Romeo Dallaire tried to warn the world there would be bloodshed in Rwanda did Canadian citizens say we must help? Not that I can recall. More recently, Ethiopians are fleeing a cruel regime. Are Canadian citizens saying we must help?
On the other hand, I don't think the citizens of Africa or India are rallying to help Ukraine.
In Canada in recent years there are people, some sell-meaning, some trying to be self-righteous, pointing fingers and crying, "racist."
My point is that the whole world is racist, always has been and probably always will be. We don't walk in any shoes but our own when it comes to nations, to countries.
Of course there are humanitarian groups which do kind and vital work where they can all over the world. Someone reading this could well belong to one of them.
Meanwhile, I'd be interested to know if anyone things as I do on the situation. Do we only go all out to help people in another country when they are like us?
Christine Pike
Waseca
