Tenemos la fortuna de vivir en una porción del planeta en la que muchos de esos horrores han sido minimizados e incluso erradicados  … o así lo parece.
Vivimos en lo que desde fuera se llama genéricamente Occidente, un grupo de países sometidos al imperio de la ley, sin guerras en su territorio, comprometidos con la lucha contra las desigualdades sociales, que hemos alcanzado el sueño de la sanidad y la educación para todos, que hemos logrado una notable redistribución de la riqueza, etc…

Este Occidente no es igual en Estados Unidos que en Europa, en Australia que en Japón, pero sin duda ofrece un perfil que, pese a sus imperfecciones, desde otros lugares delmundo puede parecer deseable, incluso envidiable. O terriblemente odioso, pues paramuchos habitantes de nuestro planeta Occidente es el resultado de un proceso histórico en el que ellos han sido los explotados y nosotros los beneficiados

Those eternal problems are war, hunger, epidemics, incredible –because of the miserable- life conditions of million of people, slavery, operation of lots by a few,… A catalogue of  horrors that comes to us from the beginning of humanity and which hasn’t ended in almost none place on Earth in spite of technical, economic, politic and social progress.

We are lucky to live in a portion of the planet in which many of those horrors have been diminished and even eradicated… or so it seems.

We live in what it is called from the outside Occident, a group of countries put under the law empire, without wars in its territory, compromised with the fight against social inequality, who have reach the sanity and universal education dream, who have obtained a remarkable wealth redistribution, etc…

This Occident isn’t equal in the USA that in Europe, in Australia than in Japan, but for sure it offers a profile that, in spite of its imperfections, from other parts of the world can seem desirable, even enviable. Or terribly hateful, because for many inhabitants of our planet Occident is the result of a historical process in which they have been operated and we have been beneficiaries