Lack Of Tolerance Poem by Jan Oskar Hansen

Our Lack of Tolerance
The culture difference between Portugal and Norway are sometimes
baffling, like seeing a tribe of Ciganos waiting for one of their own
often for day with their offspring running around and they, the children
are surprisingly clean. This would not have been tolerated at a hospital
say, in Norway, the police would come and the social people too taking
the children away... all for the best but for whom? Well children have to
go to school and so on, we measure our standards with theirs, who think
we are callous sending our old people to homes. It appears the Portuguese
believe that benign neglect is a good solution.
But this western standard of behaviour goes deeper it is the reason we
meddle with tribe wars in the Middle East wanting the people there to be nice
democrats like us. It is like an inverted Midas touch, everything we touch end
in bloodshed and humanitarian help programs. And we continue to supply
weaponry to both the warring sides.