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What I remember of the Kobe earthquake in 1995 are images on the news of people complaining that the government wasn't responding to the their needs fast enough. They kept asking "where is the aid, where is the government".
That is what I saw. People standing or sitting, waiting to be helped. Was it the whole story? I'm sure it wasn't. But that was the image over, and over, on the TV.
When I saw pictures of earthquakes in other parts of the world I saw common people digging others out by hand and with no government help.
In the less civilized, and less sedate, parts of the world people depend on themselves and there neighbors. The loss of that is saddening.
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