By THE CAPITAL EDITORIAL BOARD
By THE CAPITAL EDITORIAL BOARD
Published
01/09/05
HOW CAN you tell that you're living in a community? For one thing, people in a community help each other when there's a disaster. The outpouring of aid for the south Asian nations hit by the Dec. 26 tsunami is an argument that there really is such a thing as a "global community" - one of the best arguments that has come along for some time.
Much of this aid is being provided by governments, including our own. But much of it is a spontaneous outpouring from people who saw the images on television and read the stories in the newspapers and decided that they just had to do something.
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