Human Writes: Don’t we all need a world that offers hope and humanity?

Why do people hate the poor? Why do people find so many reasons to put down and degrade the most unfortunate and woe-begone among us?

Think of what you hear about the very poor, in particular migrant workers, refugees, asylum seekers. They are “dirty”, “smelly”, or even “rapists”, “thieves” and “animals”. Those are the very words I’ve heard recently in reference to immigrants and refugees in Malaysia, Europe and the United States. Racial prejudice partly explains the intolerance, but not entirely – how come we fawn over rich expats?