Chile, how does it affect us?

The other day I was having a class named critical thinking and the teacher mentioned what happened in Chile and everyone started talking about dead and stuff like that. And how sad that they even had a 2 earthquake and it is true so many people are suffering and they need our help.

But there was this kid who said, "Well, I don´t care it doesn´t affect me" and everyone looked at him, some agreed with him and others said that he was insensitive but he is right, it doesn´t affect him or me directly but it is not totally true because we are all connected in some way.

The teacher answered him and told him that maybe it doesn´t affect you but maybe some Mexicans had family in Chile and it can also affect Mexico’s economy. That was the phrase that catches my attention. If Mexico had some exchange with Chile, know it would be strained because Chile needs to recover and maybe we don´t get the products we were getting from them.

Or maybe we still get them but at a higher price and who knows maybe that kid like some of the things they export and now he can´t get it. So it is all connected, if only country suffers all the others are going to suffer too, maybe not so evidently and ones more than others but in the end this is a proof that we do need to help each other because we are connected and what affects other in some way it is going to affect us.