Word: neighborism
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...cold, cramped apartment in central China, Valori Morrison gathered her six daughters around her and quietly began explaining the week's biblical lesson. The scripture she had carefully written out in both English and Chinese was taped to the dingy wall: "It was said, you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you." It was, she thought, one of the most important lessons that Hannah, Victoria, Esther, Loice, Mary and Charity could learn. It was also the only thing that...
...must fend for themselves, struggling to survive. The trauma of losing parents is compounded by the burden of becoming a breadwinner. Most orphans sink into penury, drop out of school, suffer malnutrition, ostracism, psychic distress. Their makeshift households scramble to live on pitiful handouts--from overstretched relatives, a kind neighbor, a state grant--or they beg and steal in the streets. The orphans' present desperation forecloses a brighter future. "They hardly ever succeed in having a life," says Siphelile Kaseke, 22, a counselor at an AIDS orphans' camp near Bulawayo. Without education, girls fall into prostitution, and older boys migrate...
Here and in scattered homesteads all over rural Africa, the dying people say the sickness afflicting their families and neighbors is just the familiar consequence of their eternal poverty. Or it is the work of witchcraft. You have done something bad and have been bewitched. Your neighbor's jealousy has invaded you. You have not appeased the spirits of your ancestors, and they have cursed you. Some in South Africa believe the disease was introduced by the white population as a way to control black Africans after the end of apartheid...
...slippery slope of course soon led straight to hell, and I knew I hit bottom last weekend when I for the first time downloaded an entire album, "Penthouse," by Luna. It was then (although maybe it was because my neighbor saw me listening to that godawful "Bonnie and Clyde" song) that I knew I had a moral problem...
...thought, well that's pretty lame. I think about sex all the time, and while I've never destroyed an orchard there have been a couple of times I thought about knocking down my neighbor's ugly apple tree. It just rubbed me the wrong...