Why is there so much hate toward America?
By Don Tagala, ABS-CBN North America News Bureau
Posted at 04/19/2013 10:59 AM | Updated as of 04/19/2013 10:59 AM
BOSTON– The 9-11 attacks and the Boston bombings left many people wondering, why is there so much hate toward America?
When some people in Boston were asked this question, just days after Monday’s deadly marathon bombings, many said a simple answer cannot be offered.
“It’s so much bigger than just America, I’m proud to be an American but I think people are forgetting what it is to be human, and it’s a responsibility, I think it’s just sad that we’re not living up to living that responsibility,” said Boston student Catherine McParland.
Boston Marathon runner Colin McClaine said, “The United States has been involved in a lot of different conflicts. I don’t know, I don’t have any answers for that one, I don’t know what the reasons are.”
Nathan Hortono, a Singaporean student who is based in Boston, said, “I don’t think it’s against America personally, I think they’re just from really bad people that wanna hurt a lot of people, it’s not like what America has done but what people are becoming.”
Meantime, Filipino-American Herminio Ocampos and his family were among those who said a little prayer at a makeshift memorial site at the Boston Commons. The Guam native said, tragedies like this can be terrifying, especially for families with children.
“Absolutely, especially with children, mainly because one of the children from what I understand was 8 years old, it was a fatal accident for him, I’ve always been concerned of large crowds and big public events like that but I don’t think that that should stop anybody from pursuing their freedom,” Ocampos said.
Nineteen-year-old student Catherine Mcparland said terrorism has been a byword in America, but it was only after it hit close to home did she feel its visceral impact.
“We grew up with the words terrorism and everything in our vocabulary and it never really scared me or made an impact to me until this happened,” McParland said, “I made a sign that I hung up there that says Generation Peace. I think there’s such an absence of it.”
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