Thomas La Grua's Asia University Blog

Wealth Inequality and my Responsibility as a Global Citizen According to,    inequality.org : “Wealth inequality can be described as the unequal distribution of assets within a population.” For example: “The United States exhibits wider disparities of wealth between rich and poor than any other major developed nation.” Accordingly, if we expand this definition to all of humanity, we might simply say that, wealth inequality is the unequal distribution of assets (represented by the distribution of money) within and throughout all of humanity. Why is this a problem, you ask? Because the  distribution of assets  within humanity as a consequence of humans relationships to everything – as a represented by the distribution of money within humanity – also happens to represent the consequential outflow of all that has ever been wrong within and as mankind since the beginning of time. Have a look: what does the distribution of money represent but a race that’s gone in the wrong or opposit

The reason I've titled this “A Wonderful Summer Vacation” is because I came away from the experience with a sense of wonderment. How could I have enjoyed myself so much on a trip that I took not for myself but for the sake of others? Arriving at Dulles International airport, I was soon greeted by my oldest sister, Trish and my younger brother Paul's wife, Cassie. At the airport and for the entire time I was on vacation, I was, dare I say happy with a sense of wonderment at how warm and friendly everyone seemed in relation to one another and me. By the time we got back from the airport to my brother Jim's house, most of the family members that had gathered for our reunion were at Dan's house. Both Jim and houses are huge, but Jim's is like a mansion with a huge grass lawn in the front and one in the back that also has a slow-flowing river that is filled with trout and ideal for swimming, kayaking and canoeing. Inside of Jim's house, it looks like a m

Each human is one person of humanity, one person of earth; therefore, each one of us as one of the whole is  equally-as-one  responsible for the whole of humanity as well as the whole of earth.  Unfortunately, far  too few of us seem willing or able to take responsibility as equal persons or percentages of the whole. As  the condition of earth and humanity continues to spiral downward,  w e still place competition (in fear loosing) ahead what is best for all of humanity. Why is it that when someone waves a colored flag of war, we jump to fight, kill and die for our rights to be culturally different, but show us the reality of starvation, deforestation, dead oceans, and a dying planet and we simply change our videos or chat lines so as to remain ignorant in favor of the illusion that everything is fine? As we are the ones that make up the whole of humanity, who else but us is able to change humanity, save our planet in order to save ourselves? Solving the problems on