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Next time you find yourself too focused on yourself, it may help out to remember some of the issues going on in the world:

Oppression - The act of using power or privilege at at the expense of others to control, enslave, disempower, marginalize, silence, and subordinate.

Stay Aware: www.oppression.org

Genocide - The deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group.

Stay Aware: www.aegistrust.org - Protection against genocide

Starvation - A severe reduction in vitamin, nutrient, and energy intake, and is the most extreme form of malnutrition. In humans, prolonged starvation (in excess of 1-2 months) causes permanent organ damage and, eventually, death. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, more than 25,000 people died of starvation every day in 2003, and as of 2001 to 2003, about 800 million people were chronically undernourished.

Stay Aware and Help: www.napsoc.org National Association for the Prevention of Starvation

Xenophobia - A fear or contempt of that which is foreign or unknown, especially of strangers or foreign people.

Stereotype - A simplified and/or standardized conception or image with specific meaning, often held in common by one group of people about another group. A stereotype can be a conventional and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image, based on the assumption that there are attributes that members of the other group hold in common.

Fascism - An authoritarian political ideology (generally tied to a mass movement) that considers the individual subordinate to the interests of the state, party or society as a whole. Fascists seek to forge a type of national unity, usually based on (but not limited to) ethnic, cultural, racial, and/or religious attributes.

Corruption - An organized, interdependent system in which part of the system is either not performing duties it was originally intended to, or performing them in an improper way, to the detriment of the system’s original purpose.

References: Wikipedia articles and non-profit resources.