blog entry published in our PE ( http://educacionfisicaiessabenageber.blogspot.com ) .
suppose these days you have seen the tragedy that has befallen one of the world's poorest countries: Haiti. An earthquake has stopped, for now, more than 50,000 people (approximately equivalent to Paterna whole) and is expected to there are between 100.000 and 200.000. Proportionally, this earthquake in Spain would mean the death of 1 million people.
If this is a tragedy, think the difference would be if this happened in a developed country like ours or one of the poorest in the world such as Haiti. Think of the population in the State. How can I return to "normal" after such,,, catastrophe? The country virtually destroyed. The capital in full. Miles dead in the streets without anyone to retire. Thousands disappeared and resources to search and / or rescue.
What? Well that is far away, and that distance makes us appreciate the tragedy much more attenuated, more blurred, almost like it was something important, yes, but we do not just worry.
And you will ask yourselves: What does this have to do on this blog from the subject of Physical Education? Well let's find a relationship! And if possible we Do all think about the magnitude of it and at the same time, how lucky we are to be where we are, to be born where we were born. And above all, appreciate everything you have (however slightly, especially now with these times of crisis).
We love the sport of the United Nations for many, right? We are enthusiasts of any team, any sport, any sport. Well, look at these figures:
Do you know how much is the minimum wage of a Haitian month? € 50! Is a English? 625 €! Thirteen times.
Do you know how much is the per capita income of Haiti (the money generated by a country within a year, which would put to each person if dealt)? 550 € (It ranks 153 of 182 of the International Monetary Fund's ranking). And per capita income of English? € 25,000! (It ranks 27 of the same list as Haiti): 45 times.
And now to our business, sport and physical activity. Do you know how much you earn Annually the highest paid athlete in the world (Tiger Woods)?: 90 million euros. € 247,000 per day. In one day earning the equivalent of the annual per capita income of 500 Haitians together.
"We add the earnings Tiger Woods, Ronaldo, Messi, Gasol, Nadal and Fernando Alonso together? 173 million per year! The equivalent to the annual per capita income of 315,000 Haitians together. 5 The same as 315.000!
These athletes have no guilt. They earn what they pay and what they generate, but we can serve to reflect on the magnitude of the tragedy. To reflect on some figures (the dead, those who had almost nothing to live and now will not have anything.) We care (and are glad) when our team does a superfichaje, or when a Fernando Alonso Ferrari tab. Let football ever.
When we see a football game on TV (or let us) pay among all the equivalent per capita income of 4,500 Haitians. That party, now sumad All matches a day, add, moreover, basketball, whatever you want. Think.
We can do nothing, yes. They would have lived so and us here, but if these are figures to make us reflect on our society, such tragedy,, imagine, now. Think.
Luck ours to be born where we were born, the power spent 15 € for an evening of film, you can buy a good (or beautiful) sneakers, the power buy a ticket to a football game or tennis or Formula 1.
Or just to have an Internet connection to read this.
Think
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