How we look at the world

I don't often wax philisophical on my bog here (which is probably pretty evident by the fact that I used the words "wax philosophical") but this video coupled with a conversation I had earlier today just made me think. So often in America we take for granted the wealth that we have and many of us falsely assume that the rest of the world has it just as readily available as we do, or we realize that others have it worse but they live far away. Heck I've traveled a bit and I find myself at times falling into the same trap. Many times we just forget that even the poorest here in the United States are still probably among some of the wealthiest people in the world, or at least have more opportunities than most of the rest of the worlds residents. Not to lessen the plight of those who are in poverty here but there are alot of people in the world who have it far worse. This video that I stumbled upon does a great job I think of showing how big a gap there is between our way of life and the way of life of much the rest of the world. An additional plus is that Sarah McLachlan is the artist singing and she is darn cute :).