Who Do You Think You Are?

When you think of a humanitarian, you think of someone with a bleeding heart, or someone who really cares for the well-being of others. However, when you really think about what does a humanitarian mean, you might find that a true one is a lot colder and harsher, then what we originally have seen with other humanitarians.

Championing the issues that surround refugees, that sounds a like a humanitarian cause. However, what if it’s not to champion them, but rather the people who don’t want them? While it might seem strange, what if the humanitarian saw it fit to help that type of human being?

Humanitarian, doesn’t really mean that you champion just anybody who seems a stereotypical cause. As the world goes, we might just seem different types of humanitarians. For a true humanitarian, is one who does things for the good of humanity. Furthermore, the dictionary goes on to say that a humanitarian, is someone who tries to make humans happy.

It is rather ambiguous isn’t it? Make humans happy, make humans welfare better.

However, what we see in most cases, is that humanitarians, only seem interested in the plight of those that they deem in third world countries, or needing a home. Whatever it is, you see humanitarians as people who try and fix problems with aid, with making people who they deem in need of help.

But as said before, a humanitarian, is someone who helps humans, and tries to make them happy. The humanitarians of today, aren’t really doing that. They are bias, because they only help those of a certain kind. They only seem to provide aid for those that scream and yell the loudest. Technically, the humanitarians that we see in this life, they have failed their cause. They have failed because a lot of the times they are only catering for only certain type of people. Or whenever when they say help these humans, they are upsetting another set of humans.

Meaning how are they really fulfilling their cause? Isn’t their cause to help as many humans. Isn’t their cause to help any human and not just economical refugees, not just people in third world countries? Furthermore, if their purpose is to help humans, shouldn’t it mean that if they help one human they don’t hurt another human?

Yes, this might seem strange, but if a humanitarian is really a true humanitarian, they will help anyone, and do anything for the greater good for all mankind and womankind. Meaning in theory, they wouldn’t be just someone who sends aid, in the form of food, but force to make things better for humanity.

We may have been trained to see only one type of aid to a group of humans, but if we did see a different type of the stereotypical one, what would we call them? A humanitarian, is a very broad meaning, and the ones we see wearing the UN uniform aren’t just the only humanitarians or those that help third world countries. There are others, and there are many, because a humanitarian, is just someone who helps humanity, not just one type or need, but anything and anyone.