I just lost my drain of thought

Sharon Stone, though she apologized for it later, recently implied that the SiChuan earthquake was caused by karma, because the Chinese were “not nice” to her good friend, the Dalai Lama. I’m pretty sure natural disasters don’t come around just because a large group of people isn’t nice to someone, otherwise a freak hurricane would’ve swept up most of America for criticizing Sharon Stone’s fashion sense and crappy movies.

I have personally been to SiChuan and there are descendants of people from Tibet there, too, in case you didn’t know, Sharon Stone. The Dalai Lama is a peaceful man and I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t wish an 8.0 earthquake on anyone–not his own people, not anyone–especially not a group of people who did nothing to deserve it. Is it wrong that he was exiled from his own home? Yes. And is it wrong that the government gives Han Chinese people economic incentives for moving into Tibet and making the culture there obsolete? Again, yes. But the Chinese population isn’t the culprit here, the government is.

So due to her comment, there has been a ban on her movies implemented in many of the theaters in major cities in China, which, according to the article is more of a blessing. At least people have a better excuse not to watch her movies now other than the fact that they aren’t very good.

Anyway, I never got around to writing about the earthquake, but it’s really devastating. SiChuan is a beautiful place with people who live rather simply but enjoy food that I swear was fermented in fire because just smelling it makes me cry a little. Oh, and I was once attacked by little kids on a hillside in SiChuan near the Jiu Zhai Gou area when my family and I went up the hill to put up prayer flags, because I had a Hello Kitty keychain hanging off my backpack, but that doesn’t really have anything to do with anything besides that it was kind of funny. I digress. SiChuan is not a very rich province overall, so this earthquake is really, really tragic and more than 5 million people are without a home because of it. So if you can, donate some money to help them out, or even better yet, for those who can and are extremely ambitious, go over there and do something!

PS Speaking of bans on people implemented by China, did you know Brad Pitt is banned from China for being in the film Seven Years in Tibet?