I stopped into a gas station, and the worker, who is Indian, made a comment that shook me. He said USians are spoiled and don’t appreciate how good we have it, and that’s why everyone wants to come here (not the shock), and I said, "yeah but you don’t hear about our kinds of crime, in China, Vietnam, etc.

And he said because people don’t report it, because of family honor, not just sex crimes. So people end up dead or simply missing, because these crimes aren’t reported. And I thought about that for hours, because some vague something bugged me. Finally I realized, and as much as it is reported, here, it’s still underreported, for the same reason. And not just that, but also because the same family members who protect family honor are the same ones trafficking their family and inducing them into crime, drug dealing, stealing unnecessarily or worse, taking the rap for the rotten family members, who won’t even bail them out of jail. And we’re so blinded by our own wounds, we don’t even see it, right under our noses.