Hidden Pride

Many people in the West insist on foreign intervention. Some even believe that a country that does not become involved in such intervention is a bad evil country. However, many who think this way fail to see how no sides of a conflict is completely innocent. These pro-intervention people argue that governments must help where possible, but fail to see that it is a matter between the parties involved in the conflict to resolve the conflict themselves as they are in the best possible position. In addition to this, such intervention may stir up more conflict and increase, not decrease social stability. Ultimately, seeing the need to intervention because one's own country can resolve such conflicts is based on the prideful belief that one is superior. This is why so many countries in the Africa and Asia, as well as the Middle East see the West as a cunning enemy, not a benevolent power.

Who can you Trust?

The people who can least be trusted as people who are treated nicely and with great esteem, but do not treat others like that. So, beware of who you are working with, in a relationship with and who you talk to regularly.The views and ideologies of an individual determined whether one will respect others. Those who hold individualistic ideologies or attitudes, such as the Jezebel spirit can not be trusted much, if at all. Anyone who falls into the snares of such a person should break free immediately.

The Pride in Helping the Marginalised

Some people help the marginalised, not out of genuine care and love for them, but out of pride. They feel sympathy for these marginalised groups and even guilty, for being in an "elite" position. Catherine Deveny, in the SBS series Go Back to Where You Came From, upon arrival in Afghanistan cries about how guilty she feels for being Australian. The thing is, that one cannot change their background. No one wants to be marginalised or oppressed. However, for some, it is their story of the past and present which cannot be changed. Thus, there is no point in feeling guilty for anyone who is marginalised as one's social or cultural status cannot be helped.

However, such as statement is made out of pride. It is the type of pride one feels for having more or faring better than others. It may not be malevolent, or even be of benevolent intentions, but it is inherently based on pride; it is condescension. This explains why so many in the Third World are extremely skeptical about aid from Western nations. The people of Third Word countries are all too familiar with the condescension shown by many Western aid organisations.This pride comes from being humans with a greater reason to be proud. When there is no greater reason to be proud, we tend to feel envious or jealous of those who fare better than us.

Helping the weak when one is strong makes one proud, but helping the strong when one is weaker makes one feel jealous.