Tsunami the aftermath

Q1. What are the problems faced in reponding to the disaster?

There were few problems in responding to the disaster and one of the most stood out to point out was the cultural difference. In the movie, the cultural difference issue was the ways in dealing with the closure of victims’ lives. The local monks who are Thai were burning the dead bodies because they see the body as a vessel and believe that it will prevent the spread of diseases. While the westerners believe that the identification of dead bodies has to be proceeded and reported to family then buried.

Moreover, the accessibility of the location where met the disaster was not easy. If the location was much easier to access, the rescue must have been proceeded much faster, easier and better with fully activate the rescue operations. Because of the accessibility of the location issue, it limited to have better responding to the disaster. 

Lastly, other problem was the fact that some of worse cases could be easily ignored, even it is about valuable humans’ lives due to the extreme loss and desperate situation with insufficient aids, resources and support compare to how much it is needed and how many tasks had to be dealt with, such as identification of victims and to reunite the lost family members.

Q2. What lessons can be learned from the disaster?

After watching the movie called “Tsunami : the aftermath”, I learnt the importance of prevention of any possible disaster which includes general knowledge about geography of citizens and the geographic study of the world by geographers at the same time.

First of all, the natural disasters are the accidents that naturally happen which cannot be handled by human. Then in order to minimize the damage would be to prevent well enough. For instance, the government should come up with any emergency backup plans for citizens who may suffer from the possible disaster.

The prevention includes that being aware of any disasters which are basically about geography. This means that people being educated about disasters as well as geographers developing the discovery on the geographical issues are important in order to prevent the disaster and minimize the damages.