Why should we care about what happens elsewhere?

Current affairs are the events that happen all over the world, be it a royal wedding or the death of a terrorist. But the question now arises: are all these important to us? After all, we are not actually participants in any of these events. So how would keeping up with current affairs help us in any way? The answer to it is simple. No matter where in the world we are, or where the event is happening, we are affected by it and by knowing and understanding it, we can get a better understanding of the world, and then adapt to it.

Firstly, natural disasters that happen all around the world can affect us because if there happened to be an earthquake somewhere in China, its economy would come to a halt, and thus it would effect our trade with them. Natural disasters are unpredictable, and with it comes thousands of people dead or hurt. In order to support the people, the country's economy would slow down to a halt to use the resources in helping to support the wounded or help in rescue missions. This would affect us as our economy would also be affected due to the fact that the country would not be doing business at that period of time.

Secondly, what happens around us technologically can affect us. Technology now is a very important aspect of society, and a lot of things rely on modern technology. If some kind of great new invention were to be created in a country far off, it could help to improve our efficiency of our work or could largely benefit the way people work with technology. Take for example the Apple company's release of the iPhone. The iPhone was a big jump forward for technology, and helped people to work faster and better using smartphone technology. Therefore all of this can affect us through improving the technology world and helping us.

Finally, what happens to other countries largely affects us too. If there was to be a rebellion in a country, like what is happening currently in Libya, the country would not be stable and there would be a lot of changing of rules and would result in the country changing their policy and governments. This would also lead to other countries near there to be affected and could even lead to more and more countries starting rebellions!

Therefore it is important to care about what happens in other countries as no matter what it is, we are always affected in one way or another.