Consider how China and its citizenry are mobilizing and providing the support network to take care of those rendered homeless by the Sichuan Earthquake.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24849101
Compare how the U.S. government and its relief agency, FEMA, and America's citizenry are coping with the aftermath of the Katrina and Rita hurricanes and its aftermath post-2005 after the flooding of New Orleans and the devastation left behind America's southern Gold Coast.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24861652