When you arrive at a certain level it's very easy to say yes: that is the moment to learn to say no.
We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami.
The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.