“If you leave meat for a tiger, he’ll eat it and be full today but he’ll die tomorrow”. I used to think this was a silly saying back then, when dad would instill constant moral lessons during his hours of lectures across the dinner table. It’s one of many sayings that he would make me wonder endlessly about through my grade school years. Now that I think about it, maybe he really meant to point to the reality I later now have learned about the Lao and charitable giving to the community. How and why do the Lao choose to give? Have a ‘sue kwan’ blessing for your first born and the Lao will come in droves. Your aunts, uncles, cousins and cousin’s cousins will shower you with lump sums of money and food. Have a fundraiser for a charitable cause like say, UXO removal, and maybe one or two Lao will show up with a few bucks to donate here and there. Beyond the excuse of being constantly broke, it’s the current reality of …