Should a country’s first responsibility be to help its own citizens or to help people in need around the world?

From my perspective, a country's first responsibility, whether to take care of its people or to help other foreigner in need, depends on how wealthy that country is.

On one hand, If the country is a developing one, it should spend most of their resources on helping its own citizens. This is because if the country doesn't take care of its own citizens, it will risk loosing its people and without people, the country will fall. For instance, countries in Africa should develop more policies that benefit the food resource of its citizens since one of the main problem that many Africans are currently facing is starvation and if those countries focus on giving international aids, it would evidently go against impoving the lives of citizens, the people that they are supposed to protect in order to have a flourishing nation.

One the other hand, if the country in question is a developed country, it should be more responsible to other people around the world as well as helping its own citizen. When its citizens's lives meets all criterias of security and chances for developments and they still have budgets, it should lend its hand to other underprivileged countries as well. This is because fundamentally, eventhough people from other sides of the world can be seperated by race, gender, cultures and many other criterias, they have one similarity which is they are all human and therefore, deserve rights that are equal to people in developed countries too. This not only helps developing countries as developed countries can also gain many benefits too. For example, if there's international aid for countries such as Vietnam, the country can use it to upgrade its most significant products, which are rice and coffee in Vietnam's case, to trade with other developed countries.

In conclusion, the priority of a country have always been depended on how that country could benefit and because every country is different in terms of wealth, the responsibility would also be different too.