Switch on CNN .Everyday they acquaint us with the miseries and wretchedness and poverty of many less privileged people around the world. Strangely the ratio of interest in those news increases with respect to the factors as country, religion, occupation, etc.
If there is a sense of equality among the people everywhere and people stop offending or defending in the name of patriotism, the news would have moved the heart of most of the normal people. Lots of people strive for food in Africa, plane crashed and people died in Brazil, soldiers and innocent civilians die every day in the Middle East, deluge deprives many of their homes in India and the miseries continue to elate. Most of it catch our attention when it poses some threat to us in one way or the other -if the misery involve someone from one’s country, caste, religion, working class ,etc… thus goes the prioritizing factor.
X: 30 people are feared dead in last week’s bomb-blast
Y: That’s terrible. Were there any Hindus in it?
How would you perceive such a comment? Who do you blame for such a response?
If there is a sense of equality among the people everywhere and people stop offending or defending in the name of patriotism, the news would have moved the heart of most of the normal people. Lots of people strive for food in Africa, plane crashed and people died in Brazil, soldiers and innocent civilians die every day in the Middle East, deluge deprives many of their homes in India and the miseries continue to elate. Most of it catch our attention when it poses some threat to us in one way or the other -if the misery involve someone from one’s country, caste, religion, working class ,etc… thus goes the prioritizing factor.
X: 30 people are feared dead in last week’s bomb-blast
Y: That’s terrible. Were there any Hindus in it?
How would you perceive such a comment? Who do you blame for such a response?
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