SHAMEFUL! The audacity to say *anything* when we can't even keep our children from fearing being shot in schools. They've clearly never seen the continued mourning. They've never been in Korea to witness it, not even once. There's no way they'd have said such crap if they could see it since they obviously refuse human compassion.
One of the most heartbreaking things I saw in my one visit to Seoul were loved ones of a student missing in the tragedy, asking for help to find her. It was a year and a half since the sinking.
Of course, Western media would like to point at tragedies like this and say "not us!" I felt the same way when watching how American media covered the so-called "war on drugs" in my home country, the Philippines, 'waged' by former president Duterte and resulting in the deaths of thousands of users, but none of those involved in the selling.
The coverage was a lot of "see, at least our country hasn't devolved into this" -- I guess they needed to feel good since Trump was doing his horror on the US, but constantly pointing out (not inaccurately) that this was a policy of a president a plurality of the country voted for, and suggesting the whole country wanted it (not really, no)...
For real! This is the biggest reason why Malaysians prefer not to be noticed on the world stage. Not that we are afraid, but we are fed up reading stupid hot takes about our country 😆
"The questioning of culture in situations like this is an easy way out. It's a way of "reporting" news to people who know little about other cultures and therefore won't question what has been written."
100% agree.
I'm always horrified by the theories some ... people have about disasters. Culture is a very lazy way of "explaining away" something. It shows a lack of understanding and deep ignorance about another country. There's also an undertone of superiority: "unlike these people, we're not like that".
Exactly this. It's a way of making themselves feel better about what they would've done in the same situation...which is probably little more than just panic.
SHAMEFUL! The audacity to say *anything* when we can't even keep our children from fearing being shot in schools. They've clearly never seen the continued mourning. They've never been in Korea to witness it, not even once. There's no way they'd have said such crap if they could see it since they obviously refuse human compassion.
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One of the most heartbreaking things I saw in my one visit to Seoul were loved ones of a student missing in the tragedy, asking for help to find her. It was a year and a half since the sinking.
Of course, Western media would like to point at tragedies like this and say "not us!" I felt the same way when watching how American media covered the so-called "war on drugs" in my home country, the Philippines, 'waged' by former president Duterte and resulting in the deaths of thousands of users, but none of those involved in the selling.
The coverage was a lot of "see, at least our country hasn't devolved into this" -- I guess they needed to feel good since Trump was doing his horror on the US, but constantly pointing out (not inaccurately) that this was a policy of a president a plurality of the country voted for, and suggesting the whole country wanted it (not really, no)...
...sigh.
For real! This is the biggest reason why Malaysians prefer not to be noticed on the world stage. Not that we are afraid, but we are fed up reading stupid hot takes about our country 😆
"The questioning of culture in situations like this is an easy way out. It's a way of "reporting" news to people who know little about other cultures and therefore won't question what has been written."
100% agree.
I'm always horrified by the theories some ... people have about disasters. Culture is a very lazy way of "explaining away" something. It shows a lack of understanding and deep ignorance about another country. There's also an undertone of superiority: "unlike these people, we're not like that".
Exactly this. It's a way of making themselves feel better about what they would've done in the same situation...which is probably little more than just panic.