american
disasters
are
not
more
important
than
other
disasters
as a non-US-ian I get the impression from the news media and the like that a disaster in the US is just SO MUCH MORE TERRIBLE than anywhere else in the world - why? - because it happened to americans??...
almost 100 people die *each day* in Iraq and other places through terrorist bombings, some are american troops and civilians but most not... why is the world not shattered and dismayed by this?
the day after 9/11, 10 000 people were either killed or made homeless in India through an earthquake, but did anybody even so much as notice much less care?
thousands die each day through hunger, disease and war in Africa - do we notice?...
what about the 2004 tsunami - 300 000 dead but because they weren't americans, it doesn't matter so much? I see very little of a US led recovery in this area - is that because this area isn't useful (eg oil) to the US in some way?
I personally think that the people of the US (and this is not a personal attack on any particular US-ian but just an observation in general) need to realise that while the US *is* the most powerful and important economic nation in the world - the vast majority of the world does not think as you do nor perceive issues as you do.
Other nations and people have very different ideas and concepts of the way things are meant to be and that the sooner the US gov't and the people of the US realise and accept that, rather than try to force the US idealogy and foreign policy (which is basically aimed at making sure the US stays at the top of things) upon others then the better things might be overall.
*dismounts from soapbox and hustings*
