Seventeen British nationals including children are dead or missing in Israel after attacks by Palestinian militant group Hamas.
The BBC has cited an official source, after the previous estimate from the weekend’s attack was originally placed at “more than 10”.
Only a few names have been confirmed among the deceased, including 20-year-old Nathanel Young, who had been a serving solider with the Israeli Defence Forces.
I feel horrible for these victims, but can we stop counting people from specific countries like that makes it more important? People DIED, it doesn’t matter where they’re from.
“Today 300 people died”
“Ok”
“One was white and from your country”
“REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-”
I get where you are coming from, but I think this in part is done so people don’t just ignore it all. Not on our land, what do we care sort of thinking. Not saying I like that this would be needed to bring it closer to home for others, but that I can see that it would for some. We saw it with 9/11 as well as I would see other countries talk about how many they lost that day. Or when a plane goes down.
I remember reading some article on Reddit some years ago where the author had some calculation on how much a foreigner’s life was worth compared to an American. But that’s all I remember.
I think we even see it regionally as well, not just country to country. Oh that happened 8 hours from me even if it was in my own state, vs oh that happened 10 minutes from where I live. People tend to take more notice when it hits closer to home.
Assuming this website is based in the UK (.uk), it’s pretty common to report things based on how it relates to the country it’s based from. Just like any other country’s news bodies would highlight any of its citizens that were involved.
I agree. That’s the issue, though.
I don’t see how helping people to connect tragedies to their own environment and their own people is an issue
To me, that seems incredibly narcissistic.
I think it’s worth continuing because it puts pressure on these governments to decry the events. Its real easy for a government to stay quiet on these issues when it’s foreign citizens killing other foreign citizens. Its much harder when your own countries people are killed and your just pretending nothing happened or trying to avoid discussing it.
Maybe because details matter to a story? Shows the scope of the conflict and will affect how the world responds.