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Western media loves reporting on instances of rape, murder in India, China even though statistics reveal they are lower per capita than in the West. Hegemony i
by person_of_color 8y ago
Western media loves reporting on instances of rape, murder in India, China even though statistics reveal they are lower per capita than in the West. Hegemony in action.
- icebraining 8y agoThe western media also loves to report instances of rape and murder in the West.
- illuminati1911 8y agoThis. I moved to to Shanghai from North Europe and while there are dangers here in the traffic, food safety etc. violence is not one of them. The violent crime here and in China in general from western point of view is almost non-exisistent.
- Markoff 8y agoi will rather take my chances with violent crimes in west than with pollution affecting everyone, accidents affecting everyone, subpar ingredients in restaurants affecting everyone etc
- mb_72 8y agoOr is is that such crimes are under-reported by the state-controlled media? Or that statistics for such crimes cannot be easily located, or at all? Someone else has posted on this thread stating they couldn't find relevant statistics easily. What you are saying may well be correct, it just seems that it's hard to verify with hard information.
- cbhl 8y agoMurders are under-reported in the mass-media in America because it would make for boring news. Imagine, day after day, the news saying, "and another 47 people were murdered today in America, including 13 in Chicago, and 4 each in Baltimore and Houston". While the homicide rate in the United States is dropping, there were still ~17000 of them in 2016.
- jessaustin 8y agoWhen you put it like that, it doesn't seem so bad? Less than half the number of car crash fatalities, anyway. Past a certain age, we're more likely to die from any number of different health reasons...
- philliphaydon 8y agoExcept in India it’s quite high and most go unreported.
- person_of_color 8y agoIt's 10x lower than the West. Do you think the number being unreported accounts for that order of magnitude?
- philliphaydon 8y agoHigher than the 'West' being what? In regards to 'intentional homicide'. America? Sure it's lower... UK, Australia, NZ? Nope it's higher. What about rape? Yup lower than America, again, but still higher than UK, Australia, NZ, etc. The 'west' isn't JUST America. But India is a country where honor killing, and the caste system are outlawed, yet, honor killing and discrimination by caste still exists outside of major cities.
- platinumrad 8y agoThe Atlantic is an American publication. As is the New York Times, which also has a front page story crowing about this boycott.
- dis-sys 8y ago> UK, Australia, NZ? Nope it's higher. I feel much safer now after moving back to Shanghai from Sydney. There is no shooting in Shanghai whatsoever, but that seem to be pretty common in the western part of Sydney. Melbourne is now on another completely different level, you have gangs attacking each other using grenade. One thing I really like is the fact that I can safely walk on any street of Shanghai at 1:00am and without the fear to be attacked or robbed, I won't be stupid enough to do that in Sydney or Melbourne.
- JimmyAustin 8y agoI think you've been listening a little to much to Peter Dutton.
- odiroot 8y agoI have to agree regarding China. Admittedly I only spent there 6 weeks (an the country is naturally enormous and diverse) but I've seen less shady situations than in any of Western EU countries I vacationed in. Most Chinese people I know feel much safer in their homeland than in the west. Funnily enough some of them even prefer eastern parts of Europe for the same reason.