The external affair minister of India, Mr Jaishankar, recently excoriated a European politician over Indians handling of Ukraine. He said 'Europe needs to get past the mentality that Europe's problems are the world's problems, while the world's problems are not Europes problems '.
And this is where that attitude comes from
India has dealt with genocides at its borders in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and yet most Europeans and Americans have no idea. The United States of America criticized India for helping Bangladesh during it's Pakistan sponsored genocide, and actually understood military action against India to protect Pakistan's ability to slaughter Bangladeshis.
Again, in Sri Lanka, no one cared
Yet the moment India undertakes it's strategic interests regarding cheap Russian oil, suddenly the whole world starts pointing fingers
There's a lot that goes on in Asia that is simply not reported. If you read American media it's almost like that part of the world doesn't exist
Somewhat related and tangential, there’s this concept/subreddit of “it’s always the same map” [1] where basically some counties/regions have most/neutral coverage (US/Canada, Western Europe, Australia, Japan mainly), some have limited/biased coverage (India, China, Russia maybe), and many (mainly Africa or smaller Asia/Oceania countries) have none at all. An earthquake in some pacific island killed 150? Never heard of it. Two dead in a school shooting in Arizona? Straight to Reddit’s frontpage.
Mind you, I’m not saying deaths anywhere are good of course - but the reporting is terribly biased in a way that many may not even realize, especially if you live in one of those “western” countries and primarily consume English media/news. Heck, just look at what is commonly considered “core countries” [2]?
I grew up in the US and considered myself relatively worldly and educated, and when I started visiting Sri Lanka and India and reading papers published there and so on, when I heard US press discuss news from India or Sri Lanka, I was really shocked at the deep level of general ignorance; and I am not talking Fox here but NPR and Washington Post.
The shocking part to me is that Indian news is usually conducted in English so it's not even inaccessible. It's written by English speakers for English speakers, yet everyone seems mystified at what goes on in the subcontinent
Like I get why people find it difficult to understand Mandarin. But this is English news we're talking about ...
If you want the CCP propaganda in English, you have plenty of material out there I think, you don't even need those trivial to use machine translators.
The external affair minister of India, Mr Jaishankar, recently excoriated a European politician over Indians handling of Ukraine. He said 'Europe needs to get past the mentality that Europe's problems are the world's problems, while the world's problems are not Europes problems '.
And this is where that attitude comes from
India has dealt with genocides at its borders in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and yet most Europeans and Americans have no idea. The United States of America criticized India for helping Bangladesh during it's Pakistan sponsored genocide, and actually understood military action against India to protect Pakistan's ability to slaughter Bangladeshis.
Again, in Sri Lanka, no one cared
Yet the moment India undertakes it's strategic interests regarding cheap Russian oil, suddenly the whole world starts pointing fingers
There's a lot that goes on in Asia that is simply not reported. If you read American media it's almost like that part of the world doesn't exist