Reported by the International Center / Xiao Youchen
▲ Fans rioted in Malang, East Java, Indonesia. (Photo / AP Authorization)
According to the South Korean media “Yonhap News Agency”, the latest figures of deaths and injuries in the Itaewon thrust accident to this morning (31), a total of 154 dead and 149 lightly injured, including 26 foreign victims. Some Taiwanese netizens pointed out that the mainstream media in various countries, including CNN, BBC and NHK, reported relevant news in the headlines, and discussions on major social media such as Twitter and Reddit were also very heated. But it also killed hundreds of people. The stampede to Indonesia 30 days ago killed 125 people, but international attention has been extremely low. The post sparked heated discussions among netizens.
▲ Riots at the stadium caused push and stampede accidents. (Photo / AP Authorization)
The netizen stressed through Dcard, “Indonesia’s stampede, doesn’t the international media seem to care that much?” Compared to the Itaewon incident, an uprising at a football match in Indonesia earlier this month triggered a stampede that killed 125 people and 180 injured, “hundreds of people were also killed and media attention. international was significantly less and discussion on social networking sites in Taiwan was much less than in the incident in South Korea. “
The netizen said bluntly that he has no intention of criticizing, but only hopes that Taiwan can learn from it. Only by continually improving its international visibility and speech power will more international friends pay attention when something goes wrong. “Only more people pay attention and more people care., So you have the opportunity to be willing to help out when Taiwan really needs it.”
As soon as the post came out, netizens left comments: “There are more Indonesians in Taiwan than Koreans, but they only care about Korea”, “Do you only know the hypocrisy of human beings now?” Did you learn about the Taiwanese double standard on day one? A group of whites is noisy in public places: wow, they are so healthy, they want to be themselves and they have to tolerate different cultures; a group from Southeast Asia is noisy in public places: low-level migrant workers ”.
Another netizen thought: “Taiwan generally respects Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, but discriminates more against Southeast Asia”, “Indonesia may have few public figures in Taiwan,” while there are more KOLs in Taiwan and South Korea “,” Because Taiwanese only care about the United States, Japan and South Korea “,” It’s like there have always been wars in the Middle East and Africa, but most people focus only on Ukraine and Russia. “