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I don't think it is about guilt per-se. I think MTV (or whoever made it) tried to create an image Americans could relate to. Few people in the West lose sleep over the millions dying in the Third World because it is hard to relate to people who live so far away and have such a radically different culture. By comparing the casualties there to those in our own back yard, we may get a better idea of the magnetude of the suffering there. After all, the '800 million' people dying of famine are just numbers, but we are made to see the almost three thousand people that died at 9/11 as individuals. Dreaming, breathing, thinking people with families and jobs. When we realise that people in the Third World are much the same, it might give us a whole new perspective on their problems.
[ 09-21-2005, 10:26 AM: Message edited by: Dreamer128 ]
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