US election blah blah blah... four more years blah blah blah... That election is everywhere and I think my head is going to explode if I hear anymore about it today. There are other things happening too, you know.
Yesterday I was visiting a Palestinian familie, that lives in Copenhagen. We were watching TV (they have 50 or 60 arabic channels!) and while we were doing that it was announced, that president Sheik Zayed of the United Arab Emirates had died, and soon it was top news on many of the channels. For my friends and for many other people from or in the Middle East that meant a lot, because Sheik Zayed was seen as a wise and generous leader and a friend of the Palestinian people. Most people in Denmark have never heard of him before and probably didn't pay any attention to the news of his death. I'm sure that goes for the rest of what we call the western world.
So, what's my point?
My point is, that there are huge differences between what is seen as important news from the view of people from one culture to people from another culture, who might live right next to each other. That means, that we often don't know anything about what is going on outside Europe and North America, and then when the shit hits the fan somewhere else on the planet, we go: What the fuck? Why are they doing that? Why was the fan started? And who threw that shit?
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