Question

In 2015, more than 130 people were killed in Paris by terrorists linked to the Islamic State. Reaction was intense and world-wide. Yet, a day before, ISIS terrorists killed dozens of people in Beirut, Lebanon and much of the world paid little attention. Do you think ethnicity and nationalist figures in to the way people define a social problem?

Note: The answer should be a paragraph form.

Answer 1

Beirut has been the site where there would be deadly attacks, but this is the land which seems highly forgotten. The ISIS has been actively involved in devastating Beirut. Though, the sympathy received by Paris was nowhere close in magnitude as compared the importance given to Beirut. There were one click framed on Facebook for the users, depicting France, but there was no such thing for Beirut. Lebanese people say that when the people of their country died there was not a single person mourning for them, and their deaths were irrelevant. It has been complained on and off that the lives of Arab people matter less than the lives of the French people. This had become one of the deadliest places where bombings would occur on a regular basis. Though, this difference in reaction showed that the sense sense of region is important to be highlighted as being sensitive. As opposed to the reaction received by Syria, the conflict in Beirut is not even talked about.

Many people keep blaming the news channels for the lower coverage received, but people tend to forget that the sense of politics drives the news and the sense of politics is not interested in Beirut and its attacks, because, people are not important to the political leaders.