the Hypocrisy of the "Foreigner Premium"
It is funny how sometimes a news item becomes a big one when it hits some sort of threshold. A couple of recent ones comes to mind. One was the confirmation of the first Ebola patient in Texas, and all the sudden all major international news outlet treat the event as an "escalation" of the disease as it is no longer confined to some poor African nations. The other is a viral campaign by a Norwegian NGO that faked a wedding of a preteen to a 37-year-old. The faked event caused an outrage in ways, as predicted by the NGO, in ways thousands of similar (and real) instances of it goes unnoticed in Africa and South Asia.