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why if something happens in the us its huge but anywhere else no one cares?
so ive wondered this for a long time but im asking this just cause i think its weird. like seriously probably 90% of the world knows about 9/11 and 3000 people died. but hiroshima and nagasaki (the first places a nuke dropped) 250,000 people died and probably not that many people know about it. and the boston bombing 3 people died and it was an international story. and then how bout the spanish flu pandemic do you think if i walked up to a random person they would know about that and it killed 50 million people!
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- senlinLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
9/11 and Boston are recent occurrences. Hiroshima and the Spanish flu occurred before most people were born. So the impact is much greater for things that happen in your lifetime. That said, the U.S. is a world power, so people pay attention to what happens there a lot more than, say, what happens in Belgium. But it can be a bit illusory if you live in the U.S. It seems like the whole world is paying attention to everything that goes on there, but lots of time that is not the case.
