But there is a third realisation that appears to shape the perception of too many western journalists justifiably appalled at the defiling of Europe.
How can journalists film senes in battle fields? Do they use drones, or just simply film the victims after war
That war happens only to the poor and the uncivilised, not the well-off and stable.
Is there any Western powerful countries that gives political support to either side publicly?
These opinions were shaped, concertedly and over time, in order to justify inhumane and often violent policies passed to block people from entering European lands. For these policies to become accepted, their victims had to be portrayed as threatening and undeserving.
Justified harsh policies to immigrants
As the Ukrainian flag was projected on to Downing Street, the Home Office was hoisting up the drawbridge, posting on its website: “Ukrainian nationals in Ukraine (who aren’t immediate family members of British nationals normally living in Ukraine, or where the British national is living in the UK), are currently unable to make visa applications to visit, work, study or join family in the UK.”
There was initially strict laws against Ukraine refugees
Al Jazeera to CBS News, journalists were appalled that this was not happening in “Iraq or Afghanistan” but in a “relatively civilised European city.”
Many Western journalists write that the Ukraine conflict as more shocking because its victims are white people, Christian, European. Contrasting them with refugees from Iraq, Afghanistan, or Syria, showing a bias toward different type pf people.
How We Can Increase Helping
Do factors like age or cultural affect how the diffusion of responsibility impacts a person’s willingness to help?
Kitty Genovese’s murder, points out that there wasn’t a centralized 911 system that people could call to report emergencies in 1964. In other words, people may want to help
would the witness inaction rate have been lower if there is a emergency channel for people to report things existed at that time?
Does the Bystander Effect Always Occur?
The bystander effect reverses in dangerous situations，people seen other bystanders as potential support instead of reducing their own responsibility.
Does the Bystander Effect Always Occur?
The bystander effect reverses in dangerous situations，people view other bystanders as potential support instead of reducing their own responsibility.
In 1968, researchers John Darley and Bibb Latané published a famous study on diffusion of responsibility in emergency situations. In part, their study was conducted to better understand the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese, which had captured the public’s attention. When Kitty was attacked while walking home from work, The New York Times reported that dozens of people witnessed the attack, but didn’t take action to help Kitty.
Diffusion of responsibility directly affects everyday tasks like group projects
While people were shocked that so many people could have witnessed the event without doing something, Darley and Latané suspected that people might actually be less likely to take action when there are others present. According to the researchers, people may feel less of a sense of individual responsibility when other people who could also help are present. They may also assume that someone else has already taken action, especially if they can’t see how others have responded. In fact, one of the people who heard Kitty Genovese being attacked said that she assumed others had already reported what was happening.
Introduce to the core topic
In 1968, researchers John Darley and Bibb Latané published a famous study on diffusion of responsibility in emergency situations. In part, their study was conducted to better understand the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese, which had captured the public’s attention. When Kitty was attacked while walking home from work, The New York Times reported that dozens of people witnessed the attack, but didn’t take action to help Kitty.
Gives their study background
they were in groups of six—that is, when they thought there were four other people who could also report the seizure—they were less likely to get help: only 31% of participants reported the emergency while the seizure was happening, and only 62% reported it by the end of the experiment.
Group presence crushes individual action.
(85% of them went to go get help while the participant was still having the seizure,
85% helped when alone, 31% helped in groups