We have a depressingly tribal response to disasters not in the UK.
More worryingly I think it's just non white countries that don't any attention.
We are sympathetic when it's Australia, U.S.A, or pretty much anywhere else in Europe.
Anything happens in Africa or the Middle East it isn't mentioned. Why is that?
That's a truly ridiculous & deluded thing to say. How many hundreds of millions have been donated by the British people to famine relief/natural disasters etc in Africa, for starters?
That's not really the point B2R was making, though. The media see and report deaths in different ways: I think it's largely regulated by distance, hence we view fatal flooding in China quite differently from fatal flooding in the Lake District. But there's clear evidence that we 'care' more about deaths in the UK, followed by deaths in close European countries, then deaths in the USA, New Zealand and Australia, then deaths in the Asian and Pacific countries and finally deaths in Africa. In other words, how much footage and space is given over to deaths in the media is determined by proximity, then by race.
It's so obvious comics use jokes which feature lines about terrible disasters, but fortunately 'no British were there'.
Now you're right about the money donated by people for famine relief, but - again - the available evidence suggests the most money comes from the fewest people, and they seem largely to comprise white, middle-aged women and churchgoers.