I didn't mention anything about racism. I'm just saying its a seeping generalisation which you say are based on YOUR observations.
The thing is, its completely and utterly incorrect in my opinion that other cultures respect life a lot less than white English people in the UK or the West in general. People in the Middle East, Africa or Asia would all have just as much sympathy for what happened to this poor child.
My uncle is a member of counter-terrorism unit. I have seen pictures and videos that would make your skin crawl. In fact, I still remember a picture of him standing over a corpse that had been blown to bits, and my uncle holding a Simpsons mug drinking tea. Now someone like you would say that is just sick. He clearly doesn't value human life as much as we do. Thing is, he would feel just as saddened as the rest of us hearing this news but circumstances are different abroad. We only 'value' life the way we do here is because we aren't surrounded by the nonsense other countries are. Why other countries are in such a state not necessarily a reflection of a reduced perception of value in a human life. Life doesn't operate in a vacuum.
If I were to make a sweeping statement I could say English people are a bunch of softies who talk about the value of human life yet scarcely any of them have encountered death in a real form. (I don't believe this by the way but I'm just highlighting the problem with generalisations).
The reason I think race came into question here, and I suspect Charlotte thinks the same, is that people want a reason to explain why it happened, an identifiable person affiliated with a certain group. It's human nature. Some call it racism but I don't know whether I would call it that. But it helps people comprehend what happened by blaming it on group of people supposedly completely different to us.