Word.
Appreciating problems as they exist locally is completely necessary before hoping for change anywhere, but on a place like the internet where information is pooled and presented in a global, virtual dimension, when conversations aren't located in a certain specific space, I feel that they drift just as easily as the bits and bytes through which they are relayed...
Considering that it's the capital stormclouds, dark with culpability for global warming, hovering over the PRC, to which the factory owners rain dance; the hidden upper-stratosphere of racism and indifference which lend the storm strength, it would seem almost as if the skill of 'westerners' for picking out these injustices elsewhere comes from an intimate knowledge of injustice at home.
Hope that's precisely vague enough to avoid any filtering going on... on either sides of the oceans.