To benchmark yourself - do you appreciate their perspective? If so, then you know about this so very popular movie in Turkey:
Valley of the Wolves Iraq
Actual news was reported internationally; but I heard nothing about it in mainstream America where such reports back then would have been regarded with anti-American contempt. Simply a benchmark for measuring your "perspectives".
{Postscript - 'you' is not Aliantha. "You" is the lurker.}