I don't think problems become more real the more people have them. I'm happily chauvinistic. Most people's problems are self inflicted anyway. A million self inflicted wounded can die outside the hospital for the sake of one accidental injured. I don't care.
A weird corrolary is that I am not strongly anti prejudice because it's wrong from first principles but because when it is wrong it is a form of self injury that demands equal treatment to real injury