Quote:
Originally posted by Maru
Interesting point.
The Internet is a huge eye-opener. Many good discussions about controversial stuff. And maybe - just maybe - Americans will become more interested in how things are done elsewhere. An example: Comparisons between USA and Canada/Australia/Europe concerning guns, politics, distribution of wealth, education, health care, etc, etc.
|
It's interesting that everyone assumes:
1. Americans who don't like/agree with the way other countries do things, must be ignorant.
(I've lived in the UK and Australia, and I would NEVER want to live under their systems for guns, politics, distribution of wealth, education, health care, etc... ever again!)
2. That people living outside the US are somehow better informed and less influenced by their own media and provincial views than Americans are.
(heck, in Italy, 6 out of the 7 TV channels that broadcast news in the country are directly owned by the Prime minister personally. One man, Rupert Murdock, owns virutally ALL of the news sources in Australia, and he certainly has an agenda. The Royal Navy was so disgusted by the BBCs blatant slant, and refusal to cover stories about the war that didn't follow the BBCs views, that they stopped showing it on their ships)
The average citizen in the EU is born, raised, and dies within 30 miles of the same spot......but somehow, they AREN"T provincial?
The rest of the world needs to give everybody a break. The only reason that you think that the US is so ignorant and you're not is that we are held up to world view EVERY DAY. If the rest of the world population was scrutinized just a closely, you would find that ALL of the countries have ignorant, provincial, narrow-minded, uniformed, zenophobic people that make up a majority