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Anti-American Views Special on PBS Last Night
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05/09/2007 12:19:12
 
 
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There you go again with all that Right Wing Fox News Rush Limbaugh Dick Cheney stuff. Next you are going to claim we shouldn't let the French vote in our elections or let the UN command our troops!

Come to think of it ... I never have seen you and Karl Rove in the room at the same time and he is known to be a master of disguise ...

I for one am grateful to PBS for raising the burning question of how can we make everyone love us and probing the mind of Homme on the Rue. (especially the Children - I have it on good authority - HRC - that they are our future (if somewhat high maintenance - we really don't have enough villages ... ) )

>Did anyone else see this? It was very enlightening and interesting...
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>http://www.pbs.org/weta/crossroads/about/show_anti-americans.html
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>One very interesting section was an activity done at a local school in France. They asked gradeschool students to draw a picture about America and explain it to the class. The pictures ranged from soldiers killing children and destroying the world to George Bush in charge of oil and McDonals ruling the world. One Asian child wrote the English alphabet on her paper and stated that 70 or 90% (can't recall exactly except that it was at least 70% and I was shocked she believed it) of Americans do not know the ABCs and cannot read.
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>Also interesting was the idea some French intellectuals had that only blue collar workers voted for Bush. We know from the numbers and demographics that isn't true. Also, the intellectuals honestly believed that Kerry's education far surpassed Bush Jr - not true either.
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>The views of the Polish were very interesting. Supposedly, most Poles consider America their Big Brother and a good brother at that. Sort of like a wealthy relative and a strong protector always on their side. They knew though that most Americans probably don't view Poland as a little brother.
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>Also, pretty much the entire world considers all Americans to be ignorant of the rest of the world. That is not true either. It is however, a perception perpetuated by the media overseas.
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>I guess the media everywhere controls world perception!
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>I find it also interesting (and a little humorous) that most Britains consider they are responsible for America and take credit for our successes. Funny that they don't feel responsible for our failures :o)


Charles Hankey

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin

Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
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