Last edited by j2k4; 04-18-2008 at 09:00 PM.
"Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."
-Mark Twain
No. Why change the habit of a lifetime?
The best way to keep a secret:- Tell everyone not to tell anyone.
Are you saying that the US should be allowed to act like an arsehole because there are bigger arseholes around the world?
.Political correctness is based on the principle that it's possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
You have to wonder, who are the pollsters talking to when they "discover" that North Korea is viewed more favorably than the USA?
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Well, a few things sort of leap out at me:
Auntie Beeb is in charge, so the poll must be a fair, pure, and representative (our British friends insist that this is so, after all), and the 34 countries polled (I admit I have no idea which countries were included) gave the United States a failing grade, as compared (most notably) to China and North Korea.
Now, though the BBC cannot be cast as adhering to the British government's allied stance (remember - the government throws the funding into the Beeb's playpen, then turns a blind eye) one can, without undue charity, assume the BBC knows how to conduct a proper poll, which in turn means that a great majority of those polled who expressed disdain for the U.S. expressed substantially less of same for North Korea and China.
For starters I'd like someone to reconcile (however symbolically) these two, umm, positions...
"Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."
-Mark Twain
This article takes for a fact that every person on the world thinks like an average american. That having a fast food restaurant nearby and a wide variety of channels on your tv is the most important thing in life. Oh,yeah,and a dental plan.
So important that it's imperative to invade a country and totally destroy the government,position yourself over oil wells and leave the country in shambles,so that a million ppl died since. Because of the dental plan,sure. Worlds oral hygiene is US #1 priority.
Article's biased,and that's an understatement.
Of course not. Their perspective is controlled by what they see and what they don't, and in most cases their only outlook is the media. It might as well be high school... did you care about what everyone who didn't know you thought about you in school?
We could make all the great decisions we wanted, but even doing this couldn't dictate people's perceptions of us. It's not a battle worth fighting, either.
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