Global Open Space project

[Artur Silva]

--- chris macrae <wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk> wrote:
> There's another problem and I am going to be blunt
> because 10 non-US
> people have stated it to me almost the same way in
> the last 7 days.
> Today, we see the United States as not United but 2
> different countries;
> largely speaking the Red middle that doesn't travel
> abroad and the Blue
> coasts do; the Red Middle to the extent that it has
> ideas of the world
> beyond America's borders is largely conditioned by a
> tv media that is so
> local that as one CNN broadcaster explained our
> policy is not to
> announce anything in the news in a way that might
> cause a viewer to
> switch the channel; that is number one editing
> criterion - yes thanks
> for explaining that!
>
>  We ten unrepresentative but international people
> would rather the
> United States really got to know its own identity
> (patriotic egotism)
> problem before it offered us even one more global
> solution. For most of
> my life we have looked up to the US for ideas on
> global solutions; at
> the moment the 10 of us are in no such mood to value
> a US view just
> because it is US more than any other view, in fact
> perhaps its time for
> reverse discrimination. Perhaps 'ignoring' US views
> as if they don't
> exist while they are so often without of our
> contexts is the only way
> 5.8 billion people have left when .2 billion people
> vote for their own
> superpower over the world using the content that
> American mass media
> chains.

Add me to your sample, Chris. We are 11 now...

Artur



__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page.
www.yahoo.com

*
*
==========================================================
OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
------------------------------
To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,
view the archives of oslist at listserv.boisestate.edu:
http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html

To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs:
http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist