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Termyn8or -> RE: Contrasting Neighbo[u]rs [?] (11/12/2008 7:57:15 AM)
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Just for the record, I try not to hog the name "American". You'll find me using US citizens or US Citizens depending on context. One must realize the Canadians are Americans and so are Mexicans, Brazilians and so forth.
One thing I have noticed is the lack of knowledge imparted to US citizens. We grow up thinking that this is the only country in which someone gets a supposedly fair trial when charged with a crime, and years ago that we were the only country with color TV. (which was true but only for a very short time, and when the rest of the world got it all of their technology produced better pictures except one - Russia's)
Also we grew up watching pictures of Russia, but in the cold winter and were almost led to believe that it it always that way there. In the sixties and seventies we were being so indoctrinated that the US was the best country in the world that we did not know that things were not a hundred years behind in the rest of the world.
We did grow out of that though, thanks to the internet and a few other things, but long ago we never heard about anything good happening in other countries, and were not only not told of scientific discoveries across the globe, actually we were warned about trusting scientific and/or medical studies conducted in other countries. All the while we had the most flawed system, and the truth was that research done in other countries was more likely to be valid than our own.
Looking for cites and quotes ? Look to this post. I lived it. Seriously when I was very young I believed the Rusiia was in black and white. I don't mean their TV, I mean the whole country.
I also had no idea there were cities in Canada, that it was wilderness and the Mounties were riding around looking for a girl named Nell.
Some things have changed fo the better I guess.
T
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