We've been hearing a lot lately about how world opinion favors Barack Obama over John McCain. Here's a recent Reuters story, which I came across on Drudge Report, about world opinion on another issue.
I'm English, and I'm constantly amazed at the anti-Americanism prejudice that people like to express in my country. They view you as being odd, anti-intellectual, crass, unfunny, over-sensitive, jingoistic, militant, hyper-emotional and unsophisticated idiots. They really, really do.
The media coverage over here, especially on the BBC, is really biased against America.
I often feel sickened when perfectly nice, intelligent people say such stupid things about America and Americans. But I don't think it's their fault, they are just going on the "information" they get from the media, which is often one-sided. The person who argues first sounds right, until the other side speaks, as it says in Proverbs.
Since the news we get here is mostly to do with Britain, the coverage of American affairs is sketchy and inadequate, and we just get a few soundbites: "Bush is stoopid", "Obama transcends partisan politics". And no matter how hard someone like me tries to show how inept these assertions are, they are nearly impossible to uproot.
The reason non-American's opinions shouldn't influence the way Americans vote, is because they know next to nothing about US politics - they just think they do!
So far, no arguments have given within the comments of this post as to why/how the individuals being polled are in error. I offer one here (by Michael Butler) which shows that they are in fact justified in rejecting the official theory:
If you go to the site mentioned within the article, this one, you'll find other relevant articles, like this article on world opinion about abortion.
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I'm English, and I'm constantly amazed at the anti-Americanism prejudice that people like to express in my country. They view you as being odd, anti-intellectual, crass, unfunny, over-sensitive, jingoistic, militant, hyper-emotional and unsophisticated idiots. They really, really do.
ReplyDeleteThe media coverage over here, especially on the BBC, is really biased against America.
I often feel sickened when perfectly nice, intelligent people say such stupid things about America and Americans. But I don't think it's their fault, they are just going on the "information" they get from the media, which is often one-sided. The person who argues first sounds right, until the other side speaks, as it says in Proverbs.
Since the news we get here is mostly to do with Britain, the coverage of American affairs is sketchy and inadequate, and we just get a few soundbites: "Bush is stoopid", "Obama transcends partisan politics". And no matter how hard someone like me tries to show how inept these assertions are, they are nearly impossible to uproot.
The reason non-American's opinions shouldn't influence the way Americans vote, is because they know next to nothing about US politics - they just think they do!
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So far, no arguments have given within the comments of this post as to why/how the individuals being polled are in error. I offer one here (by Michael Butler) which shows that they are in fact justified in rejecting the official theory:
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