Post by Matter on Jul 31, 2004 15:45:10 GMT -5
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BTW, this is an excellent blogsite for alternative opinions in Germany.
His comment on the article:
And I Thought I was the Only One...
Here is a fabulous comment we just received. It reflects the thoughts and frustrations of many confronted daily with the overwhelming media driven bias and anti-American sentiment throughout Europe. Often, those who are brave enough to oppose the majority view get the impression that they are fighting a hopeless battle...that they are the only ones...until they discover this website.
The article:
Comments from European visitors?
BTW, this is an excellent blogsite for alternative opinions in Germany.
His comment on the article:
And I Thought I was the Only One...
Here is a fabulous comment we just received. It reflects the thoughts and frustrations of many confronted daily with the overwhelming media driven bias and anti-American sentiment throughout Europe. Often, those who are brave enough to oppose the majority view get the impression that they are fighting a hopeless battle...that they are the only ones...until they discover this website.
The article:
From Tyranno:
Following up on "Eric in USA on the Role of France and Germany in Iraq." I agree and have found the same narrow perspective from very nearly all of the Germans that I speak with. I am continually reminded by my objective German friends of the "fact" of American "simplicity" and their "black and white" view of the world, contrasted with the more "complex" and "sophisticated" European perspective on the same world events. And yet my observations just don't bear it out. It is the rare German I meet who doesn't consider President Bush "stupid," that he "stole the election," that he is waging a "war for oil," he is a "cowboy," a "unilateralist," etc, etc, etc... The parroting of the TIME/NEWSWEEK/ DER SPEIGEL/STERN chosen topic of the week is not exactly a "nuanced" or "thoughtful" personal opinion. In opinion poles these numbers are born out by 70- 80% of the German (all european?)people. Focusing on just on those topics the numbers in the U.S.A. are much closer to a 55%~45%. So I think we can agree that someone is riding on the "groupthink" bandwagon, I am just not sure it is the Americans. On so many topics I am astonished at how uninformed most Germans are, or how willing they are to take their information from the most extreme points of view (always negative) to be found in America. Michael Moore is a prophet. fromthewilderness and moveon.org are gospel. Every criticism or American mistake is accepted at face value, every bit of postitive news is suspect! I have been told (with a serious straight face) that it is unfortunate that people in America are "doomed to the socio-economic class they are born into." (From the nation that starts testing it's citizens as toddlers to predetermine the direction and level of their schooling.) I have been told that the "entire news media" in America is controlled by "rightwing zealots" who have brainwashed the American masses into supporting "Bush's War!" (Something that would no doubt be amusing to the vast majority of Americans who consider their mainstream medias somewhat left leaning. But we must have been "brainwashed" because otherwise we too would be anti-war, like all correct-thinking Germans.) I have been told that the government is controlled by, Jews, Christian fundamentalists, Israel, Neocons, etc, etc . . . that the CIA crashed the planes into the WTC, that the PNAC website is the blueprint for the U.S.A. taking over the world, racism is still a terrible problem, nobody has healthcare, the rich are eating the poor, lions and tigers and bears blah blah blah blahblahblahblah . . . .
Following up on "Eric in USA on the Role of France and Germany in Iraq." I agree and have found the same narrow perspective from very nearly all of the Germans that I speak with. I am continually reminded by my objective German friends of the "fact" of American "simplicity" and their "black and white" view of the world, contrasted with the more "complex" and "sophisticated" European perspective on the same world events. And yet my observations just don't bear it out. It is the rare German I meet who doesn't consider President Bush "stupid," that he "stole the election," that he is waging a "war for oil," he is a "cowboy," a "unilateralist," etc, etc, etc... The parroting of the TIME/NEWSWEEK/ DER SPEIGEL/STERN chosen topic of the week is not exactly a "nuanced" or "thoughtful" personal opinion. In opinion poles these numbers are born out by 70- 80% of the German (all european?)people. Focusing on just on those topics the numbers in the U.S.A. are much closer to a 55%~45%. So I think we can agree that someone is riding on the "groupthink" bandwagon, I am just not sure it is the Americans. On so many topics I am astonished at how uninformed most Germans are, or how willing they are to take their information from the most extreme points of view (always negative) to be found in America. Michael Moore is a prophet. fromthewilderness and moveon.org are gospel. Every criticism or American mistake is accepted at face value, every bit of postitive news is suspect! I have been told (with a serious straight face) that it is unfortunate that people in America are "doomed to the socio-economic class they are born into." (From the nation that starts testing it's citizens as toddlers to predetermine the direction and level of their schooling.) I have been told that the "entire news media" in America is controlled by "rightwing zealots" who have brainwashed the American masses into supporting "Bush's War!" (Something that would no doubt be amusing to the vast majority of Americans who consider their mainstream medias somewhat left leaning. But we must have been "brainwashed" because otherwise we too would be anti-war, like all correct-thinking Germans.) I have been told that the government is controlled by, Jews, Christian fundamentalists, Israel, Neocons, etc, etc . . . that the CIA crashed the planes into the WTC, that the PNAC website is the blueprint for the U.S.A. taking over the world, racism is still a terrible problem, nobody has healthcare, the rich are eating the poor, lions and tigers and bears blah blah blah blahblahblahblah . . . .
Comments from European visitors?
