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Ann Jones, AlterNet, January 11, 2015: Is the U.S. Crazy?
Ann Jones writes from the perspective of an American expatriate living in Europe, and often faced with the hard questions that baffles many Europeans, Asians, and Africans about the "increasingly odd and troubling conduct of the United States." America’s trigger-happiness, cutthroat free-marketeering, and “exceptionality” are seen as just crazy. She recently returned to the USA for a visit and had this to say:
"It struck me there that most Americans have no idea just how strange we now seem to much of the world. In my experience, foreign observers are far better informed about us than the average American is about them. This is partly because the “news” in the American media is so parochial and so limited in its views both of how we act and how other countries think -- even countries with which we were recently, are currently, or threaten soon to be at war."
I would agree with Ann Jones having spent a good portion of my working life as an expatriate overseas. Whenever I returned, I needed a reality check, and when I ultimately returned for good it was a bit of a culture shock as I learned about Fox News and other media sources, and ordinary people seemed so often to be in "La La Land." Or maybe it was just me that was the oddball.
Jones writes about her experiences, and her article above is worth reading. I know that Dutch and I share many of her observations and views.
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Schmidt Wrote: Ann Jones, AlterNet, January 11, 2015: Is the U.S. Crazy?
Ann Jones writes from the perspective of an American expatriate living in Europe, and often faced with the hard questions that baffles many Europeans, Asians, and Africans about the "increasingly odd and troubling conduct of the United States." America’s trigger-happiness, cutthroat free-marketeering, and “exceptionality” are seen as just crazy. She recently returned to the USA for a visit and had this to say:
"It struck me there that most Americans have no idea just how strange we now seem to much of the world. In my experience, foreign observers are far better informed about us than the average American is about them. This is partly because the “news” in the American media is so parochial and so limited in its views both of how we act and how other countries think -- even countries with which we were recently, are currently, or threaten soon to be at war."
I would agree with Ann Jones having spent a good portion of my working life as an expatriate overseas. Whenever I returned, I needed a reality check, and when I ultimately returned for good it was a bit of a culture shock as I learned about Fox News and other media sources, and ordinary people seemed so often to be in "La La Land." Or maybe it was just me that was the oddball.
Jones writes about her experiences, and her article above is worth reading. I know that Dutch and I share many of her observations and views. As always, Schmidt right on; I've been saying that forever on this site; sorry but the US wants to be an "island" with a huge "fear" factor.
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