I think what's going on here has more to do with what people decide to emphasize in the news and how we take that information in and use it.
Often, when I see many "major" news programs and articles, I marvel at which stories they choose to emphasize (or don't). For every sensational or extremest story from "there", I can find an equally insane one from "here". I don't think that is helping me get a "fair and balanced" picture of what is going on however. Historically, if you look back at the media published about the Japanese before WWII, you'll see that Americans portrayed them as less than human, with strange customs and "incapable of feeling love as we westerners know it". same old, same old except, as you say Heath, we now have the "power of the net" to change this. I think that we need to balance "big media" articles like this with more personal media from around the world before making too many judgments and generalizing them to an entire culture. markus On Feb 5, 2007, at 6:32 AM, Heath wrote: > > > Ok, I know we have international folks here, help me understand this > article please.....I read things like this and I am torn....on one > hand > who am I to judge a culture or another country's laws....but on the > other hand, I mean c'mon it's insane..... > > It's time's like this I want to believe in the power of the net, the > power of education, the power, the hope that things can change....by > making the world smaller, by sharing, by showing how much in commen we > really have with each other maybe, just maybe something positive can > happen... > --- Markus Sandy http://feeds.feedburner.com/havemoneywillvlog http://feeds.feedburner.com/apperceptions http://feeds.feedburner.com/digitaldojo http://feeds.feedburner.com/spinflow [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
