Personal media is great, if you are capable of doing it....and I agree that trying to understand or basing an opinion on any culture based on any one article is doing a disservice to that culture...
but I have experienced the lifestyle in Saudi, grated it was over 15 years ago and in a very limited capacity, but I was struck so much by the underlying distrust and then I was struck by how much we did have in common.... it's funny we spend so much time talking about diversity and talking about celebrating our differances, when in fact if we focused on the things that bind us together maybe, just maybe that could bring us a bit closer together...... Heath http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com --- In [email protected], Markus Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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] >
