Comment on America’s Greatness: It Has Never Really Been Politics by Clint
You’re right, people are skeptical of those with power - and usually for good reason and from lots of previous experience.
I do think America is misunderstood a lot - I’ve noticed how often here in Africa people confuse American culture and American media. And unfortunately the media is a very poor reflection of the culture.
Strange as it may seem, even in the remotest parts of Africa I find American media - and usually in Chinese packaging. I wonder if the artist ever imagined in their wildest dreams their music/film/etc would be played in the contexts it is.
This weekend I was in a rural part of Uganda and someone came up to us selling pirated dvds from China which have on one dvd up to 80+ full length US movies or cds! And only for about $5 USD.
One of my friends was excited to buy one with all of the James Bond movies and other films of a similar genre.
Another guy was excited to buy one with about 40+ “adult” movies.
I often wonder about the impact on the world of the media the US creates (and now which China exports).
A quote from the superman movie: “With great power comes great responsibility.”
Don’t get me wrong - I think there is a lot of great media too, but I guess I just wonder if the overall impact has been more positive or negative, and what we could do to be more responsible in helping make it more positive?
I like the description. Coz I have never been such a cold european country. But I love to see and visit Finland someday.
What a peaceful country. I saw many nature pics of Finland. But I knowledged more from this lovely, description of this US boy.
I’ve always imagined other African countries as more “traditional” Africa (I think of Kenya first), so it’s interesting to hear it’s one of the least “morphed”. And that it’s green and has spicy food…I’ve never really put Ethiopia on my list of places I wanted to travel to until now.
There’s been much criticism about the WSS protests “not being very Buddhist!”
Recently we see in the news (see link below) Tens of thousands of South Korean Buddhists peacefully demonstrating waving placards and fists, chanting
“Oppose religious discrimination” against their country’s leader and government.
Are they not Buddhists too?
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1613188.ece
Hi Adriana,
I do not know anything about that. Does anyone else?
I believe the company is based in Germany, but my only guess is that being technically in Mauritius offers a certain favorable tax status?
But I really don’t know. Is anyone wiser on this issue?
Clint,
I really appreciate that you started this blog. I have been contacted by them and also wondered about their legitimacy. My advisor says that the company is in Mauritius. Do you know anything about that?
Adriana