Hadrian's Wall
I joined a friend for dinner yesterday and although we stand on different sides of the political fence, he pointed out something that I hadn't thought of but was almost blatantly obvious. We were discussing the plight of education in this country and he said:
Do you ever notice that when you read the BBC News, things like Hadrian's Wall are never explained? It goes without saying that people (in Europe) know what it is. When you read U.S. news sources and they discuss, for example, the Mason-Dixon line, it's followed by a summary because it's a part of history not everyone knows.One more reason not to cut education funding in this country.
posted by Half Swede @ 10/26/2005
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Lets not forget England has not only spawned (the gov't owned) BBC, but Page Six girls. And of course they are the most notorious tabloid purveyors and consumers in the world.
Just as the BBC is not England, William F Buckley is not the US.
Of course...one of the small joys I have found is watching the news while I am in another country...to see the US is not even mentioned.
A refreshing change from how we live our lives in the US... our get it now, who cares if you need it; blame game partisan society at all levels is a sad thing to see.
People the world over are the same. Hope, love, faith, and loyalty are in all of us. It is only the diversions that our particular sub-society forces upon us that pervert our attitudes against the hope, love, faith and loyalties of strangers.
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