Or, how the Indians should
have reacted if the entire populations of Europe, Africa, East Asia, South
Asia, and Southeast Asia had arrived by ship in the New World in 1492.
Or some silly-assed thing.
Why is American TV so relentlessly and monotonously about Americans?
Civilization on Earth is destroyed and maybe 80 or 90% of humanity is killed off and we get to see the aftermath in St. Louis, Missouri?
Jeez.
I've lived on this planet more than sixty years and, with minor exceptions, the only part of it my TV has ever shown me is English-speaking North America and, in fact, almost only the US.
Even popular TV shows made in Canada are set in the US.
Heck, even the vampires, werewolves, and ghosts are Americans.
Wouldn't it be fun to have just one Italian or Indonesian or Argentine or Russian network available, full time, showing us with subtitles the very same stuff it shows its normal target audience?
What does the world look like for them?
The world's past? Or its future?
Why is American TV so relentlessly and monotonously about Americans?
Civilization on Earth is destroyed and maybe 80 or 90% of humanity is killed off and we get to see the aftermath in St. Louis, Missouri?
Jeez.
I've lived on this planet more than sixty years and, with minor exceptions, the only part of it my TV has ever shown me is English-speaking North America and, in fact, almost only the US.
Even popular TV shows made in Canada are set in the US.
Heck, even the vampires, werewolves, and ghosts are Americans.
Wouldn't it be fun to have just one Italian or Indonesian or Argentine or Russian network available, full time, showing us with subtitles the very same stuff it shows its normal target audience?
What does the world look like for them?
The world's past? Or its future?
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