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Post by Mibblez on May 17, 2019 5:31:30 GMT 10
www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/112730284/egyptian-filmmaker-announces-film-on-christchurch-mosque-shootingsAn Egyptian filmmaker has announced that he has plans to make a movie about the Christchurch Mass Shooting. Understandably, there has been a lot of backlash to the announcement and people are pleading for the project to be scrapped. What's your thoughts on this? Personally, I think it's too soon for a movie to be released. The thing that worries me is that if a movie is released, there's a good chance that it would just sensationalise the entire event and it would be making a mockery out of the fact that 51 people had their lives taken as a result of the attacker's deplorable actions. If you've watched CNN (let alone Fox News lol) they report ONLY American news. Despite it being a 24/7 news channel, in all that entire time they manage to discuss at most 1 or 2 sensationalist topics a day, and those topics are going to be American or something international that relates back to the US. The lack of knowledge of world events by Americans doesn't particularly surprise me. In fact, unless they're heavily politically involved, many Americans won't even know much about the more minor going-ons in their own country, the cable news channels are that bad.  Yeah, I have watched CNN and FOX News before actually. Their news coverage is absolutely awful. Not only is the way in which they present the news incredibly bias (i.e FOX News favouring Republicans), but like you mentioned, they intentionally skip over details which don't tie-back to the US in some way. Watching them just makes me appreciate the fact that I don't live in the US, to be completely honest. I will say that the news media, or really the media min general here is focusing waay to much on our own country and it is annoying. It feels weird knowing I have to lookup info of other places on my own. It’s been like this down here I think just because of generations of been kind of isolated in a way from other cultures compared to our own that a lot of people just believe in the stereotypes or don’t even know much or the difference between other countries.like with the shooting in New Zealand, many Americans think New Zealand and Australia is te same and that theirs no real difference or interesting things about it, but it’s just the fact that many people don’t know much about it and don’t look it up. It’s annoying but it be like that. Someday it will change. I’m glad you know it’s not every American though, that would be as ignorant to assume that as an American assuming what you said. Personally, I believe it's a sociological issue more than anything. I think there is a prevalent mindset in American society that the US is "the world" and everything that happens globally has to revolve around the US in some way, otherwise, it's unimportant. The US hasn't been any more isolated from different cultures than other western countries around the world, IMO. Whether it's the fault of the US education system or something else entirely, I don't know, but from an outsider's perspective, the US seems to have this huge sense of ignorance to it that other countries simply don't have. I hope the mindset does change in the future, but to be honest, I wouldn't hold my breath over it. I thought significant progress would have already been made given the fact that we're living in an age of social media and smartphones, however it would appear that isn't the case. The only thing I can think of at the moment of why America thinks we are the whole world is because America legit has every different culture living here to the point where some forget there’s other places, Mike din with bad info with our educational system. But other countries may think all of us are ignorant but really the ignorant ones are the loudest, many Americans are not like that and others give a bad rep for the rest of the country. Wether it’s the media our system or just the fact that most of the country is rural and just like any other country a rural area can be pretty ingorent with the rest of the world, it’s gonna change, or maybe not fully, but it’ll happen. its an American thing, what are you gonna do? 😋
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Post by SharksFan99 on May 18, 2019 16:59:33 GMT 10
The only thing I can think of at the moment of why America thinks we are the whole world is because America legit has every different culture living here to the point where some forget there’s other places, Mike din with bad info with our educational system. But other countries may think all of us are ignorant but really the ignorant ones are the loudest, many Americans are not like that and others give a bad rep for the rest of the country. Wether it’s the media our system or just the fact that most of the country is rural and just like any other country a rural area can be pretty ingorent with the rest of the world, it’s gonna change, or maybe not fully, but it’ll happen. its an American thing, what are you gonna do? 😋 I can see what you're saying in regards to the different cultures, but I could make that same argument for Australia or most other countries around the world. I'm not sure if that's entirely the reason for it, to be honest. You're right that not every American thinks like that. If that were the case, everyone in the US would think that an international city like London is a city somewhere in America, lol. Like you said, hopefully it's something that will change sooner rather than later.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Mar 15, 2020 12:51:04 GMT 10
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