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Offlinejoekenorer
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Should we attempt to educate Americans about other cultures and civilizations...
    #7445040 - 09/23/07 06:06 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

...or just take the media at its word and follow suit?


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Re: Should we attempt to educate Americans about other cultures and civilizations... [Re: joekenorer]
    #7445060 - 09/23/07 06:11 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

well Americans are a small fraction of the net population of the Earth

if Americans stay narrow-minded and biased without acknowledging other nations as counterparts to this world
well then
America will soon face its downfall


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Re: Should we attempt to educate Americans about other cultures and civilizations... [Re: joekenorer]
    #7445061 - 09/23/07 06:11 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Education turns to brainwashing if it isn't honest. Should we be honest about all things national and international? Yeah.


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Re: Should we attempt to educate Americans about other cultures and civilizations... [Re: joekenorer]
    #7445070 - 09/23/07 06:13 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

go for it...

become a teacher


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Re: Should we attempt to educate Americans about other cultures and civilizations... [Re: Disco Cat]
    #7445098 - 09/23/07 06:19 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Everything and everybody is biased though. Honesty is in the eye of the beholder for certain things.


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Re: Should we attempt to educate Americans about other cultures and civilizations... [Re: joekenorer]
    #7445102 - 09/23/07 06:20 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

Should we attempt to educate Americans about other cultures and civilizations...


  I already do.  :smile:


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Re: Should we attempt to educate Americans about other cultures and civilizations... [Re: trepanib]
    #7445158 - 09/23/07 06:34 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

No, everybody is told to think that by people who don't care about their own irresponsible behavior, and assume other must be just like them, and so everybody convinces everybody to no longer keep their behaviour in check.

It's not true that everybody is biased, that's a big deception.


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Re: Should we attempt to educate Americans about other cultures and civilizations... [Re: joekenorer]
    #7445184 - 09/23/07 06:40 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

history is kind of like a list of mistakes
that we should learn to avoid

or a list of successes
that we should strive for

so if you're thinking that we should educate Americans about other cultures
we should keep in mind that American culture affects almost every other civilization out there
including our movies, fast food restaurants, and even our Constitution (Japan has one)

what we should do is educate people about history
unbiased, factual history
history of our interactions with other cultures
of other cultures' actions with each other
everything
just clean, unpolluted history


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Re: Should we attempt to educate Americans about other cultures and civilizations... [Re: meatcakeman]
    #7445435 - 09/23/07 07:50 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

meatcakeman said:
just clean, unpolluted history




Personally I don't think such a thing exists. Ive always felt that history is usually written by the 'winners'. Other whys I can't explain why the word nazi is a derogatory statement without applying my own morals.


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Re: Should we attempt to educate Americans about other cultures and civilizations... [Re: Irdamage]
    #7445456 - 09/23/07 07:54 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

Irdamage said:
I can't explain why the word nazi is a derogatory statement without applying my own morals.




Thats what I've been trying to tell people about ww2 era germany in general, but they ignore me.


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My favorites are weeping willows, which aren't really weeping at all. They're very wispy, witty and will dance in the breeze with you. Nothing like a tree that wants to dance with you. Although it doesn't like its thin limbs being pulled at all, it absolutely LOVES it when you walk through them, letting them gently slide over your face and shoulders. If you're naked, the willow considers it to be sex. It will orgasm on your mind and you will blow dream chunks into outer space. All very fun until your neighbor sees you.                                    -The Joekenorer


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Re: Should we attempt to educate Americans about other cultures and civilizations... [Re: Irdamage]
    #7445476 - 09/23/07 08:00 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

I, as an American, would love to learn more about other cultures in the world.

I also think that other countries might like to know about ours. I don't think we are always honestly depicted just as so many countries aren't honestly depicted to us.


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Re: Should we attempt to educate Americans about other cultures and civilizations... [Re: mushbaby]
    #7445483 - 09/23/07 08:02 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Would we be able to accept the criticism?


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Re: Should we attempt to educate Americans about other cultures and civilizations... [Re: joekenorer]
    #7445617 - 09/23/07 08:28 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Some yes and some no. I find it even hard to talk about Americans as a whole because there are so many different kinds of us. With a wide range of politics/beliefs.


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