We live in a Bubble
I went to imdb.com and put in Valley of the Wolves and read the user comments. The sad thing was that many people gave this movie 10 stars and said that it was the truth. They actually believe that Americans rape and kill innocent people and that we sell their organs on the black market!! The commenters said that Americans are living in a bubble. But they seem to forget that many Americans have or had relatives that went to Iraq.(I personally had two) So most Americans do not have to rely on the media to get information about Iraq. We live in less in a bubble than people think. I lived in a Pakistani neighborhood in New York and got plenty of news from Pakistan. I can read Russian so I can go online and read the Russian news. I was a teacher of English and most of my students came from other nations and told me their points of views. I’ve heard points of views from all over the world and believe me, America is far from being a backwards media bubble. I know that I am not the only one by the way!
My Ukrainian students told me that Muslims wear the fingers of Christian children around their necks. Pakistanis and Malaysian Muslims truly believe that Americans go to Iraq to purposely kill Muslim children. (read this in a newspaper while in Kuala Lumpur) Koreans believe that the Japanese are helping North Korea because they are afraid of the reunification of Korea. My Serbian students refused to be friends with the Bosnian Muslim students. (they told me that Muslims took their farm and they watched their grandfather get killed)I guess that America isn’t the only country that gets a bad rap. One thing I noticed from my travels to Asia, is that people around the world are very racist! I was a naive American girl who thought America was the only nation that had racist people. I guess prejudice and hate is unfortunately a universal problem.
People seem to forget that America is filled with people and points of view from all over the world. The government does not control the media (and you can tell!!), you can voice you opinion no matter how strange. If someone says that Jewish doctors are harvesting the organs from Muslim children, I can freely check the source and know that is nonsense. The “videos” of Americans raping Muslim virgins was found to be fake. I know most Americans only want freedom for Muslims and for Muslim women.
So those in Turkey who believe that Jews harvest the organs of Muslim innocents, please ask a Jew if it is true. You will find that Jews and Americans are pretty cool people that do not care if you are Muslim or Turkish. Most of us have a Muslim neighbor!! We have sometimes a sick sense of humor, but not all Americans think that is funny. Some still have grace and respect, believe it or not. America is not perfect. But we are not close to the sick world of Saddam Hussein or even worse, the Taliban. If you hate America so much, don’t come to our universities and stop getting tourist visas to come here to make illegal money. I think you really, really deep down like us. (I know deep down we like you!)