It is also interesting to watch how innocent Americans derive their ideas out of nothing. I and another Indian girl had a little arguement with an American student, a friend of ours whether we intelligent students from abroad made America prosperous or we are only attracted here by the generous scholarships the US universities offered. Apparently, few people in universities would have the romantism to imagine that we Chinese students come here with full government sponsorship to take advantage of American contitutional rights. I guess that's what people would name 'no free lunch' theorem and silently assumes. We had a seminar in our department on the use of geographic knowledge to influence public opinion about a country or area. The main idea is that when the government is hostile towards an area, it do not reveal geography and history of that area to avoid sympathy. Otherwise, it's geography/history gets publicized to achieve the opposite effect. Again, the international students agreed and a few American students got angry and thought of that talk 'very political'. Reasoning and guesswork takes over where knowledge is missing. No offense but just a little bit of a disclaimer, I liked American democracy a lot. Having lived here a few years, I do hear from Americans about General Motors behind five big media, and the 'right wing' media in general. I do not speak about government controling media out of ignorance or memory about China. I do realize that news is censored in China and the it could be better. But I tend to accept the idea that in China the content is censored, and in the US, it is 'colored', e.g. in Jackson's case. The idea that somebody hit your head on the street because you said something is amusingly -distorted-. I guess that's why it's good to go see what's happening there yourself under that totalitarian government.
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It is also interesting to watch how innocent Americans derive their ideas out of nothing.
I and another Indian girl had a little arguement with an American student, a friend of ours whether we intelligent students from abroad made America prosperous or we are only attracted here by the generous scholarships the US universities offered. Apparently, few people in universities would have the romantism to imagine that we Chinese students come here with full government sponsorship to take advantage of American contitutional rights. I guess that's what people would name 'no free lunch' theorem and silently assumes.
We had a seminar in our department on the use of geographic knowledge to influence public opinion about a country or area. The main idea is that when the government is hostile towards an area, it do not reveal geography and history of that area to avoid sympathy. Otherwise, it's geography/history gets publicized to achieve the opposite effect. Again, the international students agreed and a few American students got angry and thought of that talk 'very political'.
Reasoning and guesswork takes over where knowledge is missing.
No offense but just a little bit of a disclaimer, I liked American democracy a lot. Having lived here a few years, I do hear from Americans about General Motors behind five big media, and the 'right wing' media in general. I do not speak about government controling media out of ignorance or memory about China. I do realize that news is censored in China and the it could be better. But I tend to accept the idea that in China the content is censored, and in the US, it is 'colored', e.g. in Jackson's case.
The idea that somebody hit your head on the street because you said something is amusingly -distorted-. I guess that's why it's good to go see what's happening there yourself under that totalitarian government.
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