It's funny because in all surveys about global awareness, Americans come last with the Chinese and finnish coming in first followed by other Europeans. Let me give you some stats. In the U.S., less than 20% of the TV coverage is on international news, with the remaining domestic coverage overwhelmingly dominated by soft news like entertainment and crime. of the meager amounts of international coverage, 47% are about Iraq. More than 60% of Americans couldn't identify Sarcozy as the president of France. It is a generally acknowledged norm that Americans are the most ignorant people on Earth. More than 60% of the citizens in the middle class are more pre occupied with the superbowl than the Iraq war, while the super rich are very well informed. America is a place where the super rich are rich, smart, and respectable, and the masses are horrifyingly similar to the mindless proletariat described in 1984. So no wonder clowns like mercenaryslick still buy into the red scare ***** that he was fed as a child that paints China and Russia as these places where people don't think. I've traveled around the world and lived in many places, no country pumps out more ***** as America. There is no propaganda machine as powerful as the American media, in that they're so subtle about brainwashing you, making you think that you're exposed to "all the news fit to print" when what you actually get is only a portion of a small amount of what happens in the rest of the world. Mercenaryslick: "I've never left Florida, but I am a scholar in world politics." Drink more dumbass coke, bitch.