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Originally Posted by Squirtit
I truly enjoyed living abroad for 5 years. When you come back home to America after living in other cultures you immediately sense the way the media, commercials, and talk TV (even the comedy shows) are pitting one against the other while creating an amazing amount of anxiety, animosity and anger in our society. This is something most Americans don't pick up on because they don't experience anything else.
The thing that pisses me off is foreigners picking the most idiotic of our society and pegging it as the norm, or something most of us give a shit about.
Another thing that pisses me off is when you travel overseas and open your mouth to speak and when they hear the accent they think they automatically know everything about you, and how to target you, because you're American.
The thing foreigners don't get about Americans is that we are so tightly wound here that we will focus on the most stupid inane shit you can think of to take our mind off all the bullshit we are bombarded with constantly on a daily basis. It's that simple.
We don't give a shit. It's something to take our minds off what matters.
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I'm not American but I feel you mate. I have been wondering myself after learning that show like "Sliced" exists on American TV. Where this destruction hungry people are coming from? Where do shows like this lead the society? And it gets much worse with news, there is no telling between entertainment and news reporting nowadays, the situation in Russia for example (something that I know about) is that main TV channels are controlled by Kremlin, that sucks and doesn't produce adequate news reports. However in the west you can't tell the difference between news and entertainment. Which one is better?
I say ban commercial advertising on news channels! This way they stop caring for ratings and start reporting adequate news.