[Ahwa--please use spell check. I've corrected big spelling mistakes here, too. I'm inclined to correct your spelling, but really, this is ridiculous--ed].

[His spelling is fixed, but let' s please use spell check in the future :)--ed].

I lived through the “Ugly American” era. It’s just as you said. Through WWII, the American people depended on the news media for information, reassurance, and comfort. The “super star “news” men” exploited that after the war was over to promote their own liberal “hobby horse”,
hate America first. If the news people said it it must be true. The baby boom generation were impressionable children in the 1950′s and they became the anti-culure rebels in the 1960′s. Fortunately, sanity is returning with ensuing generations as the Cronkites and Murrows pass-on and the boomers move to Sun City and enroll in Medicare.

I know a secret about those Turks and other God-loving, pure-hearted, clean-living Muslims. Google has a nifty little search tool, http://www.google.com/trends. You see what the world is searching for by entering a search term. You get a chart showing Google search volume on that term broken down by regions of the world. The top ten regions are displayed. I searched on “sex” and “Islam”. Then I searched on combinations of terms.

SEX: Pakistan, Egypt, India, Iran, TURKEY, Morocco, Viet Nam, Saudi Arabia, Croatia, Indonesia

ISLAM: Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia, Bangladesh, Algeria, UAR, TURKEY, Egypt

I realize a chart can’t explain why people were searching the Internet on that term. Maybe the Turks were just confirming how decadent WE are. It seems to me they’re more interested in sex than in Islam. God knows.

You can search on multiple terms. The order you enter the terms makes a difference in the dataset. There’s a separate bar for each term showing comparative volume within each region. I searched on “basketball, sex” and the U.S. came up number two with “sex” outdistancing “basketball” of the pair. I searched on “sex, basketball” and the U.S. didn’t come up at all. Number one and two on that search were Pakistan and Egypt. Comparatively they weren’t the least bit interested in basketball. If you put in “sex, Islam”, the comparative graph has sex beating out Islam by far with the usual suspects.

The Internet is passive; it is not imposing itself on anyone. It’s your fingers that type in SEX at the behest of your brain. I guess it’s still our fault because we invented the Internet.

Oh, I did search on “Tammy Bruce”. Results: U.S., New Zealand, Canada, Singapore, Taiwan, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Croatia, Romania, Kuwait. Go get ‘em Tammy!

One thing he said was a misperception on their part is they think that American culture is actually like what they see in the entertainment we export. They don’t understand that most Americans don’t live like we’re portrayed in the movies.

So many people watched so many “news” stories (and they were really stories) about how bad America was that by 1960 when they were told that America was the cause of the rest of the world’s problems they believed it without questioning the “fact”. People in Africa and Asia hated us because were were bad people. After 10 years of being told how bad we were many of us believed it an believed the rest of the world was right to hate us. It was our fault. We were the “Ugly Americans”.