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Originally Posted by Tronic
No, was wondering how you came to the conclusion that majority of Americans have a negative attitude towards all Afghanis. Well, since you reside in the states, I won't argue with you. But just one point, Although I can somewhat agree that Fox is brainwash central (however whether it is against muslims/Islam is arguable); but CNN is quite anti-Bush and are most of the time busy bashing him; so I won't say that it is on a "brainwashing" spree. Anyhow, war propaganda is an essential tool to keep the populace on your side and it would be foolish to say that it is only Americans that are fed this. There is far more brainwashing going on in ME countries where media is far more strictly controlled then America.
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I did not say that the vast majority of Americans have the exact same xerox-copied negative opinion on Afghans like some sort of cartoon character from "Team America World Police". There is quite a variety of mindsets present in mainstream america ranging from liberal to conservative, young, old, right-wing, nationalist, religious, agnostic etc etc. For each one of these mindsets however there is a different set of propaganda produced by American media and gobbled up by its target audience. The net effect is that no matter if an American is a fan of CNN, Fox, Clinton or Bush they will end up being fed war propaganda
one way or another which creates a bias against Afghans, Muslims in general as well as the middle east as well as China. You don't have to reside in the states to understand this.
And as far as the middle east, I wasn't really saying that people in the ME have access to media that is more or less biased than in the US. All I said was that the average joe ends up being brainwashed to look down upon and scorn the typical Afghan and the Afghan way of life. Only reason I brought this up was to point at the meaningless phrases that Karzai was throwing around in his interview. Here he is on video btw, same interview:
YouTube - Karzai: Are You An American Puppet?