NO US Forums section LOL

[den4]

Noticed there is an US Issues section, but no US Forums section as such here
But there is a Japan (of course) and Europe Forums section in this forums pages... what is up with that?
Just thought I should mention it, not that it matters to me

Has the US become such a black sheep nowadays that nobody wants to even put in the regular complaints that were prevalent in the Past?

I just thought it was funny...

ok....time to go back hunting in the plateau of Leng and find the wizened yellow wizards that keep the elusive Thing that cannot be Found

 

[Damicci]

窶嗜ﾂ＿窶嗜ﾂ 窶禿岩?昶?吮?堋ｻ窶堋､窶堋ｾ窶堙ｦﾂ。

 

[Grandpa Frank]

Shhhhhhhh !!!!

We're trying to keep a low profile till after the next election.

Frank

 

[Ma Cherie]

Hey you're right. ☝ Oh well.

 

[Maciamo]

The reasons are that :

1) the Europe Forum is the forum of the Eupedia website, a site that I created as a European version of Japan Reference.

2) There are more interesting news about Europe (about 40 countries + the big EU project) than only the US, so the "US issue" section is sufficient (mostly about Iraq and Bush anyway).

3) More people travel around Europe than the US (France alone has more annual visitors than the US; so does Spain, while Italy and the UK are close behind the US).

 

[den4]

Don't forget 4) 99% of the news in the US is Americanized, so that it takes over a month (until recently) to report about earthquakes in Iran because soldiers dying in Iraq was more important...methinks the Indonesian Tsunami last year was only major headlines in the US because some Americans were also affected...and they got some great action scenes of people getting washed away by the waves... Now it is almost all but forgotten...

and 5) Talk Radio from both the Right and the Left is dummifying Americans with news they can't and shouldn't use

 

[Ma Cherie]

Well, why should there be a US forum anyway? Then again, most people don't think Americans care about what's happening in the world today. I don't think that's it at all. Since our media is so biased people need seek out the information themselves but I think it's because we don't make the effort to learn about what's happening around us. Of course our media going to report how many US soliders were killed in Iraq, it's having a huge impact on us and what people think about us.

In the meantime, I'll just read the headlines about the expansion of the Information Technology in developing India. It's really interesting to me.