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I grew up in the US and considered myself relatively worldly and educated, and when I started visiting Sri Lanka and India and reading papers published there an
by lanstin 2y ago
I grew up in the US and considered myself relatively worldly and educated, and when I started visiting Sri Lanka and India and reading papers published there and so on, when I heard US press discuss news from India or Sri Lanka, I was really shocked at the deep level of general ignorance; and I am not talking Fox here but NPR and Washington Post.
- anon291 2y agoThe shocking part to me is that Indian news is usually conducted in English so it's not even inaccessible. It's written by English speakers for English speakers, yet everyone seems mystified at what goes on in the subcontinent Like I get why people find it difficult to understand Mandarin. But this is English news we're talking about ...
- psychoslave 2y agoIf you want the CCP propaganda in English, you have plenty of material out there I think, you don't even need those trivial to use machine translators.
- anon291 2y agoThe difference is it's fairly straightforwards to interact with real people from these countries online speaking in native tongues