I don’t know how best to react to this article. On one hand, Hollywood is immensely popular and so is American media. It has taken over a lot of what people lo

I don’t know how best to react to this article. On one hand, Hollywood is immensely popular and so is American media. It has taken over a lot of what people look up to On the other hand, it is so popular that it unintentionally smothers lesser budgeted and not as popular national and cultural aspects such that you need to actively seek out those things in other ways rather than sitting in front of a screen. The same could be said for even the US where not every possible aspect of society is represented. I got the sense that the West was being blamed for the portrayal of Libyans when few movies actually try for accurate representation. Like the movie Kandahar that is on Netflix now is about Afghanistan (fictionalized account) but perhaps could be criticized because film locations in Afghanistan were not actually used. This is common where like Vancouver is used and the movie will say it is Chicago for example. Not meant to be a shallow dismissal of the article’s premise The problems are really rooted in the reign of Gadahffi and the inability of Libyans to understand who they are culturally and broadcast that image out