Huh? Odd interpretations all around then - I thought I was blaming the media? In my ignorance I must have interpreted the article like this: 1. Communism = bad

Huh? Odd interpretations all around then - I thought I was blaming the media? In my ignorance I must have interpreted the article like this: 1. Communism = bad, 2. all Communist people lazy = Communism doomed to fail, 3. big Western company comes bringing enlightenment but people no want jobs (couldn't possible have anything to do with lousy pay = must mean communists be lazy), 4. everybody knows in capitalism people work incredibly productively 8 hours per day - except those crazy Yugoslavs Blame it on the communism still goes hand in hand with the era when the article was published, but today...? Really - "a Yugoslavian problem"? EDIT (after your edit): Also - where do I say or assume that a lot of US citizens are not well-travelled? Please read again...