Originally posted by popcornbird
Chinadoll, this is coming from an American too. I am American by birth. I don't mean to bash Americans or anyone but that report is sad. I don't think it could be a biased report because its on CNN. If it was on some other News agency, particularly a foreign one, I could take it as "biased," but on CNN, I don't know. If this can be a biased report, well then, anything else on the news can be biased as well. My point was that with people not even knowing where countries are, it is ignorance to believe everything on the media and everything you hear about certain countries when you don't have a clue about them.

Noah's Mommy, yes I do live in America. Again, that report doesn't imply to all Americans, but it implies to a great majority. Its very sad. Looks like either teachers are not doing their job right, or students have no willingness in learning and ignore the teacher when he/she is teaching.
I believe any media source/news report is biased. How biased it may be is the question. How a reporter presents the material, the tone in which they deliver it, even the style of website they use can all effect the message that is being delivered. This is not to say that all media is bad and you shouldn't believe any of it...but I do think it's hard to keep human reactions and emotions completely out of the message you're delivering. Why do I keep debating this..well, I'm a Communications major and we loved to debate this topic in classes...not that that makes me more knowledgable than others in this area...it's just where I'm coming from.

I will not believe that study represents all of America. For me to believe that I'd have to study the criteria of how they researched and surveyed for me to be satisfied. To do a study to represent all of America would take a huge sample population and many hours to try to get an unbiased study accomplished.

One reason I think that some Americans(I won't say all, and I'm not trying to stereotype...just hypothisizing) are not very knowledgable about world affairs is that we're very insulated from it all. Many other countries are smaller and much closer to their neighboring countries than the US is. The closer they are, I believe the more concerned they are about the other country's politics.

I'm at work and trying to type fast, so I hope this makes sense. Sorry for the spelling mistakes and perhaps jumbled thinking. My mind works faster than my hands can type.

edited: meant to say not very knowledgable