Peter_Puget Posted November 20, 2003 Posted November 20, 2003 ..or evidence of how things are really fucked up over there.. Link PP Quote
catbirdseat Posted November 20, 2003 Posted November 20, 2003 Facism? You have only to look in your own back yard. Quote
j_b Posted November 20, 2003 Posted November 20, 2003 the show sounds pretty bad. in all fairness, i have to add that it does not seem too different from the way countless hollywood b movies portray the enemy of the day. demonizing the enemy is commonly used by most (all?) groups engaged in warfare and i agree it is totally pathetic. Quote
scott_harpell Posted November 21, 2003 Posted November 21, 2003 check out the italian PM... he is the counties richest citizen, owner of the largest slice of the media and he has been arersted 8 times in 8 years, but changes the laws to suit his problems. Quote
scott_harpell Posted November 21, 2003 Posted November 21, 2003 j_b said: the show sounds pretty bad. in all fairness, i have to add that it does not seem too different from the way countless hollywood b movies portray the enemy of the day. demonizing the enemy is commonly used by most (all?) groups engaged in warfare and i agree it is totally pathetic. i was talking to a man from laos who fled the communists and he said that everyone in his refugee camp thought that we were giant cannibles. he said that when he came off the plane he thought americans were mabe gonna eat him if he did something wrong in the airport. poor guy. can you imagine? Quote
j_b Posted November 21, 2003 Posted November 21, 2003 pretty crazy. it does not surprise me that some of them may have fallen for something like this since the average level of education of laotians at the time was probably not very high (mostly fairly simple horticultural mountain people). in turn, it is interesting to ponder what the fraction of hmong people who sided with the us were told about the vietnamese and laotian commies: the bad guys are coming to steal your women and your poppies? what is more surprising to me though is how easily the stereotypes portrayed in trash movies have been accepted by a fragment of the population in the industrialized world where presumably most folks have gone to school for a minimum of 8 years. you know what i mean: the ubiquitous bloodthirsty maniacs in the rambo/norris/etc movies; of course they also happen to be russian or arabs or vietnamese. that's pretty wild too. the most 'funny' part in those flicks is how these people can only be sickos or stupid. it's an either ... or, no other option Quote
scott_harpell Posted November 21, 2003 Posted November 21, 2003 the most 'funny' part in those flicks is how these people can only be sickos or stupid. it's an either ... or, no other option that is the problem.everyone thinks someone is the devil and another is a saint... truth be told... if they are in power they are at least an asshole. Quote
j_b Posted November 21, 2003 Posted November 21, 2003 i just remembered something that may be relevant to the story you were told by your friend. i read several reports how some cambodian and laotian soldiers would eat internal organs retrieved from their kills. if i remember correctly liver and heart were choice (cooked with local vegetables is the detail that struck me ). presumably by eating a specific organ one gained properties associated with it (courage and what not). may be going from the above to believing in all powerful cannibal american fighters was not such a big stretch after all? Quote
scott_harpell Posted November 21, 2003 Posted November 21, 2003 j_b said: i just remembered something that may be relevant to the story you were told by your friend. i read several reports how some cambodian and laotian soldiers would eat internal organs retrieved from their kills. if i remember correctly liver and heart were choice (cooked with local vegetables is the detail that struck me ). presumably by eating a specific organ one gained properties associated with it (courage and what not). may be going from the above to believing in all powerful cannibal american fighters was not such a big stretch after all? same thing in the congo... it just started to be more popular. there is some amazingly crazy shit going on there that we never hear about... some say millions are being killed there. many are forced to eat their relatives. it is quite gruesome. Quote
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