Tom Sixkiller wrote:

How much have our proposed solutions in many areas been conditioned by
Hollyweird?

More importantly, how has the perception of the U.S. by
the rest of the
world been formed?

There seems to be a popular theory (in the U.S. anyway)
that the rest of
the world hates us because we are imperialists -- despite
the obvious opposite
reality. Perhaps this comes from NPR (more properly,
National Guilt Radio)
and the needs of dictators to keep their population
diverted.

I suspect the dominate effect it not our foreign policy
but the perception created
by Hollywood.

While I have not dug into the numbers yet, I bet that the
ratio of people in the
rest of the world that have seen U.S. produced films and
listened to U.S. gangsta
rap to those who have actually been to the U.S. and
observed 'normal' people is
many tens of millions to one.


The primary images these people have to produce their
perception of the U.S. is
based on the beliefs portrayed by the likes of Michael
Moore, Ludacris and
Dan Rather.

(the reference to Dan Rather is not accidental...there is
little material difference
between the U.S. entertainment and news industries at this
point.)