[ Outline ] · Standard · Linear+ What's Going On With America?, The news here makes it look like chaos.

[Lynette]

Obviously, we don't receive the same news feeds as you all do here. We don't have NBC, ABC, CBC, FOX, etc. sanitizing the "news" (if that's what you care to call their version of it). Lately, the impression the rest of the world is getting of America (through non-American TV) is that the entire country is in a state of chaos with everything from violence in the streets, to a state of ultimate government corruption, to an impending war between the races. It really breaks my heart to see the rest of the world watching my other country apparently, and slowly being turned into another version of the old Soviet State. I haven't been out of the country all that long to actually believe things there are as bad as they appear on the world news (or at least I hope not), but i'm affraid that the image of America being projected worldwide will only make it harder on all Americans. So, how DO you all evaluate the state of the country?

[badgirlpinky]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9oHEXmlbY4

love this song....

but seriously would love to visit America, NYC, California, Vegas, Georgia etc. But the gun crime aspect kinda scares me guess thats a whole 'nother debate huh?

[Buck Turgidson]

but seriously would love to visit America, NYC, California, Vegas, Georgia etc. But the gun crime aspect kinda scares me   guess thats a whole 'nother debate huh?

Come visit, don't let a tilted tables of reporting scare you. The news media outside of the USA scours for every sort of gun crime headline and brings it up front and centre and holds it up high as if to say "See! Look at those yanks and the problems they're having with their guns!"
When in actuality, those problems exist in areas where those type of problems are constant and nobody visits there on purpose. All the beautiful places in America remain secure.

[somfan]

Come visit, don't let a tilted tables of reporting scare you. The news media outside of the USA scours for every sort of gun crime headline and brings it up front and centre and holds it up high as if to say "See! Look at those yanks and the problems they're having with their guns!"
When in actuality, those problems exist in areas where those type of problems are constant and nobody visits there on purpose. All the beautiful places in America remain secure.

I agree with Buck...the US is generally much safer and the inhabitants friendlier than what one would imagine based on what the media focuses on.
Crime rates are actually down in most of the nation. There are a few spectacular mass shootings --- which can happen anywhere at anytime, but that is not the norm.
- Somfan