without any background information this video is completely worthless. could be a test with 3 tons of cargo in the back or whatever. and stop bitching around against china when the only "proof" of the vehicle being from china is the statement in the beginning of the video made by someone who most probably doesn't even know where to find china on a world map.

I am german myself and have noticed the ever growing anti-americanism since 9/11. Especially on the internet there is a HUGE amount of people who see americans as stupid simpletons who all carry a gun, dont know where their own country is on a world map and are extremely arrogant.
They always talk about american imperialism, baby murdering soldiers in iraq, and other unbelievable bullshit as if thats the real USA.

I am extremely interested in this phenomenon, so I have researched quite a lot over the years. Heres what I learned:

Anti-Americanism was always present (since the USA was established). It just got suppressed by the cold war. Now that the war is over, everyone can voice their opinions freely again. And since so many east-europeans came over to the west it got worse too. Especially in germany its bad since it was the frontline of the cold war. Even our ruling chancellor is an ex-east-german. Germany is implementing more and more socialism into its system as we speak, and thats also a reason why we have so many problems here. The gap between rich and poor gets worse and worse, even though socialism is said to counter that. Not only that but our government starts to act like leaders of a socialism country. They ignore facts, they ignore their own laws, they decrease the rights of the people, they add new laws that could be from east germany and are only there to make more money, they simply only care for the rich people and themselves. But Im drifting away too much.

As I said anti americanism was always here in europe. Yes, Bush made it worse. But the stereotyping doesnt draw lines. Its not Bush or the government alone for these people, its the entire USA AND their allies. May it be polish, isrealis, whatever. If they are friends of the big bad USA, they are as bad.

Can you believe that some people want a strong european military to wipe america from the earth? They are actually afraid of america. They think america will invade europe some day. For oil of course.

Not all europeans think that way. Anti americanism was a minority before. Maybe peaked at 30%. Now its at about 60-70% because the media added so much to it. Thats frightening. But still its not all of europe. But this could be a horrible problem in the future when new generations that grew up with anti americanism fed to them start to show up in governments.

Some studies of several society-scientists I read claim that anti americanism very often comes hand in hand with anti semitism. Thats also very interesting, and fact is that I also noticed a huge increase in Israel bashing here in germany. Of course they dont admit that they are anti semitic (its criminal in germany to voice anti semitic opinions, so everyone watches what they say very carefully), but their comments show just that.

Ive also noticed that the poorer or less educated the person is, the higher is the chance that they are anti americans.

EDIT:
And if you dont believe me, learn german (or use a free translator), visit german news sites which allow comments (stern.de, shortnews.de, and several others) and look for a headline thats about the USA. You wont believe your eyes (or your translator).
This movie may be a little overdone, but its not so far from the truth as you think.

Thanks, yes I know. It indeed should give an idea of where the content on Videosift comes from. Mostly usa.
We already have 3 geographical channels, uk/canada/asia
While in my tag research
http://www.videosift.com/talk/Video-tag-cloud-a-quantitativequalitative-reseach
also french iraq japan japanese
were mentioned.
Then we have
-india +-73 posts
-china +-118
-brazil +-42
-australia(n) +-180
-new zealand +-38
-south africa +-22
-iran +-83
-korean +-53
-german +-180
Well, I could go on but I'm afraid the distribution could be quite similar to the map, but with more focus on uk/canada/japan (and france) because of their pop culture.

In reply to this comment by winkler1:
you know about the world map, right?
http://www.videosift.com/usermap

In reply to this comment by Eklek:
For those looking for world news try some of these
http://www.newspapers24.com/
http://www.worldpress.org/
http://www.worldpress.org/gateway.htm
http://www.ipsnews.net/

PS: Would be interesting to see the geographical distribution of Videosift posts..

you know about the world map, right?
http://www.videosift.com/usermap

In reply to this comment by Eklek:
For those looking for world news try some of these
http://www.newspapers24.com/
http://www.worldpress.org/
http://www.worldpress.org/gateway.htm
http://www.ipsnews.net/

PS: Would be interesting to see the geographical distribution of Videosift posts..

Exact transcription... we worked hard on this!

"Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is."

"I personally believe that you as Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education, like such as South Africa, and the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, our education over here, in the U.S., should help the U.S., er, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for our children."

The stats are NOT wrong. 1 in 5 cannot find US on a world map.

Here's more from the CNN 2002 report. http://archives.cnn.com/2002/EDUCATION/11/20/geography.quiz/
Among 18- to 24-year-old Americans given maps:
87 percent cannot find Iraq
83 percent cannot find Afghanistan
76 percent cannot find Saudi Arabia
70 percent cannot find New Jersey
49 percent cannot find New York
11 percent cannot find the United States


The stats of 20% are probably from 2006-7 and maybe even teens not 18-24.

If you are an atheist feeling oppressed by religious communities, you are paying far too much attention to other people's business.

I happen to live in a similar place, and I'm glad thats the case.

But, I am also a world citizen, and religion is poisoning this world, there are millions of children, who are raised and labelled a particular religion every day, and because we have stood idly by and just smiled for so long, they arent gonna stop, non-believers need to speak up, if for no other reason than to show we exists, and we are not monsters. many people who are raised [insert your religion] are never shown the alternatives, they are never encouraged to think for themselves, and sometimes even willingly deceived, just to prevent them from being "lured by the devil" etc.

We feel the need to speak up, voice our concerns, and rock the boat a little. I know I wont convert people into my world view, I just want to spark some thoughts, thats all.

I believe the entire human race will benefit from an honest quest for truth, and morality, and the only way to get there, is by understanding the world better. Things like racism, just to take an example, become meaningless, not because some holy book says it should be, but because we understand we are all mammal primates with different skin pigments living on the same cooling surface of a rock, separated by a difference in DNA so small it cant even possibly count. This knowledge allows us to assess, with confidence, that we, all humans, should be considered equals. Compare that to the time when Europeans thought all blacks lived near the edge of the flat earth, and that somehow this pigment deviation meant all the difference in the world..

People who say science has nothing to do with morals or values, could not be more wrong. What we know about the world, directly affects our attitude towards it.

Jesus never saw the world map. Think about that for 2 seconds.

Yes, that is a very good quote from Jesus, and he far exceeded anyone else in moral standards at that time, and some of the universal stuff still apply to this day, which is why I said he truly represent one of the all-time greatest moral philosophers. However, even with these glimpses of absolute brilliance, its not a good idea to leave it up to Jesus or the Bible to determine our moral standards. What I would suggest, that I think Dawkins would agree with, is that our morals should be based on a 21st century debate on the issue, with 21st century knowledge as our basis, that we can move on from religious dogma, and find better, more reasonable moral foundations. If we scrapped the bible and went by todays thought and heart, we simply wouldnt have all these ridiculous issues we are currently struggling with, issues that an enlightened 21st century view would render a non-issue. IE: Should we promote condom use, or let half a continent die from AIDS? Should we be allowed to destroy a 150-celled* blastocyst to save the lives of thousands of suffering children? Did God give certain middle-eastern real-estate to the jews or to the arabs? Ok, that'd still be an issue probably, but you get my point.

Also the most devouted Christians doesnt seem to have a problem breaking away from these Jesus-rules, Which suggests to me, that instead if we had similar concepts, developed in todays standards, with firm logic and modern reasoning, backing by studies etc, would possibly enable us to truly develop new standards of morality, perhaps allow us to be more conscious about our moral philosophy, and the direction it might take us.

*For reference, the brain of a fly has 100.000 cells.



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“What Jesus said was "You have heard that it was said, “You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.” But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

You're right. It's easy to love your neighbor. Jesus took it a step further, however. "Love your enemies." That's big time. It's a huge stretch for people. My point was, even though that was proposed 2,000 years ago, we aren't there yet. Is that what Dawkins is proposing? That we love our enemies? I don't think we are as advanced as he wishes we were.

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In reply to your comment:
“Well, Jesus never condemned slavery, and said the homophobic, racist, sexist, genocidal laws of the old testament should be followed through to the last word. So when he says stuff like "Love thy neighbor" he really means only other jews and people who fully embrace the scriptures.

However, he is still among the greatest moral philosophers of all time, because we have to remember that he lived in a very tribal, small and dangerous world. Jesus didnt know, for instance, what the world map looked like. A random 10 year old today knows more about how the world works than Jesus ever did.

We are having conversations here literally over distances Jesus didnt even know about, across seas and continents that for all he knew could lead to the gates of hell if he traveled far enough. We no longer see "the far east" as some distant, far-off abyss we've never been to, instead, we are more likely to have Japanese friends on facebook. It goes without saying that our ability to see this planet as one, small speck in the midst of a gigantic universe, changes our perspective radically, this kind of knowledge and leap in communication accounts for the rapid movement of the moral zeitgeist for the last couple of hundred years. ””

What Jesus said was "You have heard that it was said, “You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.” But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

You're right. It's easy to love your neighbor. Jesus took it a step further, however. "Love your enemies." That's big time. It's a huge stretch for people. My point was, even though that was proposed 2,000 years ago, we aren't there yet. Is that what Dawkins is proposing? That we love our enemies? I don't think we are as advanced as he wishes we were.

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In reply to your comment:
“Well, Jesus never condemned slavery, and said the homophobic, racist, sexist, genocidal laws of the old testament should be followed through to the last word. So when he says stuff like "Love thy neighbor" he really means only other jews and people who fully embrace the scriptures.

However, he is still among the greatest moral philosophers of all time, because we have to remember that he lived in a very tribal, small and dangerous world. Jesus didnt know, for instance, what the world map looked like. A random 10 year old today knows more about how the world works than Jesus ever did.

We are having conversations here literally over distances Jesus didnt even know about, across seas and continents that for all he knew could lead to the gates of hell if he traveled far enough. We no longer see "the far east" as some distant, far-off abyss we've never been to, instead, we are more likely to have Japanese friends on facebook. It goes without saying that our ability to see this planet as one, small speck in the midst of a gigantic universe, changes our perspective radically, this kind of knowledge and leap in communication accounts for the rapid movement of the moral zeitgeist for the last couple of hundred years. ”

Well, Jesus never condemned slavery, and said the homophobic, racist, sexist, genocidal laws of the old testament should be followed through to the last word. So when he says stuff like "Love thy neighbor" he really means only other jews and people who fully embrace the scriptures.

However, he is still among the greatest moral philosophers of all time, because we have to remember that he lived in a very tribal, small and dangerous world. Jesus didnt know, for instance, what the world map looked like. A random 10 year old today knows more about how the world works than Jesus ever did.

We are having conversations here literally over distances Jesus didnt even know about, across seas and continents that for all he knew could lead to the gates of hell if he traveled far enough. We no longer see "the far east" as some distant, far-off abyss we've never been to, instead, we are more likely to have Japanese friends on facebook. It goes without saying that our ability to see this planet as one, small speck in the midst of a gigantic universe, changes our perspective radically, this kind of knowledge and leap in communication accounts for the rapid movement of the moral zeitgeist for the last couple of hundred years.

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I'd love to know how many interviews they did to get those gems.

Also, how come he had the fake map with the correct country name in place of Australia? A guy says Iran and we see the world map with Australia labelled as Iran - handy! Was there a hundred thousand interviews and they showed the ones where the answer was stupid and the stupid answer happened to match the fake map? Or was there ten interviews, a script, and a $100 appearance fee each...