ext_12659 ([identity profile] selenak.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] selenak 2004-08-03 02:39 am (UTC)

No, why? (Aside from the public perception of Third World countries being rather the reverse - if you think of India, you don't think of the BJP higher-ups, you think of the poor, and if you think of African country X, you don't think of dictator Y but of dozens of photos of starving children.)

Incidentally, I was not talking of myself. Visiting the US on a regular basis and having friends in some of the poorer regions forms a quite different image than what is transported via the media (on both sides of the Atlantic). But you notice in conversation over here that many people tend to go for the media image.

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