The percent of Americans who said in exit polls in 2024 that foreign policy was their top issue when choosing between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris was less than 5%.
Ignorance is bliss, and ignorance will always be the domain of the young and foolish. But thankfully spring breakers hardly represent the average young American 🇺🇸
Exactly. We have to remember it's the worst cases that the media reports; as such, they tend not to be representative of the whole (or even particularly common).
Sorry this is a bit long! I agree that the spring break video, with the constructed presentation (splicing of added music and video of political figures) is hilarious. It definitely made me laugh. And youth of course is the time of blooming, so this is a Spring break snapshot of America’s not only hilarious but also pathetic field of blooming youth. The time of blooming is usually the sweetest, though all too short, part of a whole life. These young adults are not so much living it up as throwing it away. Remember the song from Miranda's musical “Hamilton:" "I’m not giving up my shot!” Oh yes, these young adults very much are. And not just in their Spring Break—it takes many years of previous miseducation to become that ignorant and to acquire such poor judgement.
Is the idea, in labelling it “adorable," a clear overestimation that the American university “scholars" have so much “privilege” (as prosperous Americans, as well as mostly white—though striving to be browner!) that they can afford to throw a part of their blooming youth away?
Every single Indian I know in India, and every single Indian, Chinese, and Vietnamese immigrant I know in the U.S., would find this video abhorrent (and not funny), and would hold it up as proof of their confirmation bias that American/Western/Judeo-Christian culture is deeply inferior to Indian Hindu and Chinese Buddhist and Vietnamese Buddhist cultures. They would (and on the whole very much do) conclude that, employers are right to have so little trust in hiring American college graduates, and would do better (after first hiring their own better brought up Asian-American college graduates) to just keep on importing and hiring students out of Asia, where the Indian and Chinese students are superior not only by being “of color,” (with no need to tan) but even more because they know better than to give up their chance (that short window of their youth and blooming). And so many Americans don’t know any better. Like the Aesop’s fable of “The Ant and the Grasshopper,” but in this scenario it is the American college students drinking and “getting with” the opposite sex, while the international (Chinese and Indian) college students work hard and build up for their own solid futures.
As an educator and a mother, I would be horrified if my students or my own young adult children behaved like the college students in the video. If the video would only be “adorable" as long as it wasn’t my own kids or my own students behaving like that, then I would be a hypocrite to label it “adorable.” The video is hilarious as a meme, but pathetic as the real truth that it is about modern American culture.
Thank you, Batya. Americans are experts on self-love (look at their politicians), but mostly ignorant about the world (look at their liberal experts!).
Different time now. My college spring break was also spent looking for love, wine, and weed which was pretty much a normal daily pursuit in college too. BUT we had just gone through the night of fear with the draft lottery and some of my hanging out acquaintances were survivors of the War coming back to college so we got a first hand understanding of what was happening. So, we marched on Washington and the War college. What is a little tear gas, right!
I used to be disgusted and dismayed by how unplugged from the world most college age kids were but these days I am mostly relieved when I hear it. I used to mostly trust the MSM and believe that they at least tried to convey truth. The way the NYT, NPR, CNN, and the BBC covered the Gaza war cured me of that misconception. Now I see the lies every time I turn on the TV.
You're probably right that most people don't hate the MSM enough. Maybe ignoring the news - like these kids - is better than hating.
Really, she has a show, just so everyone can be stupid? Hmmm…Those following her are probably mostly interested in history, politics, foreign and domestic policy, and economic decisions affecting most Americans. Surely you understand, she is reminding us that we are the exception—many Americans are living their lives without the regular interest in the topics she devotes her time to discussing and covering as a journalist.
Ignorance is bliss, and ignorance will always be the domain of the young and foolish. But thankfully spring breakers hardly represent the average young American 🇺🇸
Exactly. We have to remember it's the worst cases that the media reports; as such, they tend not to be representative of the whole (or even particularly common).
Exactly. Sex and crazy sells. It's all about ratings! 😂
Sorry this is a bit long! I agree that the spring break video, with the constructed presentation (splicing of added music and video of political figures) is hilarious. It definitely made me laugh. And youth of course is the time of blooming, so this is a Spring break snapshot of America’s not only hilarious but also pathetic field of blooming youth. The time of blooming is usually the sweetest, though all too short, part of a whole life. These young adults are not so much living it up as throwing it away. Remember the song from Miranda's musical “Hamilton:" "I’m not giving up my shot!” Oh yes, these young adults very much are. And not just in their Spring Break—it takes many years of previous miseducation to become that ignorant and to acquire such poor judgement.
Is the idea, in labelling it “adorable," a clear overestimation that the American university “scholars" have so much “privilege” (as prosperous Americans, as well as mostly white—though striving to be browner!) that they can afford to throw a part of their blooming youth away?
Every single Indian I know in India, and every single Indian, Chinese, and Vietnamese immigrant I know in the U.S., would find this video abhorrent (and not funny), and would hold it up as proof of their confirmation bias that American/Western/Judeo-Christian culture is deeply inferior to Indian Hindu and Chinese Buddhist and Vietnamese Buddhist cultures. They would (and on the whole very much do) conclude that, employers are right to have so little trust in hiring American college graduates, and would do better (after first hiring their own better brought up Asian-American college graduates) to just keep on importing and hiring students out of Asia, where the Indian and Chinese students are superior not only by being “of color,” (with no need to tan) but even more because they know better than to give up their chance (that short window of their youth and blooming). And so many Americans don’t know any better. Like the Aesop’s fable of “The Ant and the Grasshopper,” but in this scenario it is the American college students drinking and “getting with” the opposite sex, while the international (Chinese and Indian) college students work hard and build up for their own solid futures.
As an educator and a mother, I would be horrified if my students or my own young adult children behaved like the college students in the video. If the video would only be “adorable" as long as it wasn’t my own kids or my own students behaving like that, then I would be a hypocrite to label it “adorable.” The video is hilarious as a meme, but pathetic as the real truth that it is about modern American culture.
Thank you, Batya. Americans are experts on self-love (look at their politicians), but mostly ignorant about the world (look at their liberal experts!).
Thanks
This is on the money: let kids be kids. It's up to parents/grandparents to give them a shot at the future.
A Godless & clueless culture.
Different time now. My college spring break was also spent looking for love, wine, and weed which was pretty much a normal daily pursuit in college too. BUT we had just gone through the night of fear with the draft lottery and some of my hanging out acquaintances were survivors of the War coming back to college so we got a first hand understanding of what was happening. So, we marched on Washington and the War college. What is a little tear gas, right!
Thank you for this.
I used to be disgusted and dismayed by how unplugged from the world most college age kids were but these days I am mostly relieved when I hear it. I used to mostly trust the MSM and believe that they at least tried to convey truth. The way the NYT, NPR, CNN, and the BBC covered the Gaza war cured me of that misconception. Now I see the lies every time I turn on the TV.
You're probably right that most people don't hate the MSM enough. Maybe ignoring the news - like these kids - is better than hating.
I vote on foreign policy.
You want Americans to be stupid so that they will not protest imperialist wars.
Really, she has a show, just so everyone can be stupid? Hmmm…Those following her are probably mostly interested in history, politics, foreign and domestic policy, and economic decisions affecting most Americans. Surely you understand, she is reminding us that we are the exception—many Americans are living their lives without the regular interest in the topics she devotes her time to discussing and covering as a journalist.
Spoken like a true <4%.
You think that you are superior because of you've immersed yourself in left wing rhetoric. You're not.
But smug people like you are succeeding in pushing more and more normal voters away from the Democratic party so pleeeease - keep it up.