bush blair bhai-bhai and other things american and indian

another 4 yrs of the blair and bush love story... what a pity for this world.

i met someone who said that since what america does affects the rest of the world so much, all the countries should have a few votes during the presidential election or atleast a veto. i found that hilarious. there goes your sovereignity(sp?). but there is a fragment of logic in that.

check out http://www.americans-world.org/index.cfm . its scary how much public opinion in america is against what their own government is doing.

another issue that has been raked up by many in india is the spread of american culture - my grandmother claims to dislike it. but this is what that site had to say about americans opinion of their culture spreading -

"Polls show that Americans generally have a positive view of US culture. In the October 1999 PIPA poll, a strong majority (60%) said they had a favorable view of "American popular culture, such as music, television, and films" (21% had a very favorable opinion). Thirty-nine percent found it to be unfavorable (14% very unfavorable)."

this was '99 so i guess things would have changed a lot since then.

also at the same time - "a near-unanimous majority (91%) agreed, "the global economy makes it more important than ever for all of us to understand people who are different than ourselves." This is hardly an endorsement of US cultural imperialism."

confused, i am.

there are no new polls that say anything about this topic. there is also the question of how representative a poll is really? case in point, indian exit polls. that was a real hahahahahahahahaha. it was actually fun to watch the all-knowing NDTV chaps totally shocked. rajdeep s. looked so lost. bharkha d. whaaaa.... srinivasan j. wtf?....

HAHAHAHAHA

so much fun.