Posted on 09/10/2002 5:04:51 AM PDT by SJackson
Terrorism is likely to continue against the United States because teenagers around the world view Americans negatively, due in large part to American movies, TV and popular music, a Boston University study said yesterday.
There's apparently little that can be done immediately to change the widespread negative attitudes of these anti-American teens, the breeding ground for future terrorist acts against the United States, the study's authors say.
"There appears to be a significant probability that the threat of terrorist acts against Americans will continue in the years ahead," BU professors Margaret H. DeFleur and Melvin L. DeFleur said in their study.
"It would take some triggering incident and the presence of messianic militant groups to ignite, but it's a collective perception with the scary potential of becoming a bloody reality when these global teens come of age."
The DeFleurs based their conclusions on responses from 1,259 high school students from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, South Korea, Mexico, China, Spain, Taiwan, the Dominican Republic, Pakistan, Nigeria, Italy and Argentina.
Teens in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain held the most negative views, closely followed by those in South Korea and Mexico. Teens from Nigeria and Italy were generally neutral, while only in Argentina did teens view Americans somewhat favorably.
The shared negative beliefs and attitudes create a hard-to-crack foundation for breeding future terrorism, the authors said.
For the attitudes to erupt into terrorist action, they must be combined with religious differences, provocative incidents by the United States and the existence of militants bent on harming Americans, the DeFleurs said.
The foreign teens generally viewed Americans as violent, materialistic, dominating, disrespectful to those unlike them, not generous, lacking concern for the poor, without strong family values and not peaceful.
They also believe many Americans engage in criminal activities and American women are sexually immoral, according to the study.
"The findings suggest that problems for Americans are likely to continue into the foreseeable future in terms of terrorism threats," the researchers said.
The DeFleurs also said that while it is clear that these teens developed their understandings and interpretations of Americans from American movies, TV, video games, and music CDs, "gaining some sort of easy way to manipulate that complex communication process that will produce (positive) results quickly seems most unlikely."
While possibilities for immediate action by Americans are limited, the authors suggest there may be long-term remedies.
The full report can be found at the Web site: The Next Generations image of Americans (http://bu.edu/news/releases/2002/defleur/report.pdf)
I thought that's why Hollywood was created...........something else we can thank the left for.
As opposed to their own cultures which are violent, dominating, disrespectful to those unlike them, not generous, lacking concern for the poor, without strong family values and not peaceful.
OK, now I understand.
PAX AMERICANUS!
The only person to do more harm to the public's perception of conservativism then McCarthy was Nixon. Having seen the damage that McCarthy did before, your neighbors would be absolutely right to think that you are nuts for wanting another McCarthy.
Wake up Amerika!
Why are you spelling "America" like some punk lefty college kid?
Great, we're inundated with almost unlimited immigration from *one* of these nations, I feel so *safe* when I hear about amnesties for the poor undocumented workers who just want to pursue the 'American dream'...
The liberal media/elite always had their sights set on taking Nixon down for his role in exposing the elite communist spies in our system. Go read your history.
There is. The system recognized him as a threat, so they put him in prison. James Traficant. I'd vote for him. Did you notice what handful of good guys in Congress got bumped this election merry-go-round?
That's more a result of liberal propaganda than anything Nixon or McCarthy did. McCarthy was right and Nixon just tried to get a hold of historical papers the Dems were holding. It isn't anything compared to the crimes of the Democrats since the 1960s. See Mary Jo Kepechne, Marilyn Monroe, union racketeering, Chinese military treason, Juanita Broadrick, the murder of Foster and Brown for examples.
I's a fact Zero.
This once great Constructional Republic has been hacked into pieces beginning with Lincoln.
Amerika!
We have been bankrupted by communists members of Congress who openly declare their anti-Capitalist, anti-border, anti-Constitution, anti-family, anti-Christian ethic, anti-Citizen self-protection from government intrusion, and their anti-freedom of assembly and communication.
Take the blinders pal. There's a war going on in Amerika, and complete control of you is the goal!!!
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