{"id":1328,"date":"2003-06-19T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-19T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2021-05-22T19:19:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T23:19:36","slug":"what-the-world-thinks-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/06\/19\/what-the-world-thinks-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>What the World Thinks of America<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/tvbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; I finally got to see a tape of this show. It was broadcast on CBET, in Windsor Canada, on Tuesday at 9 PM; and it took a look at what eleven countries think of America nowadays. I was somewhat disappointed that the show was based simply on a poll &#8212; the results of which can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/america\/poll.html\">seen here<\/a> &#8212; rather than on on-the-street interviews or expert opinon. But the show was still interesting.  I was taken aback to find out South Korea views the US rather than North Korea as a bigger threat; and I was chagrined to hear that world opinion (at least the Australian analyst&#8217;s) mistakes the <i>Springer<\/i> show [<i>gag<\/i>] for American culture.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; By the way, a note to any international visitors: Coca Cola and McDonald&#8217;s are not coming to your country for political reasons. They just want your money.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I finally got to see a tape of this show. It was broadcast on CBET, in Windsor Canada, on Tuesday at 9 PM; and it took a look at what eleven countries think of America nowadays. I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/06\/19\/what-the-world-thinks-of-america\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}