Originally Posted by
ecojeanne
i agree it would be a wonderful world if people didnt have to struggle to make ends meet and be able to pay more attention to what their kids read and watch......kids growing up now are a third generation of minipulation....think about that.....i am able to objectively see whats happening because i havent grown up with this extreme atmosphere.....i lived in New York for a year and almost immediately i saw the extreme minipulation around me in advertising...also some people really struggle to make ends meet....it was an extreme rat race....people seemed too busy backstabbing people to have enough to eat than to pay attention to ridiculous biased media and minipulation around them...its very easy to minipulate people with longterm constant messages especially if their parents and their parents before them have been minipulated.....needless to say i left....i knew it wasnt somewhere i wanted to live the rest of my life....but my problem is that America is everywhere because of their corporations....thanks goodness i live in Ireland and Europe for that matter. I got the green card and i thought wow ......America! the land where anything can happen! i was excited to go but i soon realised having been there a while yes indeed ANYTHING can happen. This is my opinion based on healthy outlook on life and research and my own experiences
I live in New York City, and alot of New Yorkers would laugh at this characterization of it. New York City is really quite like Paris, London, Tokyo, and many other big cities around the world. We all have our crime and we all have our economic and social differences. New York is not full of "backstabbing" and urban blight. Sure there are dangerous neighborhoods, but it's an extremely diverse city and your characterization of it is very small-minded.
This is such stereotypical view of New York. I'm surprised that you actually lived there for a year and have this view.
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