Interested in what the world thinks of America?

[TechBear_Seattle]

http://watchingamerica.com/News/index.html

From their "About Us" page:

WatchingAmerica reflects global opinion about the United States, helping Americans and non-Americans alike understand what the world thinks of current issues that involve the U.S. This is done by providing news and views about the United States published in other countries.

It is not our purpose to find favorable or unfavorable content, but to reflect as accurately as possible how others perceive the richest and most powerful country in the world. We have no political agenda.

WatchingAmerica makes available in English articles written about the U.S. by foreigners, often for foreign audiences, and often in other languages. Since WatchingAmerica offers its own translations, regular users of our site will enjoy articles not available in English anywhere else. We are a unique window into world opinion.

In addition, by integrating the latest translation technology into the site, visitors are able to surf all of the content of foreign-language news outlets at the push of a button - in English.

The site is updated frequently.

Is anyone familiar with this site? Is it generally reliable?

[alfredo]

1. I see they need Arabic translators. I passed that info on to some of

my friends who did that in the Army.

[jojo54]

2. I bookmarked this site. Veerrryyy interesting!

[ben_meyers]

3. The Ugly American

The United States has never been loved around the world. I read this novel in high school, and that was before Viet Nam!

The Ugly American is the title of a 1958 political novel by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer. It became a bestseller, was influential at the time, and is still in print.

The book takes place in a fictional nation known as Sarkhan. In the novel, a Burmese journalist says "For some reason, the people I meet in my country are not the same as the ones I knew in the United States. A mysterious change seems to come over Americans when they go to a foreign land. They isolate themselves socially. They live pretentiously. They're loud and ostentatious." The phrase "ugly Americans" came to be applied to Americans behaving in this manner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ugly_American

[tom_paine]

4. Unfortunately, now that our nation is lawless and an Inverted Totalitarianism

ruled by tyrants, preparing another phony "election" to coronate Emperor McSameAsBush...

...if they don't hate and fear us like we hated and feared the Nazis or the Soviet Union, then they are simply not paying attention.