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 Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 5:17 pm
Yes, many places in Amreica are beautiful. As someone who lived in Alaska for six or seven years, I can certainly attest to that. whee
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:18 pm
evabh Magic Pie I live in Australia, and I haven't learnt anything at all about America OR England neutral Australia. There's another country we never learn much about in the U.S. A lot of people here hear Australia, and think Crocodile Dundee. And now of course they think of LOST. What TV shows are popular in Australia? Then Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, Neighbours, CSI, CSI Miami, NCS, Law and Order, Home and Away, Surface, Threshold, American Dad, LOST. Barely any comedies though ):
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:19 pm
starlit_jewel Magic Pie I live in Australia, and I haven't learnt anything at all about America OR England neutral Ooooh, Australia! whee I've seen it on the telly which was trying to entice people to go there and it hooked me, lol! That's another place I want to travel to, see Sydney, the Great Barrier Reef, Ayres (sp?) Rock... 4laugh Gee, compared to other countries England is pretty boring... stare sweatdrop I used to live in Sydney, moved to Queensland though. The Great Barrier Reef's beautiful and Ayers Rock...well...It's just a big rock neutral
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:54 am
evabh Just watching Red Dwarf, Seven 7, Tikka to Ride, and I have a question about how England teaches American history. I assume from the show that British people know a lot about John F Kennedy and his assassination, or it wouldn't make sense to put it in Red Dwarf. If the show was about a British politician I probably wouldn't have a clue (except for Churchill & Thatcher- they're both so cool!) Do schools in Englnd teach a lot of American history? Or is it a media thing, like doumentaries? I studied history under the English education system until I was 18, and I'd say that it's more of an external media/culture issue. As the most famous assassination of last century and an enduring conspiracy theory, JFK's an iiconographic figure who gets a lot of coverage on both sides of the Atlantic. If he was merely a historical personality, like Churchill, then I think that he really would be restricted to history books. As it is, he's an enigma who's sort of transcended that, and into popular culture.
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 7:19 am
Are there a lot of conspiracy theories popular in England (or anywhere outside the U.S.)?
We've got so many here. The JFJ assassination, Area 51 (military hangar supposedly containing the remains of an alien ship and possibly aliens), the A. Lincoln assassination, the Men in Black (government men who specialize in contact with aliens- yes, just like in the movie "Men in Black"). What conspiracy theories are popular in everyone else's area?
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