PBS should teach Americans about the world

Submitted by Brian Smith (United States), Dec 18, 2002 at 17:04

I think its great that PBS is teaching Americans about other religions and other peoples. That is the goal of public broadcasting. It's educational television.

Americans are woefully underinformed about any topic that does not include some Christian or American perspectives. If 9-11 taught us nothing else it's that we better begin learning about the rest of the world. Or it will come back to haunt us.
How many Americans can even find Afghanistan or Iraq on a map?

We cannot live in an ignorant "gated community" forever. American must finally join the world and try to understand "why they hate us." Without this understanding we are doomed to the fate of Imperial Rome.

America needs to take it down a notch. We are just another country, not the best, not the worst. And Christianity is just another belief system. Other religions are just as valid and real. We need to respect other people in the world and quit acting like we run the world, because that is what creates terrorism.

Educational TV that teaches about other faiths and cultures can begin that learning process and help make us citizens of the world.

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