April 6, 2002

11:10 AM

Granta 77: What We Think of America. 24 answers, which the literary magazine commissioned from writers across the globe. Audio overview from Public Radio International. A visitor from Zimbabwe's opinion.
posted by sheauga (2 comments total)

I thought for a minute that Haim Chertok was ParisParamus. That's not you is it Paris?
posted by Summer at 11:39 AM on April 6, 2002

Twain was rightly offended that Europe didn’t take America seriously. These days we may find equally offensive the degree to which America remains staunchly ignorant and dismissive of the ninety per cent of the planet that is not the United States. (In this respect the US media mostly play a dismal role. The Evil Empire’s citizens were often far better informed about the world than Americans generally are.)

James Hamilton-Paterson
Britain
posted by y2karl at 4:46 PM on April 7, 2002