Ethan Zuckerman: How to listen to global voices

[reubenshephe25]

I want this video on my KP110 unit.

[eweykidd13d]

This vid is a favorite on Chile

[GeracaodeValor]

GOOD

[rollozan]

14:30

[098anne]

So glad to hear this talk! The US is remarkably provincial in it's media outlook. It's horrible! I am american and I feel stranded on a delusional island most of the time. Our American arrogance is a giant problem and it's made worse instead of better by the media. We are not stupid, we are isolated and ignorant. As pathetic as it sounds it's true.

[HamOnCan]

and then you watch this, youtube

New York Times Hoax - The Yes Men Fix The World

and Nic Mark's The Happy Planet. .

and all I can say is BRING IT ON

[zassounotsukushi]

There is a bias in WHICH Wikipedia? Did you combine all the languages of Wikipedia before running the query?

That said, Global Voices is awesome and I've been reading it for years.

[stravos11]

I do know I made a few mistakes in those comments but I'm really sleepy now :P

[stravos11]

Also it's sort flexible and just intuitive, u can say stuff like "geek-o-meter" or add "ness" to the end of just about anything and even tho the words don't really exist u can just tell what they mean. I basicly learned english from watching movies and cartoons. I don't even think I even looked more than 10 words in the dictionary :P

[stravos11]

I'm not an American/Brit/Canadian and I do believe people in the US tend to think they are the center of the Universe and it's really sad and ignorant.

BUT I have no problem with everyone(world wide) learning english and having english like a global language. I find quite easy to learn and more material on it than any other, and I'm pretty sure it's most common 2nd lang.

[cannoir]

@stravos11 oh yeah they really think they are holier than thou don't they.especially the yanx. I am so over their arrogance.GRRR!!!!

[mooxim]

he makes an interesting point about getting trapped in flocks.

[dryan22]

It's not octopi, it's octopuses.

[CarlaMadrugada]

It would actually be cool if people just learned Esperanto. Then, every website could be in its native language and esperanto. It would make things simpler, cheaper and people wouldn't have to waste so much time translating stuff into so many different languages. I suggest Esperanto not only because its neutral (not a national language), but also because it has a logical grammar and can be learned in 6 months. Whereas national languages take many years. Nice idea. Great bridge language.

[majikninja07]

lol .1% in china, effective firewalls lol

[MrAlodah]

Great !

He is the guy

[orangepeelpeel]

i <3 xenophiles

[newday0531]

Talk about serendipity - got this referral from You Tube to edge me out of my flock based on my TED Talks subscription. Wonderful talk. People are my bridge. Happy to cross your path again.

[McSnookerman]

14:40 what social network was that?

[LanCaiMadowki]

@McSnookerman

reddit.com

[nublex]

only 5000 views? but this shit is mindblowing :-/ very interesting

[aniol1987]

@nublex I also was very surprised :)

[JLZR123]

Good Talk, Interesting Idea

[egokick]

As far as I'm concerned, the entire world can bend to my will before I even think about learning Chinese.

[countryroo123]

@egokick hehe...I don't think that that was his point. Maybe you're not interested in Chinese but maybe you like the idea of Spanish or French or Italian, so, in theory you could translate stuff from enlish to french or vice a versa.

[marcuelcajon]

Great Video.

[grimlock047]

what´'s this tweter you speak of?

[Alien5p]

It's all about the money.

[TheLiberalSoup]

wow. That is pretty cool

[earlyAMbirds]

ok but obama traveling around the world saying sorry for this "imaginary cosmoplitanism" is NOT ok. what's up with apologizing for who we are/were?

[Shaunt1]

Basically he's saying people don't know much about people outside their country and the internet doesn't change that much.

Language is usually the main reason, but I don't think this is. entirely accurate I think some websites better connect people of different languages and nationalities like a site that focuses on art.

[LokiClock]

This is what uncanny feels like. I have been kenned.

[xapemanx]

what a fatass

[CurtHowland]

I looked up "Caucasian-American" and found practically nothing.

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No wonder I don't use twitter. 

[rafaelhsouza]

Save the Galvão birds, hauahauahauahauah

[poopynonsense]

Too bad most of my fellow Americans wouldn't have the patience or the curiosity to watch this talk.

[napwashereagain]

narrow casting is the death of diversity.

[jxguy]

The thought must come first, the desire must arise first, the fear must be eliminated from the mind before any action would create meaningful manifestation of what is desired. I notice if there is no customers there is no market. There must be people who want this kind of information, else the information would not be of any use. Yah I heard it . . . SO? Yah I know . . . SO?

[scienceman83]

Its a fact that most people are interested in what happens closer to them than on the other side of the world. Its also a fact that the greatest barrier for true globalization is language.

[BionicDance]

I'll be a xenophile when we make contact with other planets, with alien species.

Until then, I'll just settle for not being a bigot. :)

[Leobons]

I missed the part where he stated something that isn't totally obvious

[MrBlamemeforit]

Its BEn Franklin!

[Darvinisti]

What was the point?

[BaileysBeads]

@Darvinisti The point is get the rest of the world wired up to the internet so we stop living in an americocentric world.

[Darvinisti]

@BaileysBeads So this was all about the states.

[briansmobile1]

Mormon missionaries are a great resource. They go places around the world that are radically different from where they are native. They also have done volunteer work for two years on their own tab. They have great language skills as well. I'm from Utah for example and I served in New Jersey among Spanish speaking Puerto Ricans as well as with Vietnamese. My Vietnamese name is Ahn Zhium. Later I served in Andra Pradesh, India speaking Telegu in the city of Begumbet, Hyderabad.

[shadman1911]

There is no such this has brazilian... they speak portuguese

[Johnfong1986]

The is something BIG!

[tenisplayer]

mexico rocks.

[aerobique]

great!

[thisscreensucks]

Food is the best way to experience other culture. or at least dip into it

[ThorstenTreffer]

well, it's the same with friends. you avoid people who are too different from you. it's not good, because it restricts your interaction your horizon. it's good, because generally this leads to good friends with whom you can have fun.

[elbimboqw]

we Asians are just spectators haaha ... 

[Pilaf1984]

He looks like Ben Franklin. He's got my vote.

[Kieku66]

Wierd...matt ridley was talking about the same thing he is...when sex has ideas

[Kieku66]

Real Life Babel Fish...need I say more

[P1ranh4]

Uhhh... of cooooouuuuursssseeee. Why is he the least bit surprised? To me this seems to be totally obvious. Start at 10min. It gets a little less obvious from there.

[tcorp]

This phenomena is analogous to group think. I had noticed it myself a few years ago when I was moving back and forth from one country to another. Media in each country depicts news in a way that centers around its audience. News media are rarely objective in their representation of global events and thus fail to recognize the significance of events beyond their borders. The subversive power of group think shouldn't be underestimated. In politics, group think led to Iraq's WMD Assessment.

[P1ranh4]

@tcorp True, for example: news about whale hunting is presented A LOT differently in Japan than in the west. It's really hard to discuss this subject with a Japanese, since most of them believe the west wants to force their food on them and take away their traditions.

[MChav7]

great talk

[kokofan50]

zuckerman would like the way manga works online.

[1schwererziehbar1]

liked for honesty about racial differences and military invasions.

[ShallowBeThyGames]

No wonder Americans think they're the centre of the universe.

[321lawc]

@ShallowBeThyGames That's center of the universe. Center.

[ShallowBeThyGames]

@321lawc Kudos

[groMMit1981]

@ShallowBeThyGames because the obescity epidemic is greatin a bunch of small cingularitues which will soon accumulate to one single black hole of human obescity and sink to the centre of earth?

[earlyAMbirds]

@ShallowBeThyGames we just are

[DuggabbooDC]

@ShallowBeThyGames Reminder: Not all of them. Only most.

[bioman123]

@ShallowBeThyGames It's spelled center, fool.

[ShallowBeThyGames]

@bioman123 It's called English, fool.

[AlwinSun95]

@bioman123

you just proved his point, centre is spelled centre in pretty much every English country minus america... fool

[derman077]

@ShallowBeThyGames It was an honest mistake. When you look out at galaxies they all seem to be flying away in all directions. I'm sure anywhere in the Universe we would have made the same assumption. "Sorry bout that" on behalf of America. Our entertainment is good, our food is bad. Our science is good too. (these bastards have put accountants in charge of the food. Do any of you know how or where to get "real" food here in the states? )

[YanmingYuMusic]

awesome...