| David Garcia on Wed, 3 May 2006 18:32:27 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> Latino political influence in the US? |
In Europe the mainstream media are representing the US approach to this issue as playing very differently from populist politics of Europe. And for once with more humanity and good sense. The general media perception from this side of the pond is that the issue does not seem to be polarize opinion along traditional left/right political lines in the US. The narrative of the US being a nation created by immigrants (however mythologized) seems to produce more realism among general popular opinion of the important contribution made by immigrants (legal and illegal) to US economy and society. And the mainstream European media are even representing Bush to some degree siding with the 'illegals'. So although the recent rise of the left in Latin America is momentous and influencing oppinion and across the world, I wonder whether this current US campaign is (as is often the case with US) more inward looking than Ben's post suggests. David # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]