The American media can be held responsible for the 80% ignorant (about non-american matters) society. Fortunately the 20% that are knowledgeable are really good. Unfortunately so long as "news is sold", "ratings control TV", and the sad crave by the american public for some "worse than us" society where we can "do good" to "feel better", this 80% will tend towards infinity.
On the internet, america has also taught the world the meaning and continue to lead in harmful predatory pornography, pedophilia and many other evils that exclude email scam.
Now the above comments show what stereotype sounds like. Satire or not it does not sound nice.
There are criminals everywhere the scam emails only reflect that in the last 5 to 10 yars of the internet, emails have been the main converging point. Fortunately today there is voip, im, blogging, video sharing etc that will shape the next 5 - 10 years.
As internet access becomes more available this change will be more rapid whether google does free wifi in mt view or san fransisco usa or abuja nigeria, it is all the same.
Google will profit in the long term, more folks will find use for the internet that will drown the volume of email scams and a number of folks on this thread will find beter use for their humor than bashing well meaning nigerians simply because they recieved an email allegedly from nigeria.
In my mailbox, emails about ciallis, viagra, pornography and money scams all mean the same thing - SPAM (btw ciallis is no 1 for 3rd year) as opposed to "a certain people are bad". It is SPAM.
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The American media can be held responsible for the 80% ignorant (about non-american matters) society. Fortunately the 20% that are knowledgeable are really good. Unfortunately so long as "news is sold", "ratings control TV", and the sad crave by the american public for some "worse than us" society where we can "do good" to "feel better", this 80% will tend towards infinity.
On the internet, america has also taught the world the meaning and continue to lead in harmful predatory pornography, pedophilia and many other evils that exclude email scam.
Now the above comments show what stereotype sounds like. Satire or not it does not sound nice.
There are criminals everywhere the scam emails only reflect that in the last 5 to 10 yars of the internet, emails have been the main converging point. Fortunately today there is voip, im, blogging, video sharing etc that will shape the next 5 - 10 years.
As internet access becomes more available this change will be more rapid whether google does free wifi in mt view or san fransisco usa or abuja nigeria, it is all the same.
Google will profit in the long term, more folks will find use for the internet that will drown the volume of email scams and a number of folks on this thread will find beter use for their humor than bashing well meaning nigerians simply because they recieved an email allegedly from nigeria.
In my mailbox, emails about ciallis, viagra, pornography and money scams all mean the same thing - SPAM (btw ciallis is no 1 for 3rd year) as opposed to "a certain people are bad". It is SPAM.