01-13-2010, 06:14 AM
davester wrote:
The reason is because the propaganda organizations (Fox News and the like) have used absurd caricatures of the Europeans as a tool to polarize people. Historically this is a very basic and commonly used propaganda tool. Most of us who have lived in Europe understand that those caricatures are completely false.
^most accurate answer IMO^
Similar to the use of obscure European countries as the setting for bizarre tabloid stories-- if there's a haunted toaster it's going to be in Albania, if there's a 101 year-old woman who's given birth it's going to be in Lichtenstein.
Ironically the European tabloids place every such occurrence in Florida.