In an unrelated post...

I understand how media has become a life force for the world. I am a consumer of the media everyday, I know it and admit I am addicted to social media and the news.

But there is something happening in the US that disturbs me. The United States and its people need to realize that there are other countries in the world. And while their day to day life may not affect Americans directly, we still need to be listening. There is blood being shed by civilians in a fight for democracy and an attempt to join the EU in the Ukraine. The peace talks in Syria are on unstable ground. And not once on my newsfeed on Facebook  have I seen anything about either big story.  I hear about some football player ranting after winning a football game  from at least 10 different friends. And had he taken a moment to have said something meaningful and worldly, I wouldn't have to get on my soapbox every time something like this happens. I could spend hours and days listing all the things that American do wrong. But rather, in light of Martin Luther King day in the US, if we only stand by, we are enabling those to continue to do harm.  

As the said most powerful country in the world, how good are we if we don't use that power for good? Use the education that some people only dream about, use the media on your smart whatever that costs more than some people will make in their life, and realize we are not alone, and there are so many more people in the world than our 50 states. People who only dream about what we have as rights and liberties. People who are fighting and praying for more than days off work, Superbowl games and their online show to load. 

Be something more than the American who only talks about sports and reality tv. Be the American who can hold a conversation about somethig not pretaining to he US. Be the American who knows what the capital of Canada is.