Bowen Beecher

4/5/11

This article is very interesting. It talks about a specific case in Uzbekistan in which one man was charged for slandering and insulting their people. He was charged with a prison sentence of up to three years.  The pictures included children lying in a mud-floored house. It implies that the children live there, but more than likely he just went inside out of curiosity.

The key point of this is that the media may expose the more negative side of a situation. You should not take everything you hear to heart. I thought it was very interesting that someone actually took action and exposed someone for something that has been going on for years. I agree that people should try and focus more on the positive and beautiful parts of other cultures instead of the negative. Nobody is perfect and homeless people exist in the US too. There are also a lot of people who are poor and hungry or live in violent parts of town.  Every time you look on National Geographic you find albums about other nations and it shows all the negative views of their society. This article really brings the matter to your attention.