Posted by
Karen Spencer on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 11:48:28 PM
Have you ever visited YouTube lately? And read the comments? Either I am getting extremely old or no can write anymore. And Americans are extremely angry and negative. Almost 1 million people see 2 to 5 minutes of a edited video clip, and than comment, scream, rant, rave, and abuse whoever below the video clip. It goes like this: Lo, U F#&@ dance like a pig. Your speech makes all politicans look like @$#%# dunce. And so on. And if the person is drunk, the more people watch it.
Freedom of speech is a wonderful part of our culture. What worries me is the amount of anger. If it's not anger, the need to up-manship. And the need to have the last word.
Don't get me wrong, some of these videos are great fun. Emmitt Smith doing MC Hammer was classic. And I love watching the animal videos.
However, where are people learning how to communicate in the same language in American? Do we need to learn a variety of English? If so, I guess I'm game. However, as a teacher, tell me now, I need to grade papers.