Life in Sudan

A short, 2-minute video on life in South Sudan. This video was created in January of this year. Currently, the South's secession is much further underway.

Osama Bin Laden Comparison

WESTERN MEDIA

Time.com story
Inside the Osama bin Laden Strike: How America Got Its Man:
Even the title hints at American Pride. Time magazine has built a strong reputation as being having well-reported and mostly unbiased reports. However, how can an American magazine be completely impartial when its country just killed the man responsible for thousands of innocent deaths on its soil a decade earlier?

Bin Laden's compound where U.S forces found and killed the leader of Al Qaida on May 1, 2011, almost a full decade after the attacks on the World Trade Center. 

The story doesn't ask questions like 'Why the hell did it take ten years to find this guy?' It simply told how "we got him."

In just a thousand words, Time described how we approached bin Laden's hideout and how we infiltrated it and killed him. The story of how America killed its most wanted war criminal and it was able to do it in a thousand words? Maybe our attention spans are short.

Twitter Presentation

A Public View of Sudan

Sudan is located in eastern Africa. The capital is Khartoum. Only one out of the six interviewees knew this. 

American media hardly covers the events in Sudan. This is part of the reason some of the interviewees had difficulties answering many of the questions about the country. Some of the information Americans knew about was the fact that the country had faced civil war and political unrest over the past century. However, none knew about the south's plans to secede from the north or about events like cattle robbing.

Responses about why Americans don't know more about Sudan usually cited the fact that Americans are for the most part uninterested in the ongoings of other parts of the world.

Sudan's Government

 Some brief background:
Sudan is a country that has experienced several decades of political unrest. It first gained its independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956. Following that the country faced 17 years of civil war, the end of which did anything but bring peace to this eastern-African nation.

South Sudan is about to secede and become its own nation. Some are anticipating another war as a result of the mainly Christian south's independence from the mainly Islamic north.

The Sudanese Family

American article:

Sex offenders banned from O.C. beaches and parks

Sudanese article:

Girl kills herself after being forced to marry in Lakes state

What's American? What Isn't?

The three pictures depicting American scenes show what is important to Americans and how our culture has affected those around the world. Disney and the American entertainment industry has found itself penetrating the economies of countries across the globe.

More than 14 million people visit California's Disneyland every year. Even more visit Orlando's Disney World every year.