I found this column by Gary Younge about Sesame Street in other countries pretty interesting. I mean, yeah, Gary Younge is a complete drooling idiot liberal, but once you cut through his dimwitted ideology in this article, there are some interesting facts to learn. Still, I want to give you fair warning and not downplay the total crap you have to drudge through to get to the interesting stuff; I mean, the guy keeps using the word “progressive” over and over, and the least of his mental offensives. Oh, and there’s that part about Palestinian children having trouble liking Israelis because of the tanks outside; what about the Israeli children, Gary, you ass, who actually are the targets of Palestinians? Know what, come to think of it, don’t read the article; it ain’t worth the trouble.
BTW, he mentions the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention which states that no two countries with McDonalds in them has ever gone to war. Anyone know if that is true?
The McDonalds analogy has been extensively debunked, by no less a light than Prof. Arinan Kashnoogi at the University of Bombay.
There were at least a hundred documented McDonald families living in the United States at the time of the American Revolution — and I think we can take as given that there were still a few McDonalds living in Scotland, despite the genocidal efforts of the Clan Campbell… [six pages of atrocities deleted for reasons of space]
Anyway there were McDonalds in both Britain and America during the Revolution, so they’ve gone to war at least once.
So I don’t think there’s a worldwide conspiracy of Bilderberger-like shadowy McDonalds controlling who delcares war and who doesn’t. I read that in the New York Times, so it must be true.
I’m pretty sure that Yugoslavia had McDonalds, and I seem to recall that there was at least one earlier instance where countries that both had McDonalds went to war… But then again, I’m a damn hippy.
Go away you stupid hippy.
But it probably is just a rumor. Why can’t McDonaldses just get along?
I wonder whether there were any Golden Arches in Argentina during the Falklands war. That would certainly disprove the theory.
Yugoslavia was the first to disprove this “theory.” Argentina didn’t have any McDonalds before the end of the Falklands war.
I think this is because, until the 1990’s, McDonalds pretty much stayed out of littledictatorships, and Democracies haven’t go to war with each other in the past 50 years. . . but couldn’t we please make an exception for France?