This kinda bugs me.  I found via B.L.'s blog this headline—Ex CNN Reporter Rebecca MacKinnon: English Language Blogs Have Narrow World View—and thought, yeah that's kinda true.  The problem is that it lumps all English language blogs together.  What about Canadians, Aussies, Kiwis, and Brits?  Not to mention Scots, Irish, and assorted other English speaking bloggers.

 

I was born in the States.  Lived there for almost 30 years before I moved to Canada.  I was schooled in the American school system all the way through my Masters degree.  I think I was one of the few people to get an A on my intro Geology class (Geo 101, Rocks for Jocks—I later minored in Geology...thanks Dr. Bob!) geography test.  I know that Americans have a terribly narrow view of the world.  Jeez the questions I'm asked about Canada by my own family have born this out (sorry guys).   Americans, though, are not the only people blogging in English.  Canadians are part of the Commonwealth (God Save the Queen, Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada).  Thirty percent of Canadians weren't born here (me and my daughter included).  So even from the Canadian perspective we do look at the rest of the world differently.  Canadians, and I'm always impressed by Canadian kids I meet, are very well informed and in touch with the rest of the world.  They can find Canada, their province and all the U.S. States on a map.  Same can't be said for American kids.

So for all English-speaking bloggers I'm standing up and saying, Hey!  Some of us keep track of the rest of the world!  Heck some of us even write for European clients and were hired because we've got the chops to speak to a global audience, even though we don't live in Europe.

 

Thus ends my standing up for the rest of the world rant.  We now return you to your regularly scheduled blogging.

 

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