"What's that?" you may ask. It's simple - Yahoo has a news article about how the Chinese news service used footage that appears to have been stolen from the movie "Top Gun" in order to show supposed air force drills. Big deal - give it to the Copyright lawyers to deal with, right?
Well... just handing it over to the copyright lawyers won't make it "big news." You have to make a big deal about it, first. And so, a big deal has been made. A news service/propaganda machine has spouted it's infringing story, and we've made a big deal about it.
What bugs me the most isn't that they've taken a well-known movie and stolen a few seconds of footage. What bugs me is the way we've responded in open forums; responses that lack entirely in any level of intellect, but show only hatred, and blatant racism. I hope what you read in the comments section below the article makes you feel as disgusted as I feel... How can we make, or keep, friends in and of other nationalities/nations if we cannot stop saying such hurtful and hateful things? Knowing that it's our own citizens saying it just make me want to leave the country out of out and out embarrassment.
Here's the link to the page we're talking about: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thecutline/20110131/ts_yblog_thecutline/chinese-air-force-drill-looks-awfully-similar-to-top-gun?mwp_success=NONJS_POST_SUCCESS#mwpphu-container
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