Soldiering forward, culturally aware

News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:39 AM EDT

Article Source: Washington Times

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Cultural-awareness training is especially important in areas where troops "are not necessarily fighting but doing stabilization up close with the local population," says Lt. Col. Tommy Scott of the Marines' Center for Advanced Operational Cultural Learning at Quantico, Va. "Our task is to make sure Marines are trained before being deployed on regional language and cultural knowledge of the area - not to create a foreign-affairs office."

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Thanks to the worldwide spread of U.S. popular culture, U.S. troops abroad may find that our reputation precedes us — in rather distorted ways. "Iraqis learn about America from television, if you start to think about it," Ms. Rush says. "Imagine if people whose only exposure to us is 'Beverly Hills 90210' or 'Baywatch,' not to mention the cop shows. Either we [Americans on TV] are killing each other in assorted ways or spending millions and living in mansions."

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Thanks to the worldwide spread of U.S. popular culture, U.S. troops abroad may find that our reputation precedes us — in rather distorted ways. "Iraqis learn about America from television, if you start to think about it," Ms. Rush says. "Imagine if people whose only exposure to us is 'Beverly Hills 90210' or 'Baywatch,' not to mention the cop shows. Either we [Americans on TV] are killing each other in assorted ways or spending millions and living in mansions."

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