{"id":4579,"date":"2004-10-27T14:44:48","date_gmt":"2004-10-27T14:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4579"},"modified":"2004-10-27T14:44:48","modified_gmt":"2004-10-27T14:44:48","slug":"uzbek-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4579","title":{"rendered":"Uzbek TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A news crew from Uzbekistan interviewed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\">CIRCLE <\/a>staff earlier today. They were nothing like Balat from the &#8220;Ali G. Show.&#8221; For one thing, they only spoke Russian and had to use an interpreter. For another, they asked extremely serious and sober questions, like &#8220;What precentage of eligible voters are under 30?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All interviews are one-sided affairs; and when everything has to be translated, you can&#8217;t make small talk or ask irrelevant questions. As I watched, I wondered: What is it like being in a car with four Uzbeks and a State Department handler, driving around suburban DC for an interview with people at some &#8220;Center for Information &#8230;&#8221;? Why do Uzbeks care about youth turnout in the US election? When we say that kids study &#8220;civic education&#8221; in American high schools, what scenes pop into their heads? What do they imagine goes on in a place like the University of Maryland? What are they going to say in Russian voiceover as they show my colleagues talking? Are they even paying attention?<\/p>\n<p>In short, I found the news crew more interesting&#8211;but probably more mysterious&#8211;than they found us and our issue of American youth civic engagement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A news crew from Uzbekistan interviewed the CIRCLE staff earlier today. They were nothing like Balat from the &#8220;Ali G. Show.&#8221; For one thing, they only spoke Russian and had to use an interpreter. For another, they asked extremely serious and sober questions, like &#8220;What precentage of eligible voters are under 30?&#8221; All interviews are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}