Many Chinese are brainwashed, so are many Americans! In China people have limited access to free media. However most Chinese, esp. the young generation, are always skeptical on the state media and usually welcome the other side of the story from the West. On the other hand American people generally trust their media and do not have the desire to look for the other side of the story. And sadly the brainwash happens when all the mainstream media are biased on some foreign issues for half a century. Nobody cares to mention that the Chinese government has lifted 300 million people, including Tibetan Chinese, out of poverty in the past 30 years, and nobody cares to ask how much human rights Tibetan Chinese had when Dalai Lama was in power, no one even reports his current proposal on the racial segregation policy in the "greater Tibet" and the lack of freedom of religion in his exile government. When the rioters in Lhasa killed innocent Han and Hui Chinese, and when three Han Chinese girls and one Tibetan Chinese girls were burned to death in the fire set by the rioters, and when pro-Tibet Americans acknowledged on NPR that normal Han Chinese were targets of violence from the militant Tibetans but that “was a reasonable and understandable reaction to the Chinese government's policies, I can not help but to fear the damage of the biased media in the past half century in both US and China.