Well of course you are entitled to your opinion GUEST. As Art Theime has said there seems to be a difference between attitudes and opinions about 'world music' between the UK and USA. I will continue to post about my own knowledge and opinion, not what I assume.

You say that the public are 'much more knowledgeable and educated consumers of music', well that's not my experience in the UK. I also know next to nothing about New Age music, but I don't immediately assume it's something to identify music that old people like me won't like.

If you read some of the earier posts in ths thread you'll find out a bit more about what world music actually means in the UK. Just because our imperialist polititians seem to have similar values doesn't mean that we're in the same country.

And your crack about 'easy to attack anonymous posters' - well we both know how to solve that, don't we? Come out from u8nder the bridge.