stardom. tonight you ll see her as you never seen her before. that s very good. do you know how many times i dreampt of having a taco and beer with you? this is piers morgan tonight. let s start with the obvious question, how do you actually pronounce your name? charlize theron. it s what i thought would be easiest for people. what is the african way of pronouncing it? charlize theron. i much prefer that. say it again. charlize theron. you were raised south african and came to l.a. with a broad accent. you quite consciously went and taught yourself how to speak in an american accent, right? yeah, i mean, look, i was pushed into a corner. i started going out on auditions. the feedback is she s great but can she do it in an american accent? my english was poor. i make a lot of grammar mistakes. my mother lives two minutes away. she speak african to her? yeah. speak african to me. well, i mean [ speaking foreign language ] wow, i didn t know you f
china, south korea is extremely different, and if you spend some time in those schools and time in those cultures, what you find is that those cultures really revere, recognize, and reward ind lek actual and academic achievement and in america it s not clear what we reward, but certainly not academic achieveme achievement. often it s athletic achievement, leisure activities, extracurriculars, all of which have their place, but in the other countries around the world that are beating us, that place is not number one. this is from your movie 2 million minutes, an american student talking about her value system. let s watch. although i might not score perfect on the s.a.t.s in math and science, i do think that i was brought up to be more rounded in a sense of socially, not taking anything away from the kids in china and india because they do work hard.
to california, while the japanese may think they have the market corners on robots, clearly they have not met this, the ancestor of rosie jetson. uc berkeley created a robot that can fold laundry. until you get too excited about the end of household chores, this video was sped up by a factor of 50. it takes this robot 25 minutes to fold a single towel. which is a slight improvement over the robot s previous achieveme achievement, which was two days to round up all the unmatched socks. in the wake of the arrest of one man for threatening the life of senator murray you might think tea partiers might be more circumspect with their speech for the week. you d be wrong. one tells supporters to make their incumbent, quote, scared to come out of his house. and virginia s selective memory on the civil war and sudden correction today. ok, maybe it was my fault.
that, why can t we? maybe the u.s. isn t so bad in all of this if what they ve done is giving the iraqi people a chance for real democracy. so i think both in terms of its impact on the way we will be looked at, more important how they see themselves and how they re looked at as a region, it will be a major achieveme achievement. it isn t going to be because of the naysayers of which newsweek was one, but basically because there were enough people who said from the beginning we are going to make it work and they made it work. neil: now, there are always going to be those, including the vice president, by the way, taking credit these days, the present vice president joe biden. but this is the same vice president who as senator joe biden warned that at best we could look forward to an iraq that divides itself in three countries.