Originally posted by FMFYou are one epithetical dude, you.
On my travels I have found (for instance) Cubans and Nicaraguans to be far better informed about, say, U.S. foreign policy, than Americans themselves. More generally speaking, I have long felt that Americans' tendency towards self-absorption and their assumption that they are exceptional and morally superior interferes with their ability to separate myth from re ...[text shortened]... formed as America. And, indeed, I've met quite a lot of well-informed Americans who concur.
Just one comment -- Russians were much less well-informed than Americans at one time. They had been told since birth, like all Americans are, that their country was "the greatest". Only they found out eventually that they had been lied to and frankly became very depressed on finding out.
I wouldn't say most Americans feel exceptional or morally superior at all (self-absorbed, yes). What they feel is fortunate -- basically just glad as heck that they don't have to live over where you all are. Justifiable or not, that's how they feel.
Originally posted by spruce112358and i'm sure glad i don't have to live over where you all are. i have at one point (lived in the us), and i never will again. i'll take our higher standards of living any day.
You are one epithetical dude, you.
Just one comment -- Russians were much less well-informed than Americans at one time. They had been told since birth, like all Americans are, that their country was "the greatest". Only they found out eventually that they had been lied to and frankly became very depressed on finding out.
I wouldn't say most Ameri ...[text shortened]... t they don't have to live over where you all are. Justifiable or not, that's how they feel.
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Originally posted by mbakuninDo you suppose most of those functional illiterates have that problem because they barely speak english?
less well informed? i'd say a nation with 21-23% functional illiterates, maybe even including their leader, would tend to be less well informed.
Originally posted by Sam The Shamnope. actually, this study, commisioned by the government, was "statistically balanced for age, gender, ethnicity, education level, and location (urban, suburban, or rural)"
Do you suppose most of those functional illiterates have that problem because they barely speak english?
Originally posted by mbakuninSo one in five "average" Americans can't read, I wonder where they are hiding them?
nope. actually, this study, commisioned by the government, was "statistically balanced for age, gender, ethnicity, education level, and location (urban, suburban, or rural)"
Originally posted by Sam The Shamthe operative word is 'functional'. in other words they can't read above a 4th grade level.
So one in five "average" Americans can't read, I wonder where they are hiding them?
"21% to 23% of adult Americans were not "able to locate information in text", could not "make low-level inferences using printed materials", and were unable to "integrate easily identifiable pieces of information."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States
Originally posted by mbakuninAmerica does have a lot of people like that. They cannot learn above a certain level in school.
the operative word is 'functional'. in other words they can't read above a 4th grade level.
"21% to 23% of adult Americans were not "able to locate information in text", could not "make low-level inferences using printed materials", and were unable to "integrate easily identifiable pieces of information."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States
Wink wink, nod nod, say no more.
Originally posted by mbakuninYou sprelled Frunktinel wrong. Dumb Dork!
the operative word is 'functional'. in other words they can't read above a 4th grade level.
"21% to 23% of adult Americans were not "able to locate information in text", could not "make low-level inferences using printed materials", and were unable to "integrate easily identifiable pieces of information."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States
GRANNY.
Originally posted by FMFI don't agree with you much, but I agree with this post.
An upside down flag? Don't know really. Never given it much thought. Presumably it would be a political gesture. Any suggestion that it was an expression of hatred for [b]a group of people would be plain daft, of course. Like those who criticize Israel being immediately branded as [/i]anti-semetic.[/i] That, and braying [i]You hate Americans! You hate ...[text shortened]... arze Ritter, not me. He likes to list them. And he's not in the least bit ashamed of doing so.[/b]
Originally posted by pawnhandlerThe people who I know are idiots.
This video has been posted and debated for months ... making you less informed I guess. But really, we can go to your neighborhood and videotape a bunch of people and then only show the stupid ones and leave out the educated ones. Then we can say that people where you live are ignorant.
Everyone is a idiot compared to me.