Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxq!ken From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Americans Message-ID: <1129@ihuxq.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Aug-84 17:20:27 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxq.1129 Posted: Fri Aug 10 17:20:27 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Aug-84 01:10:02 EDT References: <371@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 28 -- >> 5. Americans believe that they live in the best country in the world; >> the most free, the most democratic, the fairest. >> 6. Americans know less about other countries than any other people. >> (I know that this is a bit strange, in view of (5), that is, how >> can someone believe their country to be the best, without knowing >> about other countries? see (7).) >> 7. Americans are very anti-intellectual; Americans read less than >> anyone else. (Well, that explains (6): (5) is based on faith and >> propaganda, not knowledge.) >> David London It's all true. Some survey during the past year found that 85% of the respondents did not know which side the US was supporting in Nicaragua. Americans are woefully ignorant of geography, too, including their own. I believe it was historian Richard Hofstadter who wrote, "America is the only country that was conceived in perfection and has been getting better ever since." -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 10 Aug 84 [23 Thermidor An CXCII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7261 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!ihuxq!ken *** ***