Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxi!russ From: russ@ihuxi.UUCP (Russell Spence) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Americans Message-ID: <1014@ihuxi.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Aug-84 10:56:19 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxi.1014 Posted: Fri Aug 10 10:56:19 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Aug-84 00:30:28 EDT References: <371@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 35 > 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.) > > For the record, I have lived in Canada, Europe and the U.S. I have travelled > extensively throughout Europe, Canada, the States and Mexico. Thanks for the info. I didn't know that we read less than anyone else (I guess this means that I am guilty of #6). I consider this a fault. Maybe this is the fault of the education system. I have always like to read and have never understood people who never read at all. I guess that TV may have something to do with it too. (I NEVER watch network TV (except the olympics)) People seem to watch alot of TV and television usually doesn't present much that leads to the type of intellectual activity that is necessary to read a good book. I have about 6 books on a shelf at home I have been meaning to read. With the olympic feaver on me I feel like I ought to go out and read them just so the US can read more books than any country in the world! (I guess this means that I am guilty of #5 too :-) "A book a week helps your mental physique!" -- Russell Spence ihnp4!ihuxi!russ AT&T Technologies Naperville, IL