The American world view

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Apr 25, 2002
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The American world view
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1582943,00.html


64 per cent of people questioned for a recent poll said they were open to the idea of teaching creationism in addition to evolution in schools, while 38 per cent favoured replacing evolution with creationism.

40 per cent of Americans believe God will eventually intervene in human affairs and bring about an end to life on Earth, according to a survey carried out in 2002. Of those believers, almost half thought this would occur in their lifetime with a return of Jesus from heaven.

1 adult American in five believes that the Sun revolves around Earth, according to one study carried out last summer.

80 per cent of Americans surveyed by the CNN TV news network believe that their government is hiding evidence of the existence of space aliens.

70 per cent believe it likely that Saddam Hussein was involved personally in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.


Obviously, little intelligence went into the design of the average american :rolleyes:
 

Talus

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May 14, 2002
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ill have to quote homer simpson again on this one
"You can use statistics to prove ANYTHING 99% of all people know that"- Homer Simpson
 

Talus

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^^very country is full of ignorance US just set itself up for a bad name. We are in the spot light right now so of course there is going to be hella haters...
 
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It's not a new stereotype... Americans have NEVER been recognized as worldly people, they are homely and naive about foreign affairs... It makes sense though, a population that for the majority has not seen the world outside of America would of course be extremely ethnocentric and uneducated/not concerned about foreign affairs. Americans are very isolated from the rest of the world, much more so than they think.
 

Hutch

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Every time I start to feel the tiniest bit of optimism for Amerika, something like this slaps my face and puts me check. Damn Amerikans are dumb!

I’m sure a lot of Europeans got a good laugh after reading that poll.
and Australians....