I believe that the underlying point is that everything is unfair, therefore stupidity by association is justified.
No, the underlying point is that if life was 'fair' then that would mean that everyone had access to the same amount of stuff as everyone else, which would mean that everyone would be on dialup, or possibly have no internet connection at all, and finding food would be rather difficult indeed.
The fact that life is unfair is the entire reason why you are currently on this board able to post this, it's also the entire reason Homo Sapians exist as a species, since if life was fair then life would have never gotten past the basic algae stage.
Calling Bullshit now.
Statistics suck.
1) You find me an unbiased statistical survey, and I'll find proof that we're in the matrix.
2) Have you done statisic's work on this board? Cuz I will bet you the entire value of my estate that the makeup of American Bayers is a hell and a half lot different than anywhere else (actually, you can replace Bayers with anything you want, see 3)
3) America is a big place. Melting pot, sure, but there is so much differentiation between this place that your sterotype is useless. I've been chatting with random people on Mystery Google, and I've gotten people from California, Texas, and the East Coast. They all had very different opinions on stuff. Sterotyping America is like generalizing a pack of paint. If you combine them all, and then divide, you'll ALWAYS get brown. There may be one or two shades of brown, how do you extend that to everything else?
4) You fail to realize that people talk about things they are knowledgeable about. The "let's grab those three people off the street" survey is going to hit up people who would NEVER presume that they could talk knowledgeably about other countries.
5) The entire issue is really pointless. G-Flex made a comment that applies differently from his piece of America (BTW, smoking regulation is a city or state issue, so even talking about America fails) and Neruz got annoyed at it. End.
When did i say anything about unbiased statistical survey? All i said was that about 2 years ago i started tracking some numbers for ~3 months and asked the various Americans i know (some immigrants, some online, some here, some there) a few questions, as well as going back with them to the first time i met them and remembering what it was like, the questions they asked, the mistakes they made etc.
What i found was a statistically significant swing towards my American friends being more ignorant of the world outside of America than my European and Asian friends.
Is this an unbiased survey? I never said it was. Did i do a statistics work on this board? No, i wasn't here 2 years ago, i did do it on a couple of other boards though as i was interested in my peers rather than the average American.
The rest of your post appears to be completely irrelevant and probably copied and pasted from your standard response to people claiming 'survey' results or something.
I claimed nothing of the sort. I merely stated that
my personal experience as led me to conclude that Americans tend to forget that the rest of the world exists more often than people of other nationalities.
That's
it, that's the long and the short of it. There's no secret message or underlying political motivation or special shiny racist overtones, it's just a statement made from my own personal experience, based on my own personal experience, by me, the person who experienced the experiences.
Strife and G-Flex need to get off their high horses and actually read my posts and respond to what i wrote, rather than making my posts up in their head and then responding to the stuff they made up.
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