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Name: Anonymous 2006-04-03 10:36

The United States is 49th in the world in literacy (the New York Times, Dec. 12, 2004).
The United States ranked 28th out of 40 countries in mathematical literacy (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004).
Twenty percent of Americans think the sun orbits the earth. Seventeen percent believe the earth revolves around the sun once a day (The Week, Jan. 7, 2005).

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-03 11:18 (sage)

So? Who cares?

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-03 11:29

>>2

YOU should. If you are American that is.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-03 11:30

>>1

Think of something new instead of this copy pasta, retard.  As for your first point, the literacy rate is in the upper 90's and as for your the second point, obviously the vast majority think the opposite.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-03 11:36

>>4
The literacy is 97 or 98 percent, that means every 20th person is a complete retard. Several millions of billions of people, that is.

63% is not a "vast majority."

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-03 11:40

You're forgetting the millions of Mexicans drag down the literacy rate.

Sun: 100 % - 20% = 80%
Earth: 100% - 17 % = 83%

Do you know math, retard?

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-03 11:52

>>6
>You're forgetting the millions of Mexicans drag down the literacy rate.

Actually they're the one that bring it up. Without them USA would be WAAAAYYY down.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-03 12:01 (sage)

>>3
I'm not American, but even if I was why should I care how literate  my fellow countrymen or how good they are in science? It's their problem and it won't affect my live in any way.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-03 12:02

>>5
"The literacy is 97 or 98 percent, that means every 20th person is a complete retard. Several millions of billions of people, that is."

Your math skills suck.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-03 12:26

>>6,9
>:O

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-03 12:45

>>10
Must be Americans lol

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-03 15:31

>>6,9
>:O

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-03 17:09

>>7
No.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-04 6:49

And yet the US is hands down the country with the highest quantity and quality research institutions. It just shows that they're betting their money on the people that actually matter. And it's paying off too.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-04 11:16

I'm an American-bashing European, I laugh at your McDonalds culture, your soccer moms, and your pious imbecile, yet I can't help but agree with >>14.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-04 12:20

>>14

And guess where all those people come from? Cerainly not from USA lol.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-04 12:32

>>16
Oooh, that explains it all. For a moment I thought the USA could be doing something right.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-04 12:51

>>16
>>17
Same person.

Anyway, if their respective countries offered what the USA offered then maybe they would've have to leave.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-04 13:21

>>16
Guess where all Americans came from? Certainly not from USA.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-04 13:57

>>19

Europeans created modern Americans. Without Europe the native Americans would still be living in caves, eating shit and raping their siblings. Oh wait, they still do that.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-04 15:42

bears live in caves.
bears != native americans.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-04 16:04

>>21

And your point is? You can construct anything like that.
An eagle flies, a parrot flies.
Eagle != parrot

A trivial comment meant to distract from the truth.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-04 17:46

>>20
Europeans created modern Americans. Without the Americans Europe would probably have retained their position as the world's super power. Therefore Europe screwed itself.

That was probably one of the bigger fuck-ups in human history.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-04 18:11

OTTAWA NATION!

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-04 18:38

>>23
Good fuck up, America is better world power than those god damn Germans or Brits.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-05 3:38

>>25
Hitler > Bush

>>27 loves Godwin.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-05 4:26

who the fuck is Godwin

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-05 11:59

>>23
Lol

>>26
At least he had class

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-06 12:00

>>22
I believe the point he was trying to make was that Native Americans do not live in caves

>>23
Europe is more than one country.
If the Americas never existed, WW1 or 2 would have been won by the Germans.
My my... maybe I'll write a novel about that

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-06 23:38

>>29
"Europe is more than one country."
Lie was told.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-07 1:38

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Name: Anonymous 2006-04-07 3:07

>>14
China is catching up actually on that level. They are pumping money into it.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-07 3:47

>>29

If Europe never existed the America you are talking about wouldn't exist. We're higher up the food chain. Sucks to be Americans.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-07 3:55

>>33
And if Africa never existed then humanity as we know it would not have evolved.
By your definition, Africa is higher up in the 'food chain' than everyone else. Sucks to be not-Africa.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-07 5:09

>>34

Way to miss the point. My point was that Americans can't use "Zomg if America never existed then Germans would have won WWI and WWII" argument. Sure if Africans wanted to use that fact against us that would be fine, but it doesn't affect the fact that Europe is higher in the food chain than Americans.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-07 6:41

>>35
incorrect
'the food chain' as you call it, is not dictated by who comes first. If it were, then bugs would be at a much higher level. If ANYTHING, the foodchain is dictated by who comes LAST, as animals evolve to adapt and get better.

You fail biology AND sociology.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-07 6:44

>>36

I am not talking about food chain in that respect. Since USA wants to argue that without them Germany would have taken over Europe, they fail to recognise that without Europe there would be no America in the first place. That's what I mean by being higher in the food chain. Perhaps that was a bad choice of words but you know what I mean.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-07 7:30

>>29
Counterfactuals are for retards. If history was changed enough so that America didn't exist, who knows what else would have changed? Would Germany even unify? Who knows.

>>32
I wouldn't say "catching up." Anyone who has a chance to gtfo of that country and go "west" (read America, Europe, even New Zealand for godsakes) would gladly give a testicle to do it. China is growing stronger on a whole, but academically it's still far behind. More importantly, they have to stop worshipping white people. Really. It's getting ridiculous.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-07 7:36

>>38

Don't diss china. They are the leaders in alternative medicine.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-08 3:45

>>1

Funny thing is...I was never polled in this study.  It's called picking your audience to slant your figures.  It's an old tactic.
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