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Originally Posted by dr. Gonzo
I can pretty much understand that, but anyway who's more ignorant in this case? I am sure world is not as Europe-centered for the average European than it's US-centered for the average American. It's the awareness about other countries, cultures, religions, political systems that makes you more capable of embracing different things and getting a broader perspective of everything which is going on.
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I agree with you. But as i was saying "why" ... the average American isn't exposed to a daily bombardment of news, movies, entertainment about Europe. the implication is that Americans are somehow ignorant (as it relates to intelligence) than others. Canadians say this same thing... yet the simple fact is that a significant portion of their news etc all is from the US. they talk about US states as if they're part of Canada and so on. We don't get bombarded by news about a Canadian Octomom.. but Canada makes the same pathetic crap that's headline news in the US, headline news in Canada.... so again, there is a massive imbalance of exposure to others. I don't think that absorbing information through news like that i cited makes one less ignorant of others.... in fact, i think Europeans show a massive amount of ignorance in their stereotypes of Americans. American is mostly immigrants anyway and Europeans have this idea that its a nation of cowboys and hillbillies.... not a nation of europeans, chinese, indians, mexicans, pakistanis etc.
Americans came to America to escape where they were coming from.