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The World According To Americans
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Very true!
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| written by: Philip at 2008-04-13 18:39:24 | reply to this
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| written by: try at 2008-07-28 16:12:11 | show this comment
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Mouse heads?
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| written by: antifolkhero at 2008-04-13 18:43:58 | reply to this
Uuuhh...I believe that should be "Mooseheads" rather than "Mouseheads"...
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| written by: patito at 2008-04-13 18:44:36 | reply to this
Righto patito. Are you sure you are Texan and not a Canuck?
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| written by: connie at 2009-01-03 04:02:35 | reply to this
You forgot to mention the elephants and the turtles holding it all up! How can you forget something so important?
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| written by: bob1 at 2008-04-13 19:00:04 | reply to this
You DO have a sense of humour, Bob1! I am astounded!
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| written by: poppy at 2009-01-03 00:04:09 | reply to this
Priceless. Trendy anti-American sentiment with a spelling mistake a 10 year old wouldn't make.
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| written by: Motleyfool at 2008-04-13 21:07:16 | reply to this
I think they forgot the igloos and reindeer in Canda
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| written by: Anti-Islam at 2008-04-13 22:20:27 | reply to this
It is sad that the worlds opinion of us has declined so much. Thanks a lot George W. Your days are numbered.
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| written by: Cluciano at 2008-04-13 22:26:10 | reply to this
You can't fully blame Bush. After all, he WAS elected once and a half. Blame all the people who voted for him and the ones who didn't vote. There's a reason why stupid people can become presidents.
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| written by: bob1 at 2008-04-13 22:45:40 | reply to this
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence,a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
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| written by: gater at 2008-04-14 00:00:54 | reply to this
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| written by: yo mama at 2008-04-13 23:03:06 | show this comment
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I'm English, so I'm quite enjoying seeing you taking the piss out of yourselves (your media is shouting "America Sucks' louder than the rest of the world at the moment). You're the masters of stereotypes and now you're getting some pretty harsh ones of your own. You're all perceived as a bunch of fat brain-dead trigger-happy isolationists. I'm saying this in a posh stuttery accent while painfully trying to sip on my cup of tea without my bad teeth and oversized jaw getting in the way. Guffaw! Rather! etc...
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| written by: TCS at 2008-04-14 00:19:22 | reply to this
If only we WERE isolationists, the rest of the world wouldn't also be taking the piss out of us for our folie ˆ deux-dyhead...
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| written by: Just Sayin at 2008-04-14 00:31:46 | reply to this
LOL TCS, "guffaw. rather!" LOL
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| written by: _99999 at 2008-08-04 16:07:37 | reply to this
I say gov, a bit harsh on the Yanks what!
Reaaly, Americans are definitely not isolationists...not since at least WW II. Now go have another spot of tea and ponder the errors of you ways, yes indeed ;-) ;-)
Reaaly, Americans are definitely not isolationists...not since at least WW II. Now go have another spot of tea and ponder the errors of you ways, yes indeed ;-) ;-)
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| written by: connie at 2009-01-02 22:17:44 | reply to this
As a resident of the blue bit in the bottom right corner I can laugh at this knowing that I am far enough away from the loonies to feel relatively safe. Having spoken to quite a few Americans (of the US species) and hearing that Australia is often expected to be somewhere in Europe, I would not be surprised if this map was a relatively accurate account of the geographic knowledge of the average US citizen.
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| written by: GruMbleBuM at 2008-04-14 01:12:25 | reply to this
If America is so bad, why are more people trying to come here than leaving here to go someplace else?
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| written by: jdgjtr at 2008-04-14 01:32:29 | reply to this
Nobody's saying the US is bad, just that americans are stupid.
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| written by: bob1 at 2008-04-14 01:35:24 | reply to this
Are they really stupid or are they ignorant? There is a difference. We are all the product of our own 'edumecation' system. If ignorance really is bliss, then this may account for the apparent happiness of most US citizens!!
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| written by: GruMbleBuM at 2008-04-14 03:16:32 | reply to this
How about both? lol... seriously though, there should be more focus on getting children to WANT to learn and think. The way the world works now, there is very little incentive to do so. The desire to learn and enjoy new experiences is far too underrated, that's why we end up with half the people in the US not accepting evolution.
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| written by: bob1 at 2008-04-14 03:28:56 | reply to this
Easy pickin's, that's why.
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| written by: smalley at 2008-04-14 01:43:38 | reply to this
Thing is, there are a tad over three hundred million people in the US..hard to generalize about that many folks, and especially since we probably have the highest level of population heterogeneity of any country on earth..there really isn't any such thing as an 'average' American...one more thing..Canadians and Mexicans are also Americans..so are folks from Nicaragua and Guatemala, Columbia and Venezuela, Chile and Argentina, Brazil and Peru..etc etc..
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| written by: patito at 2008-04-14 02:03:58 | reply to this
"especially since we probably have the highest level of population heterogeneity of any country on earth".... on what basis are you making that statement? I sure hear that a lot from americans, but honestly I've never heard anyone give me good reasons for believing that. I guess if you take the entire country as a whole, but the US is the 3rd or 4th biggest country in the world, so you would EXPECT it to be very heterogeneous if you look at the country as a whole. I think the vast majority of the US is fairly homogeneous compared to other areas of the world of a similar size. Anyway, I completely agree with the rest of your post, and "american's" appropriation of the term "america" and "american" used to be one of my pet peeves.
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| written by: bob1 at 2008-04-14 02:16:54 | reply to this
PS. What exactly do you mean by "heterogeneous" anyway? Do you mean differences in skin color, ethnicity, nationality, belief systems, education, class, language, culture, all of them, or what?
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| written by: bob1 at 2008-04-14 02:20:21 | reply to this
I AM NOT AN AMERICAN!! If this map WAS made by an American it would have been blank above the 49th parallel ( That's the long strait line across the top of your country ) I've traveled thoughout the States and have met American collage students living 50 miles from the border that had NO CLUE what is in Canada! The American school system teaches NOTHING about the rest of the world.
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| written by: Canuck at 2008-04-14 03:21:11 | reply to this
but at least they teach us how to spell 'college'
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| written by: traveladdict at 2008-08-15 01:57:07 | reply to this
hi bob1,I like your style, but I do have to say George wasn't elected the first time.great information for Greg Palast.(LONG time ago LITTLE TO LATE ),but he did a documentary full of info.GOOGLE HIM.
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| written by: lilly at 2008-04-14 02:28:06 | reply to this
I know, that's why I said "once and a half" :P
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| written by: bob1 at 2008-04-14 02:51:21 | reply to this
I love these discussions about Bush. He was constitutionally elected TWICE. If we would learn a bit about our own law we would know that popular vote does not elect a president. The Electoral Collage twice gave victory to George W Bush like it or not. Get over it and let's fix the educational system so that we are more aware of our world.
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| written by: Chris at 2008-08-30 18:30:17 | reply to this
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| written by: lilly at 2008-04-14 02:55:20 | show this comment
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| written by: patito at 2008-04-14 03:26:47 | show this comment
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You didn't really address my points. You can list all of the subgroups that exist in the United states, but the united states is a HUGE country which spans the whole width of a continent, an island in the middle of the pacific, and a random piece of land completely separate from the main country. You would EXPECT a huge variety of people to live in such a big place, even if that place has a very low heterogeneity. Without knowing the relative densities of any of those given groups, as well as their distribution, (not to mention the densities/distributions in other countries) any statement comparing the heterogeneity between any two countries is utterly meaningless. I for one have not met ANY of half the kinds of people you mentioned.... and I think there are PLENTY of countries with similarly rich social and cultural textures. Many African and South American countries have an incredible amount of diversity, from native tribes to tourism to immigrants. And I hear that many European countries have similar diversity. ...... But anyway, this originally started out as a discussion of the average awareness among Americans of worldly affairs compared to that of people from other countries. None of the variables you mentioned (religion, nationality, etc) have much influence on this, and I'm sure the average individual from any of those groups is very ignorant about the beliefs and practices of all the other groups.
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| written by: bob1 at 2008-04-14 03:42:21 | reply to this
Actually patito, Native Americans came, most probably, from Mongolia. They entered North America via the Bering Strait, which was land once upon a time. They then worked their way down over thousands of years to the end of South America. Inuits (the group that stayed north) have strong mongolian features.
As to your last paragraph, the answer is CANADA ;-)
As to your last paragraph, the answer is CANADA ;-)
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| written by: connie at 2009-01-03 04:10:03 | reply to this
Like Connie said, the answer to your last sentence is Canada. Canada also fosters its multiculturalism, meaning you can be Canadian AND keep your original identity. Can YOUR policemen wear their religious headdress?
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| written by: t-o at 2009-01-04 10:46:50 | reply to this
So, where do you live, Bob 1 ? Have been reading your posts for a while...usually fairly well thought out, I must say..had figured you lived somewhere in the states...no?
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| written by: patito at 2008-04-14 04:53:45 | reply to this
I do, in NC. I was born in Mexico but then moved here when I was 10 or so. You?
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| written by: bob1 at 2008-04-14 05:01:20 | reply to this
Go Tarheels ! We lived in Chapel Hill when I was a kid..my Dad did a couple of years of graduate work there...that was back when Charlie Choo Choo Justice ( All The Way, Choo Choo !) was All American for UNC...Y, se partes de Mexico mas o menos bueno..especialemente las costa de el golfo..lugares como Tuxpan, Tecolutla, Vera Cruz..y Jalapa , un ciudad mervelosa, donde esta la universidad de el estado de Vera Cruz, y un museo anthropologio de la primera classe..Y tambien Puebla, donde fue me padre con un groupo de estudiantes in los veranos para muchos anos, a estudiar la sociologio de Mexico moderno, y la historia de las culturas classicos..pero, aunque mi gusto mucho Mexico, las gentes, la comida y musica, mi Espanol es muy primitivo, como el Englais de Tarzan.."Mi Tarzan..vivo en arbole..gusto plantinos.." Tengo que decir, es un placer a cambiar ideas y pensiamentes con un persona como usted, con un mente bien desarrollado..Adios y bueno suerte..
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| written by: patito at 2008-04-14 12:20:42 | reply to this
Mi espanol tambien es muy primitivo... es el de un nino de 10 anos que no a hablado/escrito mucho por anos (y aparte de un nino flojo que no le ponia muchas ganas a la esculea!). No conozco mucho de Mexico, nadamas a partes de Guanajuato, y partes de Queretaro. Tambien fui a Puerto Vallarta una vez, y a otros lados... pero nadamas una vez. Lo mas que extrano de Mexico es la comida, la comida de los EU ni se compara :( .... anyways (no se como se dice en espanol :P), igual mente. Nuestros debates son interesantes. Hasta luego.
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| written by: bob1 at 2008-04-14 15:44:27 | reply to this
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| written by: Hucklebuck at 2008-04-14 17:00:57 | show this comment
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AMEN!
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| written by: sparky at 2008-06-26 20:09:01 | reply to this
Love the (most of) the pics!
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| written by: sparky at 2008-06-26 20:09:44 | reply to this
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| written by: owl at 2008-06-28 17:19:52 | show this comment
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Most people have no control over were they are born or their nationality, all they can do is try to be open minded and not believie every their governemt presents as the truth about them selfs or others. Most people dont hate each other until some tells them to.
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| written by: novass at 2008-06-29 17:48:56 | reply to this
Ya know why I think most individual Americans are so "stupid"? It's because they all moved here from other countries. The "average American" isn't American at all. They've all moved here from some other country. Hence the "Give me your poor, your weak, your huddled masses". We are a haven made of the conglomerate of all the other countries refuse. (I live in America, was born here, and will probably die here as well.) I saw this pic at one point earlier and laughed because of what the world thought of us in their own ignorance. I saw this posted and all the comments that followed and thought I would post as well. At this point I'm tired of this sick joke. You know what would end up being funny though? If an American was actually the one who had made this. (Definition of Irony)
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| written by: redbeard at 2008-07-27 19:08:39 | reply to this
No doubt a United States resident did make this. I think we have become very aware of others thoughts about us without realizing that we help keep most of the world free. People come here because we accept idiots and those of high education equally. The United States of America is a great place. That said so are Canada, All the countries of South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. It should not be us versus them we are PEOPLE and that is what matters.
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| written by: Chris at 2008-08-30 18:37:24 | reply to this
that's possibly the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.
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| written by: tel_1022 at 2008-08-02 06:31:44 | reply to this
wow. you got all of these dead on! even the "don't go here" sign haha. it's weird i think about 80% of the things of the map. all i can think is brainwash
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| written by: joel at 2008-08-04 04:56:36 | reply to this
As a true conservative here in the US, I cannot wait for the day when we actually are 'isolationist'. I'm sick to death of American blood and treasure being spent on peoples that couldn't care less; likewise I'm sick of the carnage of all nationalities.
As an aside, I really don't know anyone (here in the US) that is this dimwitted; I've been to a great many of those nations and I'm an average guy. We do tend to look inwards rather than to the rest of the world; likely because we have so much here that most of us will never get the time to really enjoy all of our own nation, let alone the rest of the world. I can understand that many nations that are smaller than some of our states might take offense at this, but perhaps they'll get over it the next time they need a helping hand from their Uncle. Quite a lot of tall poppy syndrome going around, that much is certain.
As an aside, I really don't know anyone (here in the US) that is this dimwitted; I've been to a great many of those nations and I'm an average guy. We do tend to look inwards rather than to the rest of the world; likely because we have so much here that most of us will never get the time to really enjoy all of our own nation, let alone the rest of the world. I can understand that many nations that are smaller than some of our states might take offense at this, but perhaps they'll get over it the next time they need a helping hand from their Uncle. Quite a lot of tall poppy syndrome going around, that much is certain.
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| written by: Dr. Scientist at 2008-08-20 20:46:13 | reply to this
You need to travel outside your marvelous country and see for yourself instead of believing whatever CNN tells you. And FYI "American blood and treasure" is being invested in world domination, not donated in some grand messianic gesture.
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| written by: Dead Soon at 2008-08-23 20:00:45 | show this comment
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AMEN Dr. Scientist!!!!!
A M E R I C A ... LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A M E R I C A ... LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| written by: Just Sayin at 2008-08-30 21:39:38 | reply to this
im from Malaysia and i dont even see it on the map.. which is rather accurate because most people have no idea where Malaysia is.
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| written by: An at 2008-09-15 14:31:39 | show this comment
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im from canada and i don't get the mouse head part prolly should be moose head like the other dude said but its funny forsure and ill prolly call someone a mouse head just for kicks
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| written by: full-mag.com at 2008-11-21 03:45:45 | reply to this
So awesome, so true... love it!
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| written by: Not-American at 2008-12-25 21:39:07 | reply to this
No problem Fuck heads, next time you're invaded by another country, or some disease or natural disaster strikes your country, please don't ask U.S for help.
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| written by: craig at 2009-07-04 10:35:32 | reply to this
