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 Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:13 am
Proudly_Jewish Dave Quote: United States 98 Canada 97 We're smarter than Canada? biggrin Look, I don't mean to be rude... but this is probably why people don't like Americans. You see a number published in a book with very the results of biased, one-sided tests and assume it to be some kind of very solid fact? Please use your common sense: a) In most of the coutnries tested for that book, only a couple hundred people were used. b) Following your logic, Europeans are smarter than black people because many African countries scored very poorly on those IQ tests. (No offence or anything, I'm sorry if I come off as rude. sweatdrop ) I was being facetious. It just struck me as funny that those results showed the US as having higher IQs than Canada, when I would assume it would be the other way around.
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Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 8:25 pm
Dave Proudly_Jewish Dave Quote: United States 98 Canada 97 We're smarter than Canada? biggrin Look, I don't mean to be rude... but this is probably why people don't like Americans. You see a number published in a book with very the results of biased, one-sided tests and assume it to be some kind of very solid fact? Please use your common sense: a) In most of the coutnries tested for that book, only a couple hundred people were used. b) Following your logic, Europeans are smarter than black people because many African countries scored very poorly on those IQ tests. (No offence or anything, I'm sorry if I come off as rude. sweatdrop ) I was being facetious. It just struck me as funny that those results showed the US as having higher IQs than Canada, when I would assume it would be the other way around. It's alright. Sorry for being so rude btw sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:03 am
Would you say surfing Gaia often makes you familiar with the American culture? I've been wondering about this... I've never been to the USA, but I get the impression I'm exposed to it enough to be very familiar with it. But maybe I'm wrong. XP
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 9:37 pm
I've learnt much of what I know from America through TV. Perhaps 80% of our television comes from the US (Australian by the way) and for me the worste influence is The Simpsons.
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Spanish Nerd Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:32 am
F. Fritzi Would you say surfing Gaia often makes you familiar with the American culture? I've been wondering about this... I've never been to the USA, but I get the impression I'm exposed to it enough to be very familiar with it. But maybe I'm wrong. XP No, you're right. whee Welcome to America. mrgreen
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Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:32 am
WellzY I've learnt much of what I know from America through TV. Perhaps 80% of our television comes from the US (Australian by the way) and for me the worste influence is The Simpsons. I heart The Simpsons. razz
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Spanish Nerd Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:53 pm
spanishnerd99 WellzY I've learnt much of what I know from America through TV. Perhaps 80% of our television comes from the US (Australian by the way) and for me the worste influence is The Simpsons. I heart The Simpsons. razz So do I. heart
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:26 am
We probably also get 80% of TV shows from USA, then 10% is local, 5% is British and 5% more are probably Japanese cartoons. XP
This has just completely screwed up my English.
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:37 am
Personaly, I shudder with horror that people are learning of my country's culture through TV. I suppose it works, but, well, I don't much like my country's culture, especialy what is on TV!
Don't get me wrong; I don't 'hate' America or wish to bash it, I just don't fit in well with it. Yes, I was born in the U.S., all the same I clash horribly with the pop culture around me and have been told repetedly that my temperment, nature, habits and so on are more akin to the British.
Either way, please just keep this one thing in mind; same as with the people from any country, those of us in the US are not all alike. smile
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:13 pm
Sir_Catherine Personaly, I shudder with horror that people are learning of my country's culture through TV. I suppose it works, but, well, I don't much like my country's culture, especialy what is on TV!
Don't get me wrong; I don't 'hate' America or wish to bash it, I just don't fit in well with it. Yes, I was born in the U.S., all the same I clash horribly with the pop culture around me and have been told repetedly that my temperment, nature, habits and so on are more akin to the British.
Either way, please just keep this one thing in mind; same as with the people from any country, those of us in the US are not all alike. smile agreed
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:01 pm
We're incredibly diverse, actually.
"Melting pot," and all that.
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 3:09 am
Sir_Catherine Personaly, I shudder with horror that people are learning of my country's culture through TV. I suppose it works, but, well, I don't much like my country's culture, especialy what is on TV!
Don't get me wrong; I don't 'hate' America or wish to bash it, I just don't fit in well with it. Yes, I was born in the U.S., all the same I clash horribly with the pop culture around me and have been told repetedly that my temperment, nature, habits and so on are more akin to the British.
Either way, please just keep this one thing in mind; same as with the people from any country, those of us in the US are not all alike. smile I'm not too fussed. The culture of the US hasn't influences me too much, but I find it strange that I probably know just as much about the US as I do about my own country. Okay well maybe not that much, but considering I've never taken a subject which specifically has focused on the US, I know a lot. Dave -- Define melting pot? I think the battle for most mutli-cultural state is between Canada and Australia.
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:06 am
WellzY Sir_Catherine Personaly, I shudder with horror that people are learning of my country's culture through TV. I suppose it works, but, well, I don't much like my country's culture, especialy what is on TV!
Don't get me wrong; I don't 'hate' America or wish to bash it, I just don't fit in well with it. Yes, I was born in the U.S., all the same I clash horribly with the pop culture around me and have been told repetedly that my temperment, nature, habits and so on are more akin to the British.
Either way, please just keep this one thing in mind; same as with the people from any country, those of us in the US are not all alike. smile I'm not too fussed. The culture of the US hasn't influences me too much, but I find it strange that I probably know just as much about the US as I do about my own country. Okay well maybe not that much, but considering I've never taken a subject which specifically has focused on the US, I know a lot. Dave -- Define melting pot? I think the battle for most mutli-cultural state is between Canada and Australia. Never heard the term 'melting pot' in refrence to the US? Well, you learn something every day I suppose. Traditionaly the US has been viewed as a 'melting pot' of cultures and traditions brought here by the thousands of immigrants over the years, most of whom integrated with the society already present but most of whom also added their own collorful touch to life here. Our history is one of many peoples trying to live together.
Part of why it is so hard to define US culture is because of this melting pot. The down side is that no one culture feels as represented as it should be because the predominent culture here is not actualy a culture at all, least not one of an historical group. Instead it is a purly modern society in which dozens of cultural groups vie to keep their indentity. That is how I view this melting pot of ours.
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:03 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 9:23 pm
Sir_Catherine WellzY Sir_Catherine Personaly, I shudder with horror that people are learning of my country's culture through TV. I suppose it works, but, well, I don't much like my country's culture, especialy what is on TV!
Don't get me wrong; I don't 'hate' America or wish to bash it, I just don't fit in well with it. Yes, I was born in the U.S., all the same I clash horribly with the pop culture around me and have been told repetedly that my temperment, nature, habits and so on are more akin to the British.
Either way, please just keep this one thing in mind; same as with the people from any country, those of us in the US are not all alike. smile I'm not too fussed. The culture of the US hasn't influences me too much, but I find it strange that I probably know just as much about the US as I do about my own country. Okay well maybe not that much, but considering I've never taken a subject which specifically has focused on the US, I know a lot. Dave -- Define melting pot? I think the battle for most mutli-cultural state is between Canada and Australia. Never heard the term 'melting pot' in refrence to the US? Well, you learn something every day I suppose. Traditionaly the US has been viewed as a 'melting pot' of cultures and traditions brought here by the thousands of immigrants over the years, most of whom integrated with the society already present but most of whom also added their own collorful touch to life here. Our history is one of many peoples trying to live together.
Part of why it is so hard to define US culture is because of this melting pot. The down side is that no one culture feels as represented as it should be because the predominent culture here is not actualy a culture at all, least not one of an historical group. Instead it is a purly modern society in which dozens of cultural groups vie to keep their indentity. That is how I view this melting pot of ours.No I've heard it, but a lot of places like to chuck around the whole 'multi-cultural' thing, that to me it means next to nothing now.
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