Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked."Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat."I don't know," Alice answered."Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
"So long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation. "Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."
"All right," said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone. "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice; "but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!"
- Name: beepbeepitsme
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I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. Like Arthur Dent from "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy", if you do not have a Babel Fish in your ear this blog will be completely unintelligible to you and will read something like this: "boggle, google, snoggle, slurp, slurp, dingleberry to the power of 10". Fortunately, those who have had the Babel Fish inserted in their ear, will understood this blog perfectly. If you are familiar with this technology, you will know that the Babel Fish lives on brainwave radiation. It excretes energy in the form of exactly the correct brainwaves needed by its host to understand what was just said; or in this case, what was read. The Babel Fish, thanks to scientific research, reverses the problem defined by its namesake in the Tower of Babel, where a deity was supposedly inspired to confuse the human race by making them unable to understand each other.
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5 Comments:
40% of young Americans can speak a foreign language?! I don't believe it, that's way too much for them... I'm sure that's just the Hispanic population.
Yes, maybe it is because they speak Spanish.
The US respondents beat the Mexican respondent's scores while Canada only did marginally better than the US.
If anything, this poll shows that North Americans (not just Americans) are sadly lacking in geographical knowledge. I would suggest this is because of our lack of need to travel as compared to Europeans whose borders are close together. Also, this poll doesn't show the scores of Middle East countries, China, Russia, etc. This would be of value in assessing the value of this poll...
I'm not surprised that 6 in 10 young Americans (or Canadians, for that matter) can't speak a foreign language fluently -- they can't speak their own language fluently!
I'm almost sure you already seen Zak Attack productions video in youtube, about atheism in north america. If not, check it here http://sincroniaconciencia.blogspot.com/
I call it just a sample, because in defense of what Jeff might say, there have to be done samples in other places and social groups too. To be fair, there must be many other relevant people that profess some religion.
May be there's also a danger in generalize some true stadistics, we must look deeper
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