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11:12 - American ignorance is rubbing off
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040429/323/esclg.html
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...Or, possibly, it's nothing more in the first place than a bitter, vindictive myth.
Around one in 10 people in Britain are looking forward to Luvania joining the European Union this weekend. That's right, Luvania.
Telcoms provider One.Tel invited participants in an marketing survey to identify the 10 EU accession nations -- and cheekily added fictional Luvania to the list as a red herring.
Eight percent of all 2,500 respondents plumped for the mythical country -- a proportion that went up to nine percent among Scots, and 11 percent among over-50s.
"People aren't generally aware," One.Tel spokesman Carol Barnes said Thursday. "They're more involved in their day-to-day lives rather than the bigger picture of what is going on in the EU."
What are you doing, Ms. Barnes—trying to provide justification for this kind of ignorance among the British masses?
Oh really? You take exception to being called masses? Well then how about cutting us a little slack as well, huh? This goes for Michael Moore too: just because we don't all have frequently-used passports or know useless foreign languages doesn't make Americans any more ignorant than anybody else.
It means we have lives.
(Via Chinpokomon.)
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Brian Tiemann
