Population density of the U.S.: 80 people per square mile.
Seems like a lot of folks think the U.S. is denser than it is.
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No harm done if a peaceful little country is full of gullible, ignorant people who believe everything they're told. But if that's the populace of a large, powerful nation then this happens:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...ary_operations
http://timeinmoments.wordpress.com/2...ment-post-ww2/
And since this ignorance has a huge effect on people all over the world it is understandable that US politics is much more a topic the world over than that of Denmark or Switzerland. If Americans take offense to that fine, but you reap what you sow.
But it should be no surprise that someone from the middle of Kansas, several thousand miles from the nearest foreign country, should be less interested in international affairs than someone from a tiny country surrounded by lots of other countries, like Switzerland.
Yeah, whatever.
But I'd rather have hosted US bases on the soil of my home country for the last sixty years than Soviet or Chinese ones...
They wouldn ́t - would they??
I was looking for an informed article on how easy it is to bribe your way to a qualification in Harvard. Not very easy it seems (no sh!t, really? surprise, surprise!), according to someone who has been there and got the T-shirt. If the same article appeared on the Huffington Post or Kos website, I would be open minded enough to give it equal merit. The posters who I really appreciate are those like weejeem, who challenge the BS in general circulation by doing some research instead of cutting and pasting wholesale from Wikipedia. The trouble with BS is that it relies on volume and repetition, it almost never stands up to serious scrutiny by serious minds.
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Jim
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Jim
And if you get the Swiss citizenship, you better abstain from such gestures, as otherwise, you might get transferred to a clinic like the Burghölzli for immediate and urgent treatment
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if this is a joke, it is a dull one. Iraq and Iran, except the similar names, do not have a lot in common actually. Majority-wise Muslim -- yes, roughly in the same geographical region, but that's it. You might explain what other common things you see.
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Sure, but US Americans are given far more attention than the citizens of that strange little European republic, and tend to be more numerous somehow
russians moved out after germany paid massive cash. lets pay them amis too?
I have no argument with the idea that the German / Japanese cars are technically superior, but I was stating that it is a horses for courses situation. You would not try to get a race-horse to plough a field.
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Jim
Actually, if you consider the whole of the US, willingness to teach Creationism (or any other religious doctorine) as "fact" in opposition to Evolution IS something of an anomoly. Most schools in the many areas of the country where I lived allow for such things as a means to educate about cultural, social and religious diversity rather than some sort of "known" fact.
Even when I lived in Texas (granted, it was quite a while ago) - a state which tends to have a deeply religious leaning - there was a lot of "it is believed by some" liberally peppered through such teachings about Creationism and "evidence suggests" peppered through teachings regarding Evolution.
It is pretty interesting to me to see folks compare what they believe America as a whole is presented as believing (and teaching according to such beliefs) to what comparatively "tiny" countries as a whole are presented as believing (and teaching according to belief).
Thinking about it critically, you can, with some modicum validity, compare what the whole of a particular state in the US believes (as example, the state of Virginia and the country Switzerland have similar number of residents) but to lump everyone - or even any number greater than a "minority" - in America into one defined belief is pretty silly.
Teaching Creationism IS a something of a "fringe" thing in the US as well but less obviously "fringe" in states where religion is held in a place of importance... You really are unlikely to see a local populace in anything other than an uproar if such teachings are slated to be allowed in many areas of the US.
Of course, since so much of what happens in the US is seen around the world in one way or another, there is no escaping notice for our "fringe" people.