>Jacob Conrad wrote:
>
>>The different versions of the "Americans are stupid and/or vicious"
>>thesis (to the extent they're seriously meant) can be dismissed as
>>lacking surface plausibility. There's no reason to think that such
>>a large sample of the earth's population, 290 million or so, is any
>>more or less stupid and/or vicious than any other sizeable
>>group--Norwegians, Tibetans, Trobriand Islanders, take your pick.
>
>Not in any biological sense
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Sorry to dissent from that bit without saying how good the rest of it was.
Doug