[lbo-talk] Re: collective i.q. of yankees

[frank scott]

"...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."

absolutely, and it's ignorant and disrespectful to think
otherwise...but...as regards knowledge of the rest of the world, we are,
if not the most,  certainly among the  most ignorant people on the
planet...

fs