Americans are...
Wed, 2006-01-25 17:04
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Americans are...
Try 'Americans are' in this fascinating suggestible search engine that gives answers based on the most oft repeated phrases out there in internet world..
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en(link is external)
Is this a reflection of our (the worlds) sum prejudices when it comes to Americans? Is this a reliable way to find out what people really think about each other?
As always things are more complicated than they seem:
Try 'Americans are g' instead and compare numbers with the previous lot.
Still, a fascinating exercise anyway and I look forward to what you creative lot will come up with....
I think we are rapidly moving to a world with NO secrets. Is that a good thing?
archergirl
Curious search engine! As an expat Yank I find it quite sad that so many bad attributes are associated with my fellow countrypeople (out of curiosity I tried 'Brits' and 'English' and got 'coming' and 'blowing'...?).
Like most blanket statements, these are egregiously wrong. It's disturbing: the 2,600,000 searches for 'Americans are stupid' (certainly, we're not ALL stupid, are we? At least 51% of the populace voted for Al Gore in the first usurped Bush 'election' and desperately voted for Kerry in the second...); can one sum up a population of 357 million people with a few short words? It seems, also, to be more generally acceptable to slag off Americans than it would be for me to say, for example, that all Muslims are camel-jockey terrorists. I'm no raging patriot, and I've met quite a few dumb Americans, but then, I've met dumb Brits, dumb Mexicans, dumb Navajo, dumb Bosnians, dumb Thais, dumb Malaysians, etc. etc. ad infinitum. We might have a hegemony, but we don't hold the patent for stupidity!
(Did that sound defensive?)
I'm not sure we'll ever have a world without secrets, not until we come to a state of evolution where secrets are no longer necessary as a survival tool. While we still get punished in all sorts of ways for the 'truth', we'll keep telling lies...
ely_whitley
My God AG, I guess the 'I'm with Stupid' t-shirt was your idea huh? what are you, some kind or moron magnet? (just joshin wid ya there kiddo)
Ian is... (in order of popularity)
1: Hot (Tell me something I DON'T know)
2: (nothing, just 'Ian is')
3: Gay (Well I guess I asked for that)
Notice I put Ian and not Ely, this is because 'Ely is' produces only two choices: Ely Isle and Ely Island.
as an additional note here I always thought Ely Whitley was a googlewhack but it seems there was one Ely Hobson Whitley born Jan 11 1836 in Boone County, Missouri.
Brooklands
The French are...
rude, gay, cowards. Apparently.
mississippi
It's not all wrong then!
hox
mississippi
missouri
miss selfridge
hahahahaha
Jack Cade
Tea is good for you/bad for you/the new coffee