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merlin

I left my home county (US) because when I looked around me I saw everyone was ignorant.
Then I went to another country (Korea) and everyone there was ignorant, too.
I stayed a while in England and dammit, again everyone was jus so ignorant I couldn't stand it.
I went to Czech and for a time I thought "Hey, this is cool. These people agree with me that everyone is ignorant." Then I rose above it and realized how ignorant it was to believe every other culture is ignorant.
Through the years I've also gained considerable expereince with other peoples and the result is always the same: Japanese - ignorant. Taiwanese - ignorant. Europeans - ignorant in a cultured kind of way. Arabs - unbelieveably ignorant.

So my question goes out to all of you: Where in the world can I find people who aren't ignornat?

Tounge-in-cheek replies only, please. Serious posters will be flamed.

Sadken · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 341

Tonga?

badtyndale · Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 181 Location: In the tool shed

Argentina, or not?

(Anagram)

(Are not ignorant)

dialectic · Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 59

ask distiller

why are the germans ignorant again ?

racism doesnt equal ignorance does it ?

spidey · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 12:06 pm Post subject:

I'm a bonefide member of IA (Ignoramuses Anonymous)

What does ignoramuses mean? Confused

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Tavsan adasi(Rabbit Island) in the Turkish Med. (It's unpopulated. Probably got a few ignorant rabbits though)

shmooj · Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1758 Location: Seoul, ROK

Pitcairn Island... it's population is so small that everyone knows everyone and everything about them.

merlin · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 1:24 pm Post subject:

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

Hmm, an American calling all other Americans ignorant.

Hello, Pot. This is Kettle. You're black.

merlin · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 1:48 pm Post subject:

Say, Glenski. I was just thinking about you in the post above.

How'd you like to be a teacher trainer at my school on rabbit island? The absence of students and teachers your concept of teaching would make more sense and fall right in line with our Rabbit Island English School's mission statement. Of course you have to submit your resume in Haiku. No exceptions.

gtidey · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 93

Shock Latest!

Kettle Talks To Pot!

The Great Wall of Whiner · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 4946 Location: Blabbing

Antarctica.

Sadken · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 341

moonraven · Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 3094

I think we've been barking up the wrong tree here.

There is a difference between being ignorant and not being conscious. It's consciousness that we should be inculcating. Some folks are ignorant because they are too poor to be able to interact with a sufficient number of different folks and places. In Latin America many fall into that category. They can still be conscious. And many are.

In places like the US there is no excuse for ignorance--but there is a reason: folks from the US, in the majority, think they are the only people who matter and that no country apart from the US matters. They are both ignorant and unconscious.

The unconscious is a realm populated by unrealized desires, bogey men and things that go bump in the night. When you live there your mode of life is that of fear.

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

To merlin the troll,