oh my gosh, read this...

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oh my gosh, read this...

Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Tue Nov 09, 2004 5:49 pm

http://www.msu.edu/~jdowell/miner.html#anchor876436

read this! this is quite amazing!

once you're done reading, highlight the spoiler tag...

[spoiler]What is Nacirema spelled backwards? And what about latipso?[/spoiler]

[spoiler]ITS AMERICA AND OSPITAL! (supposed to be Hospital)

its kinda funny, its some sort of satrical essay on the USA, making it sound like its some foreign country.[/spoiler]

propz to pat on this, he gave me the link
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Postby pp1n0i135 » Tue Nov 09, 2004 5:56 pm

ryan it is exactly how a foreign country would think of America if they did a study on our culture
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Postby Waterlillee » Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:00 pm

haha~ lol~!^^
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Postby Locke » Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:09 pm

if aliens looked at the US.... :eh:
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:16 pm

exactally! and the thing is, is that we do the exact same thing to other contries!
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Postby ShiroiHikari » Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:17 pm

lol very interesting.
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Postby Locke » Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:19 pm

we are the aliens....SAVE THE HUMANS!!
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Postby Fsiphskilm » Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:57 pm

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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:59 pm

haha volt, ya scared me there
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Postby AsterlonKnight » Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:59 pm

I remember that story. It was in the reader for my Anthropology class. :)
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Postby Jasdero » Tue Nov 09, 2004 7:02 pm

XD!!!!! Aliens, yo!!! <.< >.>
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Postby Icarus » Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:32 pm

That was in my reader for English. I love it.

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Postby Aka-chan » Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:22 am

Haha, that's very, very clever!
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Postby termyt » Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:02 am

Kind of hits some nails square on their heads, doesn't it?

That will probably be very close to how future generations regard us and as we regard generations long past.
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Postby cbwing0 » Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:24 am

An interesting article. It is amazing how much adversiting has tricked us into believing that we are beset by all sorts of conditions that do not really exist, and can only be prevented by buying their products. Still, the article does contain some exaggerations, probably added to keep the gag going until the end.
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Postby RoyalWing » Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:48 pm

I had to read carefully, but when I understood, oh, laughed so hard... I put it in my favourites.

My favourite part is... the whole thing, I really don't know! >w<;;
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Postby Zane » Thu Nov 11, 2004 1:56 am

It was written by an Anthropologist to show how you can take anything and turn it into something really random and aas Volt said "savage", Anthropologist are pretty anti-christian/God (its all superstion) and particularly missionari4es (they destroy culture) but they do bring up some interesting points and their aim is to point out all the similairties rather than differences between people.

Its an intersting subject to look into for abit, but they are pretty antichristian, there are christian anthropologists, but as an institution its anti.
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