A documentary on NBC last week revealed that Eskimos are 20% brighter than the average American. According to the study, if President Kennedy had not committed America to the Apollo moon missions in the sixties, Innuits would have beaten the USA onto the moon. Does this revelation make Americans feel inferior to Eskimos?
2007-01-19 23:11:53 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Are you saying that Eskimos are claiming to be smarter than Americans, themselves, or that they are lying about how smart they truly are? To answer your question...I, as an American, feel confused.
I trust you are not Inuit as you misspelled Inuit and you put an apostrophe in Americans (an Inuit probably wouldn't make such a simple mistake.) It is also strange that an Eskimo would say they are much smarter than an American, because the vast majority of Inuits live in North America. If anyone can claim to be American, it should be them. Maybe they should claim to be smarter than other Americans. Or, perhaps, only the ones living in Siberia should claim that they are smarter than the average American.
Ethnicity aside, you have to figure that 49.9999% of Americans are smarter than the average American, so it's not that big of a deal I guess.
I also have a question about that study...have Inuits landed on the moon yet? I wasn't even aware that they had a space program.
2007-01-19 23:33:57 · answer #1 · answered by Kyle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many many Innuits are in fact American citizens, so you basic premise is flawed.
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2007-01-19 23:17:09 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no... it would be logical that they are smarter. i mean most of us americans sit around all day whatching tv playing video games on the computer...what do Eskimos do...they go hunting they have had to learn to live under harsh conditions for generations... so no... i dont feel mad that they might be smarter than us.
2007-01-19 23:23:41 · answer #3 · answered by Ginny 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋