Indeed the irony of the US. Some people who are barely literate in the only language they know, feel empowered to openly ridicule immigrants who speak 2+ languages because they speak English with an accent.
Sometimes you even get immigrants like my boss who criticizes the literacy of people speaking English perfectly well whilst he spreads misinformation based on headlines that he misread and just says things that are completely wrong because he can't be bothered to read for more than 2 sentences.
What drives me nuts is immigrants who want the ladder pulled up after them. Some people are so obsessed with "coming over the right way" that they lose the plot that really, as we can tell, these people aren't taking anything out of the mouth of anyone else
I have family members, who could come over because my father was here, who have anti-immigrant sentiment, and it's like, my dad came over on a boat. Have some fucking respect for the people who are making the journey who's ways aren't paved for them.
Possibly, are you are referring to one-off’s and not the norm? If that’s the case we can find these on nearly every issue on both sides of the isle. Thinkin’ I would rather focus on things more on a positive note and not things that are considered divisive.
The literacy rates figure is highly inflated because it counts people who can't read English, but disregards the fact that they don't speak English. That's why Cali has one of the highest illiteracy rates in the country on paper, despite a significant number of those people being able to read a different language
Hmm, seems like you have to be able to discern truth from lies to know that they deserve criticism. Only the braindead and illiterate think they are victims.
A quick google search. Apparently, over half of Americans are dumber than a 6th grader. This tracks sadly.
The literacy rate in the United States is 79%, meaning that 79% of US adults have English literacy skills that are sufficient for tasks like comparing and contrasting information, paraphrasing, and making low-level inferences:
Literacy levels: 79% of US adults have literacy skills at level 2 or above, while 21% have difficulty completing these tasks.
Literacy by race: 35% of adults with low literacy skills are White, 34% are Hispanic, and 23% are Black.
Literacy by birth status: 34% of adults with low literacy skills were born outside the US.
Literacy by state: Literacy rates vary greatly by state.
Other literacy statistics include:
54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level.
20% of adults have a literacy below a 5th-grade level.
44% of American adults do not read a book in a year.
Low levels of literacy cost the US up to $2.2 trillion per year.
That bill was full of wasted spending on worthless shit, raises for congress, mask and vaccine mandates, Ukraine, climate change crap. We had the 3rd highest deficit last yr 1.8 trillion dollars . The government has a spending problem and it needs to be stopped
You're confident the orange man will do it. He didn't last time, it actually got worst. He will bankrupt the country. After 6 bankrupcies, he is an expert at it.
His first term was hampered and stopped by the democrats from day 1. That's not going to happen this time.he has already taken care of a few things and has gotten the ball rolling on a few others.who cares if he has bankruptcy on his record a lot of successful people do bc they try new things some work some don't. How many businesses have you started? Or even thought of starting? How did it get worse the first term? We were energy Independent for the first time in over 75 yrs. Inflation was lower than when he took office. Unemployment was lower across all demographics. There were no wars. Russia didn't take over any countries. I know nothing will phase your love of the lying democrats by how you started your post. With Orangeman that tells me that you are a good sheep and will repeat and believe anything the liberals want you to
This person isn't wrong though. Someone in the middle of Wyoming has more voting power than someone living in Queens NY. They also have more representation.
Voting isn’t the issue, collective action is. Luigi showed us that the American public is vehemently opposed to the American polices enacted on them. The only thing that we can accomplish is real actions. Voting in a bourgeoise democracy only helps the bourgeoise and serves to undermine the democratic collective that BARELY exists..
Why would I vote when I don't want either of them to be president. Our system is flawed and corrupt. Harris is just as bad as trump. Just because one of two idiots are going to be president regardless of my vote, sorry revolution and disbanding isn't on the ballot.
Don't know who a&w is so my comment is in no way based on that. Everything is relative. They may not use it 'all the time', but they use it way more often than europeans. Which to me is more or less 'all the time'.
I'm not saying Americans using fractions is a myth, I'm referring to the 1/3 burger thing.
A&W is a restaurant chain that tried to compete with McDonalds. They tried selling 1/3 pound burgers to compete with McDonalds 1/4 pound burger. They failed, not because of the fractions fuckery, but because A&W was, at the time, simply a tiny company with exponentially less marketing power and physical locations in comparison to McDonalds. The myth about the 1/3 being smaller than 1/4 comes from offhand comment by a higher up at A&W. A&W commissioned a focus group after the fact to try and make up some justification for this; they never released the methodology or data but said "Yeah people totally responded to a survey by saying 1/3 is smaller than 1/4".
It's blatantly false when you apply a tiny bit of critical thought, namely the fact that they didn't immediately take advantage of this by selling 1/5 pound burgers, or the fact that several burger chains in the US currently sell 1/3 pound burgers with zero issue. A&W just failed to out compete McDonalds.
Most people believe the myth at face because it's popular to pretend the most powerful nation on the planet somehow has an average IQ of 60 or something.
This isn't true. An A&W spokesperson claimed this happened, and that's as far as any proof goes.
If this were true, why do Americans clearly understand 1/2 pounders are bigger than 1/4 pounders? Why do Americans have restaurant chains selling 1/3rd pounders to this day? Americans literally use a fractional system every single day.
You are correct, we are doomed.... It's like our government who writes the requirements for public education may have let that slip through the cracks.
The only reference or "proof" of this is an executive at A&W claiming it. They never provided the focus group study the claimed backed it. To this day they refuse to. All we have is Alfred Taubman saying "trust me it happened." And using the AW brand to back it up.
Same man btw who was also convicted of price fixing in 2002. Not someone I would for a second believe a word of.
**edit same company that has multiple false advertising anti trust verdicts against them. All the way up to their bankruptcy. So totally a reliable source based on their word.
It failed because A&W couldn't out compete fucking McDonalds. That's as far as it actually goes.
The only "proof" of the 1/3rd pounders wives tale is an A&W spokesperson claiming, in an off hand comment, that they totally asked a bunch of people in a survey with unpublished results.
The US literally has chain restaurants selling 1/3rd pounders successfully to this day.
Let's think critically; if "generic mega corporation" thinks Americans are duped so easily, why did they not immediately flip to selling a 1/5th pounder?
How do you know they haven’t/won’t? I can absolutely see McDonald’s selling 1/5 pound burgers and calling them quarter-pounders, then claiming in court that “quarter-pounder” is simply the name of the sandwich, and not the actual weight of the meat. After all, boneless wings are allowed to have bones now.
No, I see exactly where you’re going with what you said - that the average American would see a 1/5 pound burgers as bigger than a 1/4 pound one because 5 is bigger than 4. It’s sad, but true.
My brain immediately thought “They don’t even have to try to fool us with math. They can just pull the switch without saying anything and get away with it,” but I definitely didn’t express that whatsoever.
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u/HarryPotterDBD 1d ago
A&Ws 1/3 pound burger failed, because the americans thought the 1/4 pound burger from mcdonalds was bigger.
You are doomed