Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.
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Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.
Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.
Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.
Americans don't care what your language is, your race is, whatever. Everyone is there to do their own thing and be successful. I wish people in Britain would be more positive.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
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