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sylvanus

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123. 5-8 and proud of it!

Reply to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 11:27 AM

Mar 2013

If being involved in American culture means eating at Applebee's talking about Nascar, Honey Boo Boo and Dancing with the stars while drinking crappy Domestic Mass Market Beer and then going to see the latest Super Hero/Kids cartoon made into a "movie". Well then no, I don't want to leave my bubble and embrace American culture.
I'll stay in my bubble were I have science and good beer, and can watch brit coms, and movies where I have to read subtitles and have conversations with my wife about things were reading and are interested in. I'm not going to
embrace ignorance and bad taste, to fit in with a culture on a fast food diet of cultural crap.
Jeez when did mediocrity become the way to bring America back together.

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How Thick Is Your Bubble? [View all] proud2BlibKansan Mar 2013 OP

Between 9 and12 rustydog Mar 2013 #1

Between 9 and 12. Jim__ Mar 2013 #2

Result cherokeeprogressive Mar 2013 #3

Same as YOU! PearliePoo2 Mar 2013 #12

That's what I got too. proud2BlibKansan Mar 2013 #29

I don't want to be fully engaged with mainstream American culture alarimer Mar 2013 #63

Between 5 and 8. Comrade_McKenzie Mar 2013 #4

Me too, Comrade XemaSab Mar 2013 #32

I also got between 5 and 8 mrsadm Mar 2013 #103

Me too! But if they referred to Denny's Euphoria Mar 2013 #104

Same here treestar Mar 2013 #128

Between 13 and 16... ret5hd Mar 2013 #5

Right with you... Agschmid Mar 2013 #70

that's me too Skittles Mar 2013 #76

Me too! n/t phylny Mar 2013 #83

Between 9 and 12 BlueJazz Mar 2013 #6

Yeah, I got between 9 and 12 too. fasttense Mar 2013 #106

Ruh roh aristocles Mar 2013 #7

Oh, you are OK. Perhaps occupying the White House is not in your cards question everything Mar 2013 #27

Me, too. And somehow, life will go on. WorseBeforeBetter Mar 2013 #35

Well, apparently... pipi_k Mar 2013 #8

my score as well VanillaRhapsody Mar 2013 #34

Clearly an AEI product. That is, it was written annabanana Mar 2013 #9

^^^ This. ^^^ Iggo Mar 2013 #115

Between 9 and 12. Control-Z Mar 2013 #10

I find a lot of those markers to be so simplistic as to be useless. Brickbat Mar 2013 #11

Agreed oberliner Mar 2013 #14

i agree with you olddots Mar 2013 #101

Bad quiz Spider Jerusalem Mar 2013 #13

I would argue that socioeconomics creates cultural groups proud2BlibKansan Mar 2013 #30

But so does geography. Spider Jerusalem Mar 2013 #33

Yup nadinbrzezinski Mar 2013 #50

Yes, being urban and western kiva Mar 2013 #61

^^^ this ^^^ TDale313 Mar 2013 #129

Yep. Iggo Mar 2013 #117

Exactly my problem with it. annabanana Mar 2013 #56

Thank you. SheilaT Mar 2013 #87

Yes too many questions are conditioned on multiple correlated criteria HereSince1628 Mar 2013 #108

I think BO 08 Mar 2013 #15

Does high school band / 4th of July count? Demeter Mar 2013 #19

They aren't excluded. They are among the parades JDPriestly Mar 2013 #86

Labor was included in one of the questions: freshwest Mar 2013 #97

Q0: Are you white? toddaa Mar 2013 #16

I scored between 13 and 16 hunter Mar 2013 #17

Thicker than my skin Demeter Mar 2013 #18

You scored between 5 and 8. sakabatou Mar 2013 #20

Between 13 and 16 kairos12 Mar 2013 #21

Between 9 and 12 ..... oldhippie Mar 2013 #22

Same here. freshwest Mar 2013 #98

Apparently I don't have one tularetom Mar 2013 #23

'inspired by'. though anything with aei involved in any way is suspect. HiPointDem Mar 2013 #51

Between 5 and 8 question everything Mar 2013 #24

Question for you, question... Cal Carpenter Mar 2013 #122

13 to 16 cliffordu Mar 2013 #25

Between 13-16 B2G Mar 2013 #26

between 5-8, but this test doesn't measure empathy, nor an open mind. unblock Mar 2013 #28

13-16 nt Broken_Hero Mar 2013 #31

5-8 sweetNsassy Mar 2013 #36

9-12 nt Nye Bevan Mar 2013 #37

No bubble here. ohheckyeah Mar 2013 #38

Hmm ... ananda Mar 2013 #39

I would respectfully contend pipi_k Mar 2013 #45

between 9 & 12 SteveG Mar 2013 #40

I don't have a bubble. murielm99 Mar 2013 #41

"you scored between 9 and 12." LWolf Mar 2013 #42

Between 9 and 12 union_maid Mar 2013 #43

13-16, "You don't even have a bubble." Robb Mar 2013 #44

I need to go buy a pickup to break out of my cultural isolation... FarCenter Mar 2013 #46

A pickup truck can be a very useful vehicle. ... spin Mar 2013 #130

Seems flawed. MyshkinCommaPrince Mar 2013 #47

it's not really about income, it's about contact with people who don't fit the upper middle white HiPointDem Mar 2013 #49

Seems like... MyshkinCommaPrince Mar 2013 #54

All this did was make me angry with myself for taking a stupid AEI quiz. KittyWampus Mar 2013 #55

I agree, it is flawed. ronnie624 Mar 2013 #91

Apparently the source has an agenda MyshkinCommaPrince Mar 2013 #93

Yup. ronnie624 Mar 2013 #94

13-16 HiPointDem Mar 2013 #48

Charles Murray - Bush apologist and libertarian fruitloop GoneOffShore Mar 2013 #52

AEI? Charles Murray? Union Scribe Mar 2013 #53

IDK, but sounds repuke to me... CATO and others touted now. freshwest Mar 2013 #99

Sylvia Plath forgives you rucky Mar 2013 #105

Shit, sorry Ms. Plath lol. nt Union Scribe Mar 2013 #125

I don't even have a bubble.... Th1onein Mar 2013 #57

5 - 8 applegrove Mar 2013 #58

Lost me at Charles Murray tjwash Mar 2013 #59

13-16 but the test is significantly bunk and one might score damn near 20 and be bubble boy too TheKentuckian Mar 2013 #60

The scoring in this quiz should be reversed, Mr. Bell Curve. kwassa Mar 2013 #62

I live in a "bubble" of my own making, but I score high. hunter Mar 2013 #79

I've been around a lot of the stuff ... kwassa Mar 2013 #80

5-8, and I have no desire to go hunting or fishing, watch NASCAR Ruby the Liberal Mar 2013 #64

I scored between 0-4 and I'm proud of it. alarimer Mar 2013 #65

Mine was between 9-12, which I don't have a problem with Heddi Mar 2013 #66

9-12 apparently. bemildred Mar 2013 #67

More Libertarian Tripe? nt msanthrope Mar 2013 #68

This quiz is inspired by American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray's new book, ronnie624 Mar 2013 #92

0 to 4 FreeJoe Mar 2013 #69

Thanks for posting very fun! Kick. Agschmid Mar 2013 #71

9 and 12 nt frogmarch Mar 2013 #72

Between 9 and 12 Generic Brad Mar 2013 #73

Between 9 and 12 Blue_In_AK Mar 2013 #74

I got 64 snooper2 Mar 2013 #75

I disagree with that last question about hanging out w/smokers. Honeycombe8 Mar 2013 #77

Between 9 and 12. MrSlayer Mar 2013 #78

Between 9 and 12. n/t Adsos Letter Mar 2013 #81

Between 5 and 8. Apophis Mar 2013 #82

"At least 17" was my score stevenleser Mar 2013 #84

Between 5 and 8. n/t Greybnk48 Mar 2013 #85

If I'm 9-12, the test is inaccurate. JDPriestly Mar 2013 #88

i haven't got one :shrug: Scout Mar 2013 #89

0-4 Jamaal510 Mar 2013 #90

Between 5 and 8. Doc_Technical Mar 2013 #95

Apparently, I wasn't indulging in enough consumerism/entertainment to be mainstream. freshwest Mar 2013 #96

between 5 and 8. AsahinaKimi Mar 2013 #100

"...even if you're part of the new upper class..." Art_from_Ark Mar 2013 #102

So not drinking beer and hanging out with smokers puts me in an Codeine Mar 2013 #107

0 - 4 Tracer Mar 2013 #109

Watching a Transformers movie and knowing who the Nascar guy is.. LeftinOH Mar 2013 #110

Between 5 and 8 Aerows Mar 2013 #111

I don't have a bubble. Javaman Mar 2013 #112

9 to 12...must watch *more* NASCAR... WhaTHellsgoingonhere Mar 2013 #113

5 and 8... though I thought a few questions were unfair/debatable. READ PLEASE MillennialDem Mar 2013 #114

0 to 4. What's a bubble? nt GliderGuider Mar 2013 #116

Are you an elitist snob? el_bryanto Mar 2013 #118

My result: 99Forever Mar 2013 #119

I played Mr Bigo.... I mean Murray's little game and this is what I got:: Guy Whitey Corngood Mar 2013 #120

No bubble Puzzledtraveller Mar 2013 #121

5-8 and proud of it! sylvanus Mar 2013 #123

Errrrrrr . . . HughBeaumont Mar 2013 #124

this is an attempt to revive the red state / blue state narrative Enrique Mar 2013 #126

The AEI would be afraid of that. Dawson Leery Mar 2013 #127