Darüber befragt, ob man an amerikanischen Schulen
arabische Ziffern lehren sollte, lehnten etwa 56% dieses Ansinnen ab. Wobei deutlich mehr Republikaner als Demokraten dieser Ansicht waren:
Should Americans, as part of their school curriculum, learn Arabic numerals?
CivicScience, a Pittsburgh-based research firm, put that question to some 3,200 Americans recently in a poll seemingly about mathematics, but the outcome was a measure of students’ attitudes toward the Arab world. Some 56 percent of the respondents said, “No.” Fifteen percent had no opinion.
That fact prompted John Dick, the chief executive of the polling company, to label the finding “the saddest and funniest testament to American bigotry we’ve ever seen in our data.”
Presumably, the Americans who opposed the teaching of Arabic numerals (Republicans in greater proportion than Democrats) lacked the basic knowledge of what they are and also had some aversion to anything described as “Arabic.”
Quelle:
The New York TimesIls sont fous, ces Américains. (Obélix)
JFTR: Ich glaube nicht, dass das Ergebnis bei uns großartig anders ausgefallen wäre - in der Tendenz.
Kommentare (1)
In Amerika werden die römischen Ziffern verwendet