>>Still, people in foreign countries will get a certain impression about Americans, don't you think? Perhaps it's wise that the US forbid the export of such tv-shows. <g>
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>Or pity anyone in foreign countries thick enough to make generalizations about a culture based on the audience in low-common-denominator TV show.
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>I would instead wonder why your local TV folks put the show on at all - perhaps they had enough contempt for *their* audience to believe there were people like you who would watch it.

You beat me to it. Well played.


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>>>If you're not interested in a game show, will you give your name to assist to the recording? Obviously, the producer get the audience who fit the show and they filter out from that pool who they want in. Is it a good representation of the country? Any good poll specialist will answer no.
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>>>>Or let me ask this: Do you think that the organizers of the tv-show have sought for years to find exactly enough childish Americans to make one audience for that day?