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In Reply to: Does religion exist in the United States? posted by Ryan Dunnigan on May 14, 1998 at 01:54:44:

To answer the question of "What's important to this country?" There is a theory that in order to judge the most important things inside a culture, one has to look at how many words that society has to describe one thing. For example, the Eskimos have over 13 words in describing different kinds of snow. I remember hearing about a study that tried to determine what objects in the U.S. had the most names used to descibe them. Well the result came out in a dead lock tie between two things that, according to this theory, are the most important to this society. The winners were MONEY and PENIS. I hope there is no truth to this theory for our sake.

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