collegerankings

  • Subscribe to our RSS feed.
  • Twitter
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Facebook
  • Digg

Monday, August 6, 2012

What foreigners think of the US

Posted on 3:46 PM by Unknown
Some thoughts on how foreigners see America based on a heavily selected sample, but still of interest.

I would agree that the flags are creepy at times and the portions are too big.

The miracle of the traffic is stronger away from the northeast and the beltway. I had friends in college from the east coast who marveled at the level of social capital on display on Seattle highways.
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Posted in | No comments
Newer Post Older Post Home

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Popular Posts

  • Michigan 28, Akron 24
    Dodging a bullet does not even begin to describe this near debacle, with Akron having shots into the end zone on the final four plays! Local...
  • Book: Paying for the Party by Armstrong and Hamilton
    Armstrong, Elizabeth and Laura Hamilton. 2013. Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University P...
  • In praise of payday lenders
    From the Atlantic, something I never thought I would see: a thoughtful, empirically grounded defense of payday lenders and other alternati...
  • Cheaters welcome at Harvard
    This survey of the incoming class , reported in the Harvard Crimson, is a bit troubling. Of course, this is what folks at Chicago suspected ...
  • Assorted links
    1. McCayla is not impressed . 2. The FT at home with John Sununu . 3. Mayor Bloomberg doesn't like vibrators either. He is such a fun g...
  • Assorted links
    1. Sometimes Social Security stinks for reasons other than its weak design . 2. Cool old computers that people still use. I have a working ...
  • Assorted links
    1. Rob Mercer on tradition . Why does Canada produce so many good comedians? One suspects it has something to do with living next door to th...
  • Assorted links
    1. Drunken island monkeys . 2. Free speech versus occupational licensing in Kentucky. 3. Virginia Postrel on how to save Barnes and Noble ....
  • Economists for Romney (or Obama)
    Smart words from Larry Kotlikoff on why economists should not be in the business of endorsing presidential candidates. He does undermine hi...
  • LaLonde on WIA book
    Bob Lalonde reviews the recent Upjohn book, edited by Doug Besharov and Phoebe Cottingham, on the Workforce Investment Act  (WIA) (journal a...

Blog Archive

  • ►  2013 (257)
    • ►  September (18)
    • ►  August (34)
    • ►  July (58)
    • ►  June (4)
    • ►  May (16)
    • ►  April (25)
    • ►  March (35)
    • ►  February (41)
    • ►  January (26)
  • ▼  2012 (243)
    • ►  December (47)
    • ►  November (30)
    • ►  October (28)
    • ►  September (45)
    • ▼  August (73)
      • LaLonde on WIA book
      • Movie: ParaNorman
      • What Jim Tressel is up to
      • Move over Tina Fey
      • You might be a redneck if ...
      • FT on corporate mindfulness
      • Booth School reunion
      • Life after the NFL
      • The Economist on Romney
      • Assorted links
      • Tyler's sobering thought
      • Assorted links
      • This sounds really familiar ...
      • Lunch changes at the Ann Arbor public schools
      • Why UM lost to Appalachian State ....
      • Economists for Romney (or Obama)
      • Book: Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls, by Hersh...
      • Miles Kimball's blog
      • Books: Crossing the Finish Line
      • The advance of our robot overlords
      • Assorted links
      • Drezner on dissertation prospectuses
      • Movie: The Odd Life of Timothy Green
      • I pronounce a curse on ebay
      • Bieber graduates!
      • Subsidizing economics
      • Economics Moment of Zen #5
      • Supplier induced demand
      • Uncle Bonsai and Chrstine Lavin in Sterling Heights
      • The Kochtopus and Little House on the Prarie
      • Big Ten Network cuts academic programming
      • Reading the readers of 50 Shades of Grey
      • Assorted links
      • Regression discontinuity goes to the Olympics
      • KC and the Sunshine Band
      • God in silicon valley
      • Others read it so you don't have to
      • Economics Moment of Zen #4
      • Bertrand Russell's 10 Commandments
      • The Obama that I used to know
      • Economics Moment of Zen #3
      • Justin Bieber saved my life
      • Assorted links
      • News about the downtown Borders space ...
      • IZA Prize in Labor Economics to Richard Blundell
      • An excellent Dilbert
      • Movie: Total Recall (2012)
      • Marcin and the primary
      • White Market closing
      • My papers on my web page
      • Productivity advice for academics
      • Movie: James and the Giant Peach
      • Deaton v. Banerjee on RCTs
      • What foreigners think of the US
      • Assorted links
      • The Far Side on non-classical measurement error
      • What the pill wrought
      • First Husky football post for the fall
      • Mixed marriages
      • Mommy, where did 50 Shades of Grey come from?
      • Book: The Trouble with Tom, by Paul Collins
      • Book: Forged, by Bart Ehrman
      • Zombie neighborhoods
      • Movie: Your Sister's Sister
      • Pre-internet blogging
      • The Chronicle approves
      • Mechanism design, badminton, and job training
      • UM observatory
      • Fred Willard
      • More on Marcin
      • The division of book topics is limited by the exte...
      • On vague advice from faculty
      • Warsh on LIBOR
    • ►  July (20)
Powered by Blogger.

About Me

Unknown
View my complete profile