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style="display:none">My one question is whether or not authentic cultural garb was procured for these taste-testers. I hate to burst your bubble but Bucharest, Romania, is a proper city with a major university. I have a friend who has her Masters in genetics and her Ph.D. in immunology. She almost never dresses in these Romanian costumes. [...]</span></a></div><p></p><div
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Savages">Noble Savage</a> is so eighteenth-century. And this sort of untoward behavior is the furthest thing from <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noblesse_Oblige">Noblesse Oblige</a>. They are neither being noble nor are they honoring any sort of moral obligation.</p><p>So, tell me, are those traditional cultural costumes authentic or monkey suits? Was this the decision of the bonehead producer, the director, or did this crisp, minty fresh garb just happen to be what these folks were wearing? Were they just aching to be used there in the back of everyones&#8217; closet? Or, was this the regalia these test subject were wearing when and where they were discovered? I really want to know!</p><p>The most deplorable part of this documentary is the critique and un-self-aware commentary of the way these test subjects took to the burger, along the lines of, &#8220;these people are so authentic because they don&#8217;t even know how to eat a burger to say nothing of a sandwich.&#8221;</p><p>I am actually deeply appalled and embarrassed to be an American at just about now.</p><p>Egad!</p><script type="text/javascript">(function() {var s = document.createElement('SCRIPT'), s1 = document.getElementsByTagName('SCRIPT')[0];s.type = 'text/javascript';s.async = true;s.src = 'http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js';s1.parentNode.insertBefore(s, s1);})();</script><a
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