Faking Cultural Literacy

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on how society fails to be informed, how we are wrapped up in social media, and how we feel pressured to be know it all's.
Mr. Greenfield points out how society fails when it comes to being informed. We take the easy way out and skim information based on a topic or event. Instead of reading a book or finding factual information, we form an opinion on a topic we know not very much about. We wait for an attention grabbing headline to appear and then fake knowledge in regards to that headline. "According to a recent survey by the American Press Institute, nearly six in 10 Americans acknowledge that they do nothing more than read news headlines -- and I know this only because I skimmed a Washington Post headline about the survey." (Greenfield) This is proof that in reality most of us are guilty of this even Mr. Greenfield himself. Most people don't take the time to read the entire article start to finish instead we skim and then we share the information at hand. Society is ...

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