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Bugmeat posted...

But this doesn't proof bigotry in any way. Just uninformed people who responding to a trick question. The people responding aren't saying no because of the word Arabic. They're saying no because they think it's a different set of numerals. An additional set to what we already have.

Pretty much. This doesn't prove that 56% of Americans are racist, it proves that (at least) 56% of Americans are too stupid to ask for clarification on a concept they don't understand before providing their opinion on it. If the question were fishing for racism, the question should have been more along the lines of "Recent polls suggest that over 97% of American schools are teaching children how to read Arabic numerals. Do you think this is a problem?", but even then you're still going to get people who presume "Arabic numerals" is referring to an additional number system and object on that basis.