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Gilligan's Island vs. the Taliban
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And then there's Gilligan, the essence of the naïve, childish American - as Americans are so often described, ad nauseum, abroad. But bumbling, unsophisticated Gilligan has a way of ruining the plans of every Soviet cosmonaut or Third World dictator who drops by. "Representing the average citizen at his most ordinary," Cantor writes, "Gilligan presides over a kind of democratic utopia on the island and is repeatedly called upon to act as its savior."
What's more, he always prevails.
Why do they hate us? It just may be because of "Gilligan's Island."
Yes, this is sort of a silly answer. But it's still smarter than the question.
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