I recently received a Ghana cookbook. It was written by a woman from Ghana and her husband, a word traveling Information Technology guy. Apparently he didn't know the difference, because this book has more typos per page than any other book I have ever seen. Every one is spelled correctly - it's just not the right word.
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."