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Jedi census phenomenon



The Jedi census phenomenon was a grassroots movement in 2001 for citizens in a few English-speaking countries to record their religion as "Jedi" or "Jedi Knight" (after the fictitious religious order of Force-attuned knights in the Star Wars films) on the national census. Australian Star Wars Appreciation Society president Chris Brennan reported to The New Zealand Herald that while a minority were "true hard-core people that would believe the Jedi religion carte blanche", the majority of self-reported Jedi "either did so for a laugh or to poke boraxThe phrase "to poke borax at", also "to poke borack at", is an Australasian idiom of declining usage meaning "to ridicule".



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