Thread: Stupid Americans

This post is not an attack at a certain class of people. I am not Trying to be better than anybody in anyway.

Why is this happening? Why is a whole class of people being dumbed down? Why can't people critically think let alone find thier own country on the map?

The Media
The Government
Its that simple.

The blame of "America's Stupidity" doesn't fall on Americans themselves. They're people like any other person in this world. There is nothing physical keeping an American from being as smart as any other person, be them: Canadian, German, English, Fren-- Anyway...

It all has to do with how the country is run. With such a focus on Media, Entertainment, and keeping the general populous busy enough to generally keep their noses out of what the government is doing, you get a large, lazy, dumb populous.

Not to mention probability is a huge factor as well. With so many people, you have a bigger chance of getting dumb people, as well as smart people. Which is why so many of both have come out of America.

Again, the American people can't really be blamed. Nor is this every case. We have many Americans, smart Americans, on this board.

But once gain, you can't expect a smart population when you're leadership is only made so out of morbid curiosity.

Agree with everything ExoByte said.

We also have something called "No Child Left Behind" which cuts funding to schools if their students don't perform well on tests. Obviously that's ass backwards, but we've got no way to fix it right now.

I do agree that America has a failing education system. Though I am really getting sick of all this hate. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_mkw...eature=related Look at this video... The maker is just showing how any video can be made to make a country look stupid. The real ignorance comes out of the people who dont try to understand another point of view and just mindlessly hate something because of what the media tells them to hate.

Originally Posted by Nazzul

I do agree that America has a failing education system. Though I am really getting sick of all this hate. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_mkw...eature=related Look at this video... The maker is just showing how any video can be made to make a country look stupid. The real ignorance comes out of the people who dont try to understand another point of view and just mindlessly hate something because of what the media tells them to hate.

Nazull i did post more than the one video of guys interviewing americans. There's also the education system. And like i said I'm not posting this to feel superior over anyone. I am concerned that the most powerfull nation in the world can't educate itself properly, or critically think. I think if people were smarter and had the right opportunities, we'd have less arrogance, and wars based on BS.

You want a war based on BS? Take India and Pakistan.

I don't think America is anywhere near alone in these sorts of things. There are some really serious issues in the States though that go far beyond dumb people in the streets.. health care, for instance.

I think dumb people are a serious issue. If people weren't so poorly educated and self aware, they wouldn't have let federal governments ruin the health care system. What about the issue of Private banks making the US currency?

The government doesn't print the money, Private Banks do. Yet most people still pay income tax because they don't understand how corrupt the monetary system is. Stipidity, Ignorance, and laziness are the very things that keep humankind in the stone age.