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The phone was invented by Canadians, and the car was invented in Germany and the British were the first to study electricity

Also whenever I watch CNN, they say it’s world news but they only show it if it involves america, remember the Japan earthquake, did you listen to what they said? over 12000 people are either missing or dead, and among them were 43 americans or something. No offense to the dead but really???? Out of the 12000 only 43 matter to the us, recently on new years, there was a 6.8 after shock in Japan and all CNN was showing was a 3.9 earthquake in Ohio and how worried they were, you ******* serious??? Another thing about the news, when Michael Jackson died every single news network covered that for a few days, CNN covered it for 3 weeks nonstop, while I like Michael Jackson, 3 weeks is a bit too much. And American courts are sometimes odd, OJ simpson was freed because a fucking glove was tight, again, really??????? Casey Anthony was freed despite all the evidence against her, and yet again, really?????????

I would say about 40% of Americans are idiots, most of those idiots are a$$holes, not all Americans are bad, but I’ve known some and they all seem a bit too patriotic and are quick to defend their country when I insult it. For example ‘why do Americans think they are the world?’ my friends would reply, HEY Americans are most of the world because they are they most powerful.
……….? Americans are also racist and stereotypical and have started the Iraq war because they want oil, bush said sad dam Hussein was building WMDs, so they invaded and found nothing, now there picking on iran doing the same thing ‘Iran is building nukes!!!!!!!! He the hell would they no that, sure there enriching uranium but that could just be for power plants. Some of them say e are Americans, and then some crap after that, that I can’t remember, but do they know that theres no such thing as a true Americans? All americans are the descendants of mixed Europeans 400 years ago. I admit my info is a little biased but opinions by definition are biased. Btw a couple of years ago there was a survey which fund out that 7 out of 10 Americans don’t know where Iraq is

The real problem is that we Americans (people that live in the US) are not stupidity, but rather something more basic. Many follow without complete knowledge. We don’t know how the actions of one decision effect the rest of the World. Yet many of us argue points as if we were all knowing. As one who has studied law, tax, economics…I am proud of the decisions that our leaders have made. We as a republic are lucky to not have a dictator slash power hungry nut as a ruler. Or at least, our founding fathers were smarter enough to develop a government that would not allow a nut to stay in office. However, as well as that seems to have worked for the executive branch, I am sad to say that we let our legislative branch
gives so much leeway to this point. In other words, why are there so many legislative politicians that have made a career out of being a senator or congress person? Even though the judicial branch is really no better, I believe that the argument for experience places a much bigger role in the judicial branch, and therefore longer terms seems more acceptable. At any rate, I really wish we, US Americans, could change how the election system works. I find it terrible that our leaders twist, manipulate, and outright lie to us in their process to become an elected official. Tactics that are used for arguments between election candidates in all branches, specifically, the legislative and executive branch should not allow deception.

Stupidity and Ignorance are two different things, the former is largely an innate characteristic the latter, ignorance, is simply a lack of knowledge. Addressing the former, stupidity, or for purposes of simplicity IQ is measured cross-culturally and cross-racially. Because America is a heterogeneous county the average or mean IQ is lower than many European and Asian countries because 12 to 13 percent of the country’s population has an average (mean) IQ of 84. Naturally when this lower IQ population is factored in it depresses the overall average. The only arguments in opposition are personal attacks, off subject emotional tirades or the ever so tedious Marxian-Sociological mumbo jumbo.

Where is Europe? = Baja Arctic Circle.

Peace.

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LMAO check those facts as you’ve just proved this point.

Do you know where Europe is anyway?

I don’t think Americans are stupid, I think that the U.S. Government is so corrupted, that people actually aren’t voting for their people, I think its all controlled.

If they are willing to pass laws and go to war against the will of the people, what makes you think they are actually considering your votes when they tally up?

It’s not that Americans are stupid, they are like the ignorant masses of the world generally, as high human culture has, as a result of the class system, always been reserved for the upper classes. It is that America has certain ideals and represents something for humanity generally next to which the massive failure to create an intelligent average citizen is especially glaring.

The National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) and the rates of Atheism are the best empirical evidence of the underlying facts. Less than 18% of the White population has complete literacy as determined by the ability to process complex prose such as would be encountered in daily life. The figure varies in different groups and drops to 2% for blacks.

There are strong cultural trends in the formation of American culture from the lower classes of Europe and elsewhere, but essentially it is the bedrock failure of American culture to produce a society that values intellect and learning. A failure which, fortunately for Man, is not shared by other cultures generally.

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Wow, who knew Rupert Murdoch was a liberal?
Grey, unless you have years of contact with foreigners *on their own turf, not yours*, and better yet, can speak their language, you have no hope of being able to understand where they’re coming from.  Not really.  It doesn’t count if you just go over on a nice tour and have one beer with a token local.  It doesn’t count if you’re living on a military base or if you’re buffered by a group of your own countrymen.  It doesn’t count if you still hold on to all the assumptions you don’t even KNOW you have, until you get them handed to you gutted on a platter.
Grey, if you think you can figure out the whole world just on the power of “your own critical thinking,” that explains what’s wrong with it, right there.  It’s exactly what’s wrong with Bush and Cheney.  The assumption that there’s nothing outside your own experience that could matter is what gets us in trouble in places like Iraq.

I really like how you explain this. You are very good at being clear and truthful. Thank you.