Americans Think The US is the Best Because......

Allahu Akbar !

Till next time.

 

One can play that video for any country. They are stupids in every country...maybe more in the Philippines though... (I'm with Rob on this one

Plus, those videos don't show all the others answering correctly ans saying to the commentator HE got that wrong...

 

Gog and Magog have finally been able to transform the whole nation into a hurdle of sheep. The only thing they trust is the media. Media never tell a lie. Its all good! Everything is going fi9. Keep watching!

Actually they want the whole world to be like Americans. The New World Order, not the law of a Jungle!

 

You are probably an American, so you don't know because your TV does not tell you that.

 

Well said Robjones. Now I wonder if he thinks America is so "stupid" then why did he move there?

If it was for economic reasons, he could have went to many other wealthy places like Europe, Canada, Australia, etc.

One issue here is that while he has quoted some things that could be true in certain cases, any form of logical discussion about them has been rendered impossible by the fact that he is obviously biased and will probably just keep calling people "stupid" over and over.

 

This video is hilarious.

 

You are probably a Yemenite, stealing internet connection from the US Embassy thanks to the cantenna Americans are sending to Yemen via Ebay...

 

Did CNN tell you that?

 

It could have been Fox Noise, these guys need to shut up.

 

Maybe we are stupid. Would any of those other countries actually accepted him?

 

I think so.

 

Untrue. Completely untrue.

 

Part 7

Definitions

Five defining characteristics of American stupidity, it seems, are readily apparent. First, is sheer ignorance: Ignorance of critical facts about important events in the news, and ignorance of how the government functions and who's in charge. Second, is negligence: The disinclination to seek reliable sources of information about important news events. Third, is wooden-headedness, as the historian Barbara Tuchman defined it: The inclination to believe what Americans want to believe regardless of the facts. Fourth, is shortsightedness: The support of public policies that are mutually contradictory, or contrary to the country's long-term interests. Fifth, and finally, is a broad category called bone-headedness, for want of a better name: The susceptibility to meaningless phrases, stereotypes, irrational biases, and simplistic diagnoses and solutions that play on our hopes and fears.

American Ignorance

Taking up the first of our definitions of stupidity, how ignorant are Americans? Ask the political scientists and you will be told that there is damning, hard evidence pointing incontrovertibly to the conclusion that millions are embarrassingly ill-informed and that they do not care that they are. There is enough evidence that one could almost conclude -- though admittedly this is a stretch -- that they are living in an Age of Ignorance.

Surprised? Guess is most people would be. The general impression seems to be that they are living in an age in which people are particularly knowledgeable.

Why are Americans so deluded? The error can be traced to mistaking unprecedented access to information with the actual consumption of it. Access is indeed phenomenal. George Washington had to wait two weeks to discover that he had been elected president of the United States. That's how long it took for the news to travel from New York, where the Electoral College votes were counted, to reach him at home in Mount Vernon, Virginia. Americans living in the interior regions had to wait even longer, some up to two months. Now we can watch developments as they occur halfway around the world in real time. It is little wonder then that students boast of their knowledge. Unlike their parents, who were forced to rely mainly on newspapers and the network news shows to find out what was happening in the world, they can flip on CNN and Fox or consult the Internet.

 

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And yet you moved here voluntarily to clean their floors.... Kinda ironic isn't it Jude?

 

Comic!

"How do we know all Americans are stereotypically stupid? Because they use stereotypes!"

The most ironic and humorous part about it is, you don't understand the irony in your own post!

 

I totally agree.

Much more fun to sit in front of the t.v. with some beer, let the news tell you everything you need to know.

Obamanation is a perfect example.

Bone-headedness I like that terminology, it's "hard headed" on a next level.

 

... I don't see the point in this really. I ain't from the US so this is an outside opinion (i'm from the UK). Anyone can stereotype any country... For example all the english do all day is eat scones and drink tea (So I keep getting told). Anyone who will go along and see stereotype's to be true has to be stupid and ofcoarse have no clue about the world outside their own country.

Just my opinion...

 

The Irony of American Ignorance

Part 8

But in fact only a small percentage of people take advantage of the great new resources at hand. In 2005, the Pew Research Center surveyed the news habits of some 3,000 Americans age 18 and older. The researchers found that 59% on a regular basis get at least some news from local TV, 47% from national TV news shows, and just 23% from the Internet. Not including who watch the daily soaps and Jerry Springer.

Anecdotal evidence suggested for years that Americans were not particularly well-informed. As foreign visitors long ago observed, Americans are vastly inferior in their knowledge of world geography compared with Europeans. (The old joke is that "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.") But it was never clear until the postwar period how ignorant Americans are. For it was only then that social scientists began measuring in a systematic manner what Americans actually know. The results were devastating.

The most comprehensive surveys, the National Election Studies (NES), were carried out by the University of Michigan beginning in the late 1940s. What these studies showed was that Americans fall into three categories with regard to their political knowledge. A tiny percentage know a lot about politics, up to 50%-60% know enough to answer very simple questions, and the rest know next to nothing.

Contrary to expectations, by many measures the surveys showed the level of ignorance remaining constant over time. In the 1990s, political scientists Michael X. Delli Carpini and Scott Keeter concluded that there was statistically little difference between the knowledge of the parents of the Silent Generation of the 1950s, the parents of the Baby Boomers of the 1960s, and American parents today. (By some measures, Americans are dumber today than their parents of a generation ago.)

Some of the numbers are hard to fathom in a country in which for at least a century all children have been required by law to attend grade school or be home-schooled. Even if people do not closely follow the news, one would expect them to be able to answer basic civics questions, but only a small minority can.

In 1986, only 30% knew that Roe v. Wade was the Supreme Court decision that ruled abortion legal more than a decade earlier. In 1991, Americans were asked how long the term of a United States senator is. Just 25% correctly answered six years. How many senators are there? A poll a few years ago found that only 20% know that there are 100 senators, though the number has remained constant for the last half century (and is easy to remember). Encouragingly, today the number of Americans who can correctly identify and name the three branches of government is up to 40%. Wooooot !

Polls over the past three decades measuring Americans' knowledge of history show similarly dismal results. What happened in 1066? Just 10% know it is the date of the Norman Conquest. Who said the "world must be made safe for democracy"? Just 14% know it was Woodrow Wilson. Which country dropped the nuclear bomb? Only 49% know it was their own country. Who was America's greatest president? According to a Gallup poll in 2005, a majority answer that it was a president from the last half century: 20% said Reagan, 15% Bill Clinton, 12% John Kennedy, 5% George W. Bush. Only 14% picked Lincoln and only 5%, Washington.

And the worst president? For years Americans would include in the list Herbert Hoover. But no more. Most today do not know who Herbert Hoover was, according to the University of Pennsylvania's National Annenberg Election Survey in 2004. Just 43% could correctly identify him.

The only history questions a majority of Americans can answer correctly are the most basic ones. What happened at Pearl Harbor? A great majority know: 84%. What was the Holocaust? Nearly 70% know. (Thirty percent don't?) But it comes as something of a shock that, in 1983, just 81% knew who Lee Harvey Oswald was and that, in 1985, only 81% could identify Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

This is great stuff Jude, but if you post all of it nobody's gonna buy the book at least til it hits paperback.

On the bright side I can see it becoming a hilarious musical. "Rants of a Racist Janitor"... coming soon to a theater near you!"