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[devil]

my father hates bush.

Shows he is is much more intelligent than the guys in the video!

actually, in all seriousness, what struck me as was that not all these people questioned were americans.

Well, now, how can you tell? Did you ask them for ID? I suspect that you are on the thin ice of racism.

[GorillaGal]

devil--did you not notice that some of them had accents? not accents from this country. like mexican.

furthermore, i bet if i went to cyprus and started asking questions about world politcs, i would be able to make a similarlu funny video. stupid people are everywhere, not just in america.
we just have more of them, but them look at how many more americans there are than cypriots.

(i gotta defend my country. not my president, but my country.)

[miltiades]

It is absurd to take seriously any suggestions that the worlds' richest nation is made up of stupid people. There are people out in the jungle , in shitholes out in Pakistan , Bangladesh , Afghanistan and many more who share the idiotic perception that Americans are Thick. Bill Gates amongst them !!

[karma]

It is absurd to take seriously any suggestions that the worlds' richest nation is made up of stupid people. There are people out in the jungle , in shitholes out in Pakistan , Bangladesh , Afghanistan and many more who share the idiotic perception that Americans are Thick. Bill Gates amongst them !!

almost 90 % of Microsoft employee are Pakistanis and Indians coming from jungles!!

[miltiades]

It is absurd to take seriously any suggestions that the worlds' richest nation is made up of stupid people. There are people out in the jungle , in shitholes out in Pakistan , Bangladesh , Afghanistan and many more who share the idiotic perception that Americans are Thick. Bill Gates amongst them !!

almost 90 % of Microsoft employee are Pakistanis and Indians coming from jungles!!

Good for them , these are obviously the enlightened lot who know where their nan bread and butter come from. I bet these employees as well as millions around the world who are indirectly making their living as a result of American ingenuity ie Coke , Pepsi , Macdonalds , Kentucky fried chicken Williams Drills , Microsoft used throughout the world , do not consider Americans to be thick.
America is the greatest nation on earth and should one day be replaced by China we shall know to our detriment that America was the greatest .

[devil]

devil--did you not notice that some of them had accents? not accents from this country. like mexican.

furthermore, i bet if i went to cyprus and started asking questions about world politcs, i would be able to make a similarlu funny video. stupid people are everywhere, not just in america.
we just have more of them, but them look at how many more americans there are than cypriots.

(i gotta defend my country. not my president, but my country.)

MANY Mexicans and other Hispanics ARE US citizens.

I agree that there are dumbasses everywhere and it would be easy to make such a clip anywhere, even in Cyprus. However, and I say this from experience, having visited the States many times, the proportion of Americans not having a clue about geography, politics, history, general culture etc. is astoundingly high, compared to most other countries (over 50) I've visited. Furthermore, this is known. The NGS did a survey, several years ago, amongst college students (i.e., the supposed intelligentsia) with a blank map of the USA and the instructions to a) name the capital city of the USA and b) put a cross where it is on the map. I forget the exact results but it was something like <50% able to name it and <20% able to put it on the map within a radius of 100 miles. I wouldn't mind betting if you gave the same questions to European students, the percentages would be much higher, even though it concerns a foreign country.

Not to mention that the Queen of England helped the Americans gain independence in 1776, from England!!!!!! She holds her age very well, n'est-ce pas?

BTW, I used to own a corporation in Switzerland. You would be astonished at the number of letters I received from the USA addressed:
Mr. xxxx
Protonique SA
CH-1032 Romanel-sur-Lausanne
Switzerland
France (or Sweden, Germany, etc. even, on one occasion, China)

This must have happened at least 50 times where Switzerland was followed by the name of another country, Sweden being the most common. I don't think you are likely to receive much mail from Europe addressed to
Ms GG
2600 Fifth Avenue
New York NY-12345
USA
Canada
(You probably would never receive it, anyway, but that's another story!)

[Damsi]

It’s not that Americans are thick. It’s because the majority don’t know and they don’t care and are not being taught what’s going on outside the US

From National Geographic: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... raphy.html

Young adults (18-24) in the United States fail to understand the world and their place in it, according to a survey-based report on geographic literacy released today (May 2006).
Take Iraq, for example. Despite nearly constant news coverage since the war there began in 2003, 63 percent of Americans aged 18 to 24 failed to correctly locate the country on a map of the Middle East. Seventy percent could not find Iran or Israel.
Nine in ten couldn't find Afghanistan on a map of Asia.
And 54 percent were unaware that Sudan is a country in Africa.
Remember the December 2004 tsunami and the widespread images of devastation in Indonesia?
Three-quarters of respondents failed to find that country on a map. And three-quarters were unaware that a majority of Indonesia's population is Muslim, making it the largest Muslim country in the world.
(See the full report.)
"Young Americans just don't seem to have much interest in the world outside of the U.S.," said David Rutherford, a specialist in geography education at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. (National Geographic News is part of the National Geographic Society.)
Only 31 per cent know the population of the US

39 per cent knew the fist series of CSI was set in las vegas

A majority of the population in Indonesia is Muslim only 25 per cent knew

Mandarin Chinese is the world's most spoken primary language. 74 per cent said English

Only 29 per cent knew the United States is the world's largest exporter of goods and services, as measured in dollar value.

Only 37% of young Americans can find Iraq on a map—though U.S. troops have been there since 2003.

6 in 10 young Americans don't speak a foreign language fluently.

20% of young Americans think Sudan is in Asia. (It's the largest country in Africa.)

48% of young Americans believe the majority population in India is Muslim.

Half of young Americans can't find New York on a map.

Americans are far from alone in the world, but from the perspective of many young Americans, we might as well be. Most young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 demonstrate a limited understanding of the world, and they place insufficient importance on the basic geographic skills that might enhance their knowledge.


From the 2002 survey
Americans ages 18 to 24 came in next to last among nine countries in the National Geographic-Roper 2002 Global Geographic Literacy Survey, which quizzed more than 3,000 young adults in Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Sweden, and the United States. Top scorers were young adults in Sweden, Germany, and Italy.

US results
nearly 30 percent of those surveyed could not find the Pacific Ocean, the world’s largest body of water;
• more than half—56 percent—were unable to locate India, home to 17 percent of people on Earth; and
• only 19 percent could name four countries that officially acknowledge having nuclear weapons.

Americans who reported that they accessed the Internet within the last 30 days scored 65 percent higher than those who did not.

[cypezokyli]

no point in showing statistics to prove american stupidity - they voted for bush , and even worse twice.
thats evidence enough of their stupidity


having mentioned that , i would even bet 5$ that George W. cannot spot iraq on the map
anyone willing to bet against me ?

[devil]

Well, I followed your link and did the test at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/roper ... on_01.html and, guess what? I got 20/20. Maybe it's because I'm not in the range of 18-24. (OK, I admit, I guessed at the answer of the immigrant increase of US population!, but the others I knew!).