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[Johnson&Johnson]

http://www.shoutfile.com/v/gSfSsCpR/Why ... Are_Stupid

[carolh]

I've seen this before - it's scary!
No wonder they are in such a mess and wanting to invade countries they know nothing about.

[dinos]

1. I believe this has been posted here before. Running out of material?
2. Anybody can edit video in such a way as to make anybody of any nationality look however they want them to look.
3. If you're going to cast aspersions on another nationality for being stupid, at least take care to not misspell the title of the thread you're doing it under.

"Why Poeple Believe Americans Are Stupid..."

[juliesewell]

I would describe them as "insular"

If it isn't in America - then there is no chance of them finding out about it. After all - London is England and Paris is Europe (by American geography standards anyway)

Don't even attempt to explain where Cyprus is! Most of them don't know where Greece or Turkey is

Watched an American reality series a while ago involving a race around the world. They were in India and were given a postcard of the Taj Mahal and told to make their way to the city it was located in. All except 1 team, went asking taxi drivers if they knew how to find this "hotel"

Scary!

[Johnson&Johnson]

So I didn't check my spelling of 'people'

Big deal. i also can't recall what and what was not posted here in the past, even by myself.

some of us work fulltime and are not sitting on the pc in their mum's spare room in their underpants posting on forums all day

I find the video to be terryfiingly accurate. Having lived/worked/travelled all over the USA, I think it is closer to the truth than many would like to believe.

the Americans who live on the upper east coast, california and pacific north-west are a little more cultured and aware of what is going on around the world. In the south, fuggedabouddit. they know nothing.

When i was working in santa cruz, americans would ask all the time if the other side of monterey bay was hawai ! you could not tell it was actually a bay due to the fog on the lowlands, and it looked like an island sitting a few dozen miles offshore.

i once told an elderly couple that it was actually Japan, and they ooohed and aaaahed and asked me where they could get a boat across!

i sh*t you not !

[dinos]

So I didn't check my spelling of 'people'

Big deal. i also can't recall what and what was not posted here in the past, even by myself.

some of us work fulltime and are not sitting on the pc in their mum's spare room in their underpants posting on forums all day

I find the video to be terryfiingly accurate. Having lived/worked/travelled all over the USA, I think it is closer to the truth than many would like to believe.

the Americans who live on the upper east coast, california and pacific north-west are a little more cultured and aware of what is going on around the world. In the south, fuggedabouddit. they know nothing.

When i was working in santa cruz, americans would ask all the time if the other side of monterey bay was hawai ! you could not tell it was actually a bay due to the fog on the lowlands, and it looked like an island sitting a few dozen miles offshore.

i once told an elderly couple that it was actually Japan, and they ooohed and aaaahed and asked me where they could get a boat across!

i sh*t you not !

Fine, you didn't see the first posting. Sh!t happens. Either way, you started casting aspersions and in the process, shot yourself in the foot. You did that to yourself. I recall a picture of an auto union strike from one of my textbooks in the 1980s. A guy was picketing with a sign that read "Japan Said Your Stupid."

Here's a separate example:


Doesn't necessarily make them idiots, but when you're dealing with the title of a thread in which you're ostensibly trying to make a point, or a picket sign, that's a pretty hefty example of carelessness and detracts from your point. Insulting me won't change that. I just wouldn't care about a misspelling in the body of your post as nobody is perfect.

It's not to say that your point is baseless. There are definitely idiots to be found in the US. And, yes, they're probably in larger concentrations (gaggles?) in the south. Some probably wouldn't even be able to find the US on a map. If you have good real world examples as the ones you stated above, please do post them as I'm always appreciative of a good laugh. Taking a doctored / edited spoof and insinuating that it's close to the truth is simply not valid.

BTW, it would've really been funny if you'd have sent those folks to that island and a group of Japanese tourists were there at the time.

And, yes, I ran through this three times for spelling errors...

[Kikapu]

Having spent 25 years in the States, you do meet all kinds. Most of the footage was shot on "Venice Beach" and "Hollywood Boulevard" where drug usage is very very common. I don't know if that had anything with the answers they gave.

I once had a group of Americans from the Mid-West ( middle America) visiting San Francisco for the first time, and upon taking them the the Coast, they were told "you are now looking at the Pacific Ocean" which one lady said "Oh, I thought it would be bigger than this". I had to put my hand over my mouth to keep my laughter noise down.

If you watch Jay Leno, a late night TV show, he often goes to Universal Studios and asks people most basic questions on current affairs, or name of politicians, or basic information on other countries, and it is very sad but true, that most people fail to answer his questions. So on one occasion he said, "look, people think we only ask stupid people these questions and that it was not fair", so he went to one of the Universities, probably UCLA, can't remember, but even the University students did not do much better. It is a systematic problem with education system of America. Most will never travel outside the borders of the USA. I believe only 10% of Americans have a Passport. Granted, an American does not need a passport to enter Canada or Mexico as well as few places in the Caribbean. Just an ID or Drivers license will do. That is about to change soon however.

The bottom line with most Americans is this. They do not care how they look, how they dress, how they talk, and how much they weigh. They simply do not care, as long as they have a job, their car, their home, and their friends, and a lot of food. They are very happy to be in America, and really do not care to visit or learn of other places or speak another language. George W Bush is your "everyday" American. He relates to a lot of people, is another reason he was voted into office, Twice. I also think most people have "cooked their brains" on drugs, in the USA. But it is still a great country to visit and live. Just stay away from their "Reality and Game Shows on the TV. I call it "Dumbing down America Shows".

[Filitsa]

Gentlemen (Kikapu in particular), without a doubt, comfort breeds complacency, which, in my amateur sociological opinion, pervades many pockets of the U.S. and is endemic to the West Coast. However, you can't claim to know America or Americans until you've given equal time to the East Coast after which you may recognize the nuances of American culture.

[souroul]

i've been in the states for 5 years now and i gotta admit that they are not really the brightest people when it comes to general education... but thats nowhere near the worst thing about them

[Johnson&Johnson]

they are some of the stupidest people i have met, that is true

but also some of the nicest and kindest and most polite

anyway i guess we cypriots are not exactly einsteins - we cant even drive a car properly and we eat what we run over in the road (usually raw)