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Why People Believe Americans Are Stupid

These people are just normal people. The problem of the rest of the world with the "American" is that US citizens are supposed to be so "special" and "above the rest" while in fact they are just people that can be as ignorant and prejudiced like those anywhere in the world, but enjoying the privileges of a political, social and economical system set up by others in other times, and which is maintained by some whom they may aristocratically regard as inferior because they are not as "people" as them: that is, because they have more money or they received a particular education.

They think they are the best just like any people in the world, but they have an actual general predominance that makes the rest of the world think US citizens are particularly stupid out of either sheer envy and despite or merely their own share of the general ignorance of "people".

So, American people are just people... with particular degrees of twangs.
 
THere's a show in Canada called "Talking to Americans" where they go down and ask Americans simple questions to show how ignorant the average person down here really is.

they're not "stupid" exactly.. just completely unaware about the world. It's quite sad how they just don't know anything about anything that isn't directly under their noses.

NOW.. just in the defense of Americans...


That video was shot on Venice Beach here in LA, and most of the people they interviewed were drug dealers, crack heads and tourists from Texas.

I'll assure you that if you went about 10 miles north east to West Hollywood or over to Pasadena you'd get a bunch of people who were a bit more clued in.
 
Even accounting for the fact that the people making the video would've obviously screened out those who knew the answers to those questions or who at any rate, didn't come across quite so stupidly, it's still quite scary!

I moved to New York from India when I was 18 and was absolutely dumbfounded when I came across people who didn't know where India was...one lovely college girl thought UK was the capital of London...In a Black Studies class I took (at college, mind you, not junior high!) about half the class raised their hands when the professor asked them if they'd heard of the country Africa!!

Yes, it's obvious that all Americans aren't as clueless but it's also painfully obvious that the American education system and press is so fetishly self-involved that they just don't bother finding out about people other than themselves.
 
DavidNY said:
Even accounting for the fact that the people making the video would've obviously screened out those who knew the answers to those questions or who at any rate, didn't come across quite so stupidly, it's still quite scary!

I moved to New York from India when I was 18 and was absolutely dumbfounded when I came across people who didn't know where India was...one lovely college girl thought UK was the capital of London...In a Black Studies class I took (at college, mind you, not junior high!) about half the class raised their hands when the professor asked them if they'd heard of the country Africa!!

Yes, it's obvious that all Americans aren't as clueless but it's also painfully obvious that the American education system and press is so fetishly self-involved that they just don't bother finding out about people other than themselves.
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There´s simply something wrong with the current conception of education: Western institutions are supposed to foster free thinking and development of ideas, that is, research and science while in fact they simply evangelize with some vague general and void principles like democracy or freedom that replaced the old vague, general and void ones like God or piety.
 
kimihiko said:
It's really scares me that there are so many people who are woeful lack of knowledge and they don't have any problems...

I don't think they are stupid...well I think American tended little stupiter than other country's people not all of them......but most of them.

Good thing is most of these people know that they are stupit compare to other country' people(In this case I'm not talking about developing country's people)

If they don't even know that they are ignorance...I hate to say this but that explain why the President of the United States is still him[-X

Oh, I'm from Japan and lived in America for few years and I found lots of really smart people too..|
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Like someone said before, being intelligent doesn´t equate with knowing this or that. In other times, you were respected only when you had a certain breeding, which meant being rightly responsive to certain social stimuli; today that "breeding" is being able to give the right answers to certain questions, while remaining as ignorant and comfortably installed in your position of (supposedly) enlightened middle class status as in other times they were by being aristocrats: back then, if you couldn´t compose a sonnet you were a stupid churl, today you are a stupid redneck if you can´t tell the difference between a country and a continent.
 
Cum_Slave said:
Not knowing how many sides a triangle has, and thinking that australia is north korea / Iran / whatever makes you less intelligent then a mule.
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Some may say that that statement doesn´t show much intelligence either.
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The film is biased:

The first segment was shot on Hollywood Blvd in LA and is known for it's sleaze and homeless population. Why not go to UCLA in West Wood and ask....there are a lot of cute boys walking around..yum?
The second segment is filmed in Stonerville aka Venice Beach in LA.....reason to go is to ogle the muscle at Muscle Beach....duh.
The third segment was shot in Texas. .....why not film at Boston Common or Times Square, NYC.

I live in Los Angeles and the first thing I noticed when I moved here was the lack of interest in the rest of the country and the rest of the world. It's like nothing important exists outside of Southern California.

The best part of the clip was the John Howard part.....no one knew what he looked like..

Jay Leno the "Tonight Show" host does a average joe on the street segment and it is way funnier..and also does a quiz show segment called "Jaywalking Allstars" ...Jay is much funnier.
 
It's interesting....

clips like this are edited to obviously show the worst of the worst, and the comedic effects are always great.

However, I grew up thinking that international assumptions about Americans were false for the most part, and that people just needed to come see for themselves what it was like here.

Then I moved to Dublin (that's in Ireland! lol) for 5 months, and the scariest realization of all when I figured out that, wow, for the most part, Americans really are the embodiment of their international stereotypes.

We are loud when it is inappropriate, rude, inconsiderate of other cultures and customs, stubborn, ill informed, terribly dependant on our ways, and worst of all, we get defensive when this is pointed out and don't believe it.

Of course, not everyone is like this, sometimes people just blend in to the countryside, but obviously that's not who gets noticed for being a complete American Ass.
 
alderfer said:
May I suggest getting to know the real America - and it isn't in ANY of the large cities. Go to Sterling Colorado or soiux falls south dakota or Lund texas or Houlton Maine or.....you will never know america hanging around in new york or los angeles... btw most americans don't live in those cities even tho they are large - still over 150 million smaller town americans and that's over - % of the entire population.
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I can't really agree with you there.

I'd venture a guess that most of the people in that clip ARE from small towns, considering it was shot in an area that's pretty much 100% tourists. Seldom do people from LA go to Venice Beach Boardwalk.

I grew up in a small town in Canada, which although isn't American, was still chock-full of the kind of people you'd find in that video.. totally ignorant and almost proud of it.
 
Well, as I said I met a lot of bright people in the U.S.A when I was there, but to tell u the truth, I have also been asked the silliest questions there too. When I was working at the Denver Broncos stadium there was this one dude that asked me "Are those elevator going down?". I was thinking to myself "Well, no, they only go up, take the stairs" LOL.

And when I was working for Six Flags there was this ride called "The Tower Of Doom" which had to close everytime there was high winds. I was working in the food service and my stand was next to this ride. So whenever the ride closed due to high wind people would come to me asking "When will the wind stop?" LOL... I've never been asked such silly questions at any other place.

Of course, that means nothing, I'm just sharing...
 
This "ignorance" is also due to the education system and more to the information system. In the US you only get news through the filter of "US" channels or news agencies. There never is a counterpart. Or a look at what the world thinks. In US news you hardly ever see a word of what is happening in the world, being the press or the TV. And if there is a mention it is only from an "US" point of view.

There is a definite contempt for the rest of the world considered inferior. You just have to see US citizen abroad , asking " how much is that in real money " ! Though the dollar isn't what it was, and by far.

I don't think the average US citizen is interested to know what the rest of the world think of him nor of the US. There is no conscience of belonging to a "world".

Though the population of the US is a mere 5% of the total population of the world.

For most of them, the world ends at the end of their county.


......And I have a lot of american friends, educated and worldwise, but they don't seem to form the majority of the population.


Lots of people are like that over the world, but they don't belong to "the most powerful nation on earth", which by force, meddles in the affairs of everyone and believe to detain the only truth. And therefore don't bear the same responsability.
 
I don't think Americans are stupid, but rather that many of them are clueless about other cultures.
 
Well - this is from "CNNN" which is a "spoof" show anyway - so you can be sure they would have selected the silliest answers imaginable and milked the thing for laughs.

As far as the "Name a country beginning with U" - I'm sure a a great many of the U.S. population would instinctively think "America" rather than "United States of" - so it is, to some degree a "semi trick" question. (Tho', knowing what I was watching, my first thought was U.S.A. and my second was Uruguay).

That said - I do think the Amercan education system, and in particular, the American media tends to concentrate on U.S. issues to the detriment of international history/events/understanding - and this is something that was obviously expoited in this.

But hey - we all have our share of hicks & idiots. I'm sure something similar could easily have been done in an Australian locale where there are a high proportion of drongos, or in the UK in an area where people who have had a higher education tend NOT to collect.
 
You could make that same video in any country in the world. Yes, americans are stupid. So are australians. So are canadians, and british, and russians, and chinese, and mexicans, etc, etc, etc.

People, as a species, are stupid.
 
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