There are more Americans in public view than any other nation. Face it, there are 300 million of them compared to (say) the Netherland's 17 million and they're a lot more interesting. Of course they're going to pop up more, especially given the media's attention to idiots and screwups.

Also, what I think Nate may have forgotten to mention, the United States of America has a lot more people compared to the most of the other countries. Just of the top of my head the only places I can think of that might have a larger population (Not researching anything, mind you) are Africa, China, Russia, Mexico, and maybe Australia. So in proportion it would seem right that the United States of America has more idiots than the other nations.

Um.. Nate didn't fail to mention that. If you read his post again, you will find that he says that America does have more people in it...

Video was still good for a watch though.

Well, I don't read things clearly when I'm sick.



That's right, I'm sick again.
Oh well, I'm getting better. Continue with the thread.

Thanks for the permission.

George W. Bush. Enough said. :P

Every nation has their smart, dumb, and average people. It's just America tends to show off its dumbest more than others.

You can say it, nate. We ARE more interesting than Americans. I mean, legal drinking age = 16? Nuff said :P.

Every country has dumb people and smart people, America's imbeciles just get more media attention (most likely due to the fact that the US President is one of said imbeciles). That video was a good laugh, although it can't be taken as a serious study as they most likely cut out any intelligent answers. Having said that I find it hard to belive that some people are really that stupid. It's astounding.

And Tony Blair? Neither are enough to pass judgement young one. :blush:

See, why cant I see "Blacks are STUPID!" and not get away with it when this one has sparked hardly any insult? Racism is weird as lol.

*doesn't correct Mojo's misunderstanding*

Having a speech disorder does not make someone stupid.

Source? :) Even if America invented everything ever conceived (which I don't think they have) that doesn't logically extend to it being either a stupid or intelligent country. Just that a few Americans were damned clever, once upon a time.

Yes it does.

That is as ignorant as saying that having autism or being deaf makes somebody stupid. Mental retardation and speech disorders are seperate things.

I agree. Just because someone can't speak properly, or has some type of mental disorder doesn't automatically make them an ignorant individual. They can still think logically and even be remarkably intelligent despite what problems they may have.

Hang on, we are talking about GWB aren't we? Because I really don't think that can be blamed on a mere speech disorder.

Everywhere I've been in Texas, absolutly no one says "nuculer" instead of nuclear.......

George Bush does not have a speech disorder. George Bush is just plain dumb. I have a book of stupid things he's said- they aren't through a speech problem, they're through not knowing what he's talking about. For goodness sake, the guy was once interviewed about either his brother or cousin (I forget which) and he didn't know which state they were governor of. That's idiocy that, not speech problems.

Is he really that stupid? Dang, I'm scared.

Well Havoc, there are many idiots in america.
But in netherlands or "Holland" (you know ;)) are idiots, too.
And I don't want to talk about germany.

Mankind lost the general education.

Nah, we're still working towards that. And since we're leaps and bounds ahead of where we were even a few decades ago, I don't think we're doing too bad a job. It's a lot easier to point out everything that's wrong about something, than everything that's been done to alleviate the problem.

theres stupid people everyone. they pollute a majority of population.

id have to say america is easilly the most ignorant nation in the world. why? because were forcefed all this crap about how much better we are than everyone else from the second we enter grade school, its hard to actually know anything about the world around us without teaching ourselves.

of course, thats not the only problem. i could go on a four hour long rant about how retarded society is, but id rather not

Of course there's ignorant individuals left and right, but America certainly isn't the dumbest of all. What's more, most of America's population immigrated from other places, so going by your logic, that would be saying that every other country is as stupid, if not more stupid than America :p.

Also, I don't know about you, but I certainly was never taught that I was better than everyone else around me, let alone every other country out there. That wouldn't be right, as it would imply that the country my family is oringinally from, Poland, is inferior to America, as well as any other country a certain person, or their family originated from.

well, i dont know what the schools you came from are like, but in every school ive been to (three elementary, two middle, one highschool), the teachers have always gone into long drawn out explanations of why every other country is terrible and america is so much better, even though most of them have never left the state they were born in. its our education system. everywhere i look, its filled with morons who have no right teaching our youth. i work in schools around the state, so i see it every day..

i think its more of a southern thing, really.. im from florida, and everyone around here's got somewhat of a "im better than you kuz my ancestors enslaved black people" kind of attitude. nobody around here really pays attention to other countries, they just assume everyone else is bad and we should nuke all of them. its part of the reason why i hate everyone around here, and stick to my video games.

Oooh, well every school I've been to has been pretty fair in considering other country's views on certain events in history. They've never said a country was horrible, or went as far to suggest that we're superior to the lot of them. I mean, I could understand if they said that a certain country wasn't the best place to live during a certain portion of history or somethling like that, but making such general statements about certain countries are definitely uncalled for.

hrm.. it must be a southern thing then.. sometime last year, i mentioned wanting to move to another country, to a few of my teachers, and they all gave me speaches on why america is the best country to live in. they act like americas the only country that isnt communist..

but thats how things have been my entire life.. and i just never questioned it untill a few years ago when i started actually talking to people from other countries via the internet and researching things on my own..

It probably is just a southern thing. I haven't ever heard of other states saying that all other countries are communists until you mentioned it :p.

well, i dont mean that literally.. but you get what im saying right? they act like america is completely different than every other one, and america > all others

snuzi, maybe it isn't like it where you are, but what Satch is saying certainly sounds like other things I've heard. Even on TV or movies you see patriotism in the form of 'America, the greatest country in the world'.
How can you have a 'greatest country'? That just doesn't make sense.

I have seen those types of things in movies as well as television, but not once have I been taught to look down upon other countries in school. Also, patriotism isn't saying every other country is inferior to yours, it's being proud to be from a certain country. It doesn't require you to put down every other country out there in the process.

And I also don't understand how there could ever be a "greatest country". How could anyone in their right mind judge that? It's moronic.

From what I've heard, it's actually the opposite. Namely a politically correct, dhimmi, self hating, multi culti view of history is the one taught in America's schools, or at least, in most of it's universities.