Studies consistently show America lags behind most of the developed world in math, reading and the sciences. That means we are only ahead of countries that haven’t enough resources to actually build schools.
A casual look at American television provides a wide range of reality shows about nouveau-riche morons, drunken idiots and competitions between attractive egomaniacs scrambling for cash.
The Internet (present company excluded) has enabled millions of Americans to call each other f@g! and 100ser over topics they don’t understand
Anyone who went to school in the US knows the respect those who demonstrate higher intellect receive.
We have the best colleges in the world but most students use them to throw a 4 year drunken frat party.
The meme of Americans being loud, anti-intellectual, lazy and stupid has been around for a long time, but now it seems that quantifyable data is starting to validate it. How did a country that half a century ago put a man on Mars and defeated the Germans after they bombed Pearl Harbor become a country where the greatest minds figure out new ways to stuff tacos into pizzas?
Bullshit. You can argue we should do better, but we’re 17th out of 40 amongst industrialized countries. If Americans are dumb as shit, then Italy, France, Spain, Norway, Israel, etc are dumber. And I’m pretty sure France does in fact have the resources to build schools.
Also, for a post that says we have “quantifiable data”, to prove what your saying, you don’t actually put any quantifiable data in your post. Which seems sort of silly.
But then, if you went to school in Norway or Israel, you have an excuse.
One argument that is supported by many of the statistics is that the issue is mostly a demographic one. If you correct for demographic differences between countries, the U.S. as a whole does quite well internationally. There are some large minority groups who tend to score so low on the assessment tests, it drags down the whole average. Granted, this is a serious issue on its own and should be addressed but it is different than assuming that most American high school students use all their brain power trying to remember to breathe.
Anti-intellectualism - religious and otherwise - combined with a general hatred of doing anything for the public good. Those are the two biggest factors I think. Most Americans hate having to pay for public education at all, much less for a good public education. And teaching is hardly a respected profession; “those who can’t do, teach”.
He does realize that most of the reality shows we have in the US are ripoffs of reality shows from other countries, usually the UK.
I know some Americans tend to think people in the UK sit around sipping tea, eating crumpets and discussing Shakespeare, but quite a few would rather spend their time watching The Only Way is Essex.
I think we should edit the OP to ask “Why are Muslims dumb as shit?” because only two Islamic countries made that list (see link above) and they were close to the bottom.
