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I was doing some research for a project here is what i came up with.

According to Department of Education National Adult Literacy Survey, There are fourty four million Americans who can not read and write above a fourth grade level- in other words, who are functional illiterates.

Majority of its citizens can not locate Kosovo (or any other country it has bombed) on the map. 65% of Americans adult between the age of 18 and 25 could not find the United Kingdom on the map. All that kissing American asses by Mr Blair, and American do not even know where the hell Mr Blairs lips were!

Should a people this ignorant be running the world? How did they get in charge at the first place? According to INS, 92% of Americans dont even own a passport. I guess they dont have to, 10,000 miles away from home, you are still in your home turf, speaking the same damn languages! Only a handful of them know any language other than English (and they barely speak that one!)

Americans have quite a proud tradition of being represented by ignorant high-ranking officials. In 1956 President Dwight D. Eisenhower's nominee as ambassador to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) was unable to identify either the country's prime minister or its capital during his senate confirmation hearing.

In 1982, President Ronald Regan's nominee for deputy secretary of state, William Clark, admitted to a wide ranging lack of knowledge about foreign affairs at his confirmation hearing.
Source: St. Petersburgh Times, july 21, 1989.

Recently a group of 556 seniors from fifty five prestigious American universities (e,g, Harvard, Yale and Stanford) were given a multi choice test consisting of questions that were described as 'high school level' Thirty four questions were asked. These top students could only answer 53% of them correctly. and only one student got them all right.

A whopping 40 percent of these students didnt know when the American Civil war took place. The two questions the college seniors scored highest were 1. Who is snoop- dog (98% got them right) 2. Who are Bevis and Butt-head? (99% got them right)

Source: Pittsburgh post-gazette sept 03, 2000 and New York Times April 8, 2001



Yale or Harvard, Princeton or Dartmouth and Berkeley, get a degree from one of this university and you are set for life, 70% of those students at these fine schools had never heard of Voting Rights Act or President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society Initiatives.

Here is the kicker!
163 New York City school opened in 2000-2001 school without a principal! you heard right, school, with no one in charge!! Apparently the mayor and the school board are experimenting woth 'chaos theory'!

Source: New York Times May 19, 2001. reports about teacher shortage.



In New York City almost 15% of the eleven hundred public Schools are without a full time custodians, forcing teachers to mop their own floors and students to do without toilet paper.
Source: New York Times May 28, 2001 reports by Shaila Dewan title : 'Janitorial Rules Leave Teachers Holding a Mop'

Thirty eight states have death penalty out of fifty states. United States are one of the few countries in the world that puts to death both the mentally retarded and juvenile offenders. The United States is among only six countries that impose the death penalty on juveniles. The others five are Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

The United States is also the only country besides Somalia that has not signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

No Other industrialized nation executes its children.
 

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I thought going to Iraq was proof enough of American stupidity/regressive social polices? :confused:
 

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HA! and they call themselves the lucky country!....

also in a recent study: more than 150,000 ppl from each of the 50 states were tested for their IQ.....average IQ of each state were taken and placed in order from highest to lowest. Then they showed which state had the majority of voters for KERRY and BUSH....All the states that had the majority of votes for BUSH were on the bottom of the IQ list and all the states that had the majority of votes for KERRY were on the TOP of the IQ list...hahahahaha....now that is funny :uhuh:
 

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thaoroxy2001 said:
HA! and they call themselves the lucky country!....

also in a recent study: more than 150,000 ppl from each of the 50 states were tested for their IQ.....average IQ of each state were taken and placed in order from highest to lowest. Then they showed which state had the majority of voters for KERRY and BUSH....All the states that had the majority of votes for BUSH were on the bottom of the IQ list and all the states that had the majority of votes for KERRY were on the TOP of the IQ list...hahahahaha....now that is funny :uhuh:
Haha I heard about that IQ thing on the glass house.

However, even though lots of Americans may be stupid and ignorant, the US has some of the most prestigious universities in the world.
 

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Come on, it's not really that surprising is it? If Bush's supporters aren't as 'intellectual' as Kerry's, but ARE the majority, doesn't it make political sense for Bush to portray himself as one of them, assuming he has a choice in how he appears that is :p

I am in no way supportive of most of their actions, especially regarding the death penalty and the lack of support of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, but they are the super power and who can argue? Definitely the lucky country.
 

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American politics ahve always favoured an 'outsider', from the very outset the founding fathers assumed that anyone who made a career of politics was bound to oppress the people.

This feeling continues today, the system is always wrong, the system can not be fixed from the inside so a corageous outsider must step in. Thus presidential candidates particularly republicans (until 1994) always portrayed themselves as campaigning against the evil senate/congress, which was democratic until 1994.

In 1994 the democrats lost both houses becasue of "The Contract of America", which was essentially a list of republican wet-dreams however it also contained in spirit an letter the idea that career legislators were 'crooked' (to borrow a spartan term). And that hence all signatories to the contract should resign from politics after no more than two terms. In this way they would be 'outsiders' or as they liked to call it 'citizen legislators'.

The disadvanatge to this system of operation are two numerous to list, suffice to say it essentially means placing a group of populist/demagogic amateurs in charge and undermines the very idea of long term policy and stability.
 

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u see, the dumber u are
the more easier it is be be manipulated.

the american media- like fox ent.
mindfully places wholesome trash in the minds of people, so that the actions of the government in relative respect seems ingenious.


moral :) ?

if u dont fill your brain with stuff
your actually allowing other people to fill it up for you :)

cheers mate! :)
 

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thaoroxy2001 said:
HA! and they call themselves the lucky country!....

also in a recent study: more than 150,000 ppl from each of the 50 states were tested for their IQ.....average IQ of each state were taken and placed in order from highest to lowest. Then they showed which state had the majority of voters for KERRY and BUSH....All the states that had the majority of votes for BUSH were on the bottom of the IQ list and all the states that had the majority of votes for KERRY were on the TOP of the IQ list...hahahahaha....now that is funny :uhuh:
That is a common urban legend that has been passed around for over thirty years in various forms to illustrate the supposedly inferior intelligence of Republicans.
There has been no such study and all those claims are false, fullstop.

The reason why America doesn't sign the bill on children's rights is because it wants to reserve the right to execute minors. An act I don't believe has been taken. But i'm not 100% sure on that.
 
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The stupidity of the average American is what keeps the Republicans in office. See the American mind suffers from groupthink, it will always move with the group and can rarely make decisions for itself. The American mind lacks an ability to de-construct what it is told, so it takes what it is told and goes with it.

When combined with blind patriotism and extreme religious belief, you have a person who is easily influenced by what they are told, but without an ability to question what they are told. The ability to question is essential for an ideal democracy.

The American however, never questions. Even if he does question, he is questioning the two basic pillars of American existence- patriotism and religion, and so he will be blasted into submission by the unthinking masses.

Somehow, conservative American politics has harnessed both patriotism and religion and with them a majority of Americans.
 

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leetom said:
The stupidity of the average American is what keeps the Republicans in office. See the American mind suffers from groupthink, it will always move with the group and can rarely make decisions for itself. The American mind lacks an ability to de-construct what it is told, so it takes what it is told and goes with it.

When combined with blind patriotism and extreme religious belief, you have a person who is easily influenced by what they are told, but without an ability to question what they are told. The ability to question is essential for an ideal democracy.

The American however, never questions. Even if he does question, he is questioning the two basic pillars of American existence- patriotism and religion, and so he will be blasted into submission by the unthinking masses.

Somehow, conservative American politics has harnessed both patriotism and religion and with them a majority of Americans.
Conservative governments have dominated basically all Western democracies. Maybe this is actually a reflection of what the people actually want rather than what they are manipulated into thinking.
P.S Considering every president can only stand for two terms I think this is opportunity enough for the Democrats and Republicans to both get a fair shot.
 

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I thought going to Iraq was proof enough of American stupidity/regressive social polices? :confused:
Points for stating the obvious.
I knew that I was right for questioning American Universities.
 

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zahid said:
I was doing some research for a project here is what i came up with.

According to Department of Education National Adult Literacy Survey, There are fourty four million Americans who can not read and write above a fourth grade level- in other words, who are functional illiterates.

Majority of its citizens can not locate Kosovo (or any other country it has bombed) on the map. 65% of Americans adult between the age of 18 and 25 could not find the United Kingdom on the map. All that kissing American asses by Mr Blair, and American do not even know where the hell Mr Blairs lips were!

Should a people this ignorant be running the world? How did they get in charge at the first place? According to INS, 92% of Americans dont even own a passport. I guess they dont have to, 10,000 miles away from home, you are still in your home turf, speaking the same damn languages! Only a handful of them know any language other than English (and they barely speak that one!)

Americans have quite a proud tradition of being represented by ignorant high-ranking officials. In 1956 President Dwight D. Eisenhower's nominee as ambassador to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) was unable to identify either the country's prime minister or its capital during his senate confirmation hearing.

In 1982, President Ronald Regan's nominee for deputy secretary of state, William Clark, admitted to a wide ranging lack of knowledge about foreign affairs at his confirmation hearing.
Source: St. Petersburgh Times, july 21, 1989.

Recently a group of 556 seniors from fifty five prestigious American universities (e,g, Harvard, Yale and Stanford) were given a multi choice test consisting of questions that were described as 'high school level' Thirty four questions were asked. These top students could only answer 53% of them correctly. and only one student got them all right.

A whopping 40 percent of these students didnt know when the American Civil war took place. The two questions the college seniors scored highest were 1. Who is snoop- dog (98% got them right) 2. Who are Bevis and Butt-head? (99% got them right)

Source: Pittsburgh post-gazette sept 03, 2000 and New York Times April 8, 2001



Yale or Harvard, Princeton or Dartmouth and Berkeley, get a degree from one of this university and you are set for life, 70% of those students at these fine schools had never heard of Voting Rights Act or President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society Initiatives.

Here is the kicker!
163 New York City school opened in 2000-2001 school without a principal! you heard right, school, with no one in charge!! Apparently the mayor and the school board are experimenting woth 'chaos theory'!

Source: New York Times May 19, 2001. reports about teacher shortage.



In New York City almost 15% of the eleven hundred public Schools are without a full time custodians, forcing teachers to mop their own floors and students to do without toilet paper.
Source: New York Times May 28, 2001 reports by Shaila Dewan title : 'Janitorial Rules Leave Teachers Holding a Mop'

Thirty eight states have death penalty out of fifty states. United States are one of the few countries in the world that puts to death both the mentally retarded and juvenile offenders. The United States is among only six countries that impose the death penalty on juveniles. The others five are Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

The United States is also the only country besides Somalia that has not signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

No Other industrialized nation executes its children.
America was right to bomb Iraq. It was worth the sacrifice for democracy. The death penalty is a good thing , it puts away the mass murderers and the idiots of society. They have a right not to speak English if they choose to. If Americans are so stupid, why are they the most powerful and influentual country in the world?
 

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david88 said:
America was right to bomb Iraq. It was worth the sacrifice for democracy. The death penalty is a good thing , it puts away the mass murderers and the idiots of society. They have a right not to speak English if they choose to. If Americans are so stupid, why are they the most powerful and influentual country in the world?
Yes and you are MENTALLY RETARDED...if u were in America they would execute you too....which would be a good thing.
 

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I wonder how other English-speaking countries compare?
 

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david88 said:
America was right to bomb Iraq. It was worth the sacrifice for democracy.
u said it urself..."bomb".......america only bombs.....it is a nation that does not know how to negotiate....if things dont go their way......they bomb.....why didnt they do away with saddam when they were able to instead of supplying him with weapons during the gulf war......and now after the deaths of thousands of Iraqis for "democracy"..where is saddam, where is his trial, his public execution....surely such an evil man should be punished immediately.....
 

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How can you possibly condems Americans as stupid using the invasion of Iraq as proof. We went and so did Britain. Using this logic we therefore are stupid and ignorant and arrogant etc etc.
 

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If Americans are so "stupid" for keeping George Bush in power, then Australians are also so "stupid" for keeping John Howard in power. So don't be hypocritical.


david88 said:
America was right to bomb Iraq. It was worth the sacrifice for democracy. The death penalty is a good thing , it puts away the mass murderers and the idiots of society. They have a right not to speak English if they choose to. If Americans are so stupid, why are they the most powerful and influentual country in the world?

Thank you for that. Maybe u ppl should go and investigate how many people Saddam killed during his reign? Maybe those Kurds can go and tell u.

Just because modern liberal society says that the Death Penalty is wrong, that does not necessarily make it wrong. A life sentence in jail? That's just the same thing anyway, just that it's "supposed" to sound better.

America does not become the most powerful and influential country in the world because they are idiots. Go figure.

Oh, and does America torture its Olympians for not performing well (like Saddam did)? No, i didn't think so either.
 

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John Howard may be stupid but at least he isn't as semile as Bush yet
 

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firehose said:
If Americans are so "stupid" for keeping George Bush in power, then Australians are also so "stupid" for keeping John Howard in power.
Yep. I'm sure as hell not proud that more Australians seem to be worried about interest rates than social policies and reform...
 

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