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    Default Re: Are US-Americans dumb?

    I hate to tell you, but there is a great deal of what you speak of in the large suburban areas of the Pacific Northwest too, and the rest of the country to boot.

    I don’t think you would have to go to far to find it in Eugene too.


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    So I'm thanking every response that apportions some measure of fault to ignorance. Ignorance in and of itself is not evil, it's just a matter of fact. I will forever be ignorant in the field of rocket science, and I'll never be ashamed of it. Our problem lies in the cause of the ignorance. I would argue that the cause is apathy. Most of us simply don't care. I have seen two reasons for the apathy.

    first - I got mine and am set, don't care if you have yours or not, don't need to know.
    second - the man is holding me down and I have no chance, so why should I care.

    Most Americans are apathetic. Until we get hungry again we will have no reason not to be. You hungry people in the rest of the world can go ahead and fight over who will host the next success story (current American Dream).

    edit - not capitalizing us in the title was purposeful. I suppose my play on us ignorance wasn't that amusing though. So no matter.
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    Well f me if somehow I managed to make Americans apathy an ideological issue. I sure didn't mean for that to happen.

    It is pointless to discuss the causes for the poor Americans. We will not agree. Thread after thread after thread breaks down into this argument and nothing is proven from that, no minds are changed. Can't we just let it go at that?
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    Default Re: Are US-Americans dumb?

    Americans are complacent.
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    Default Re: Are US-Americans dumb?

    Let's face some VERY simple facts here...

    USAnians coming to Europe are generally seen as stupid and unsophisticated.
    Europeans coming to the USA are generally seen as intelligent and sophisticated.

    We can play the "blame shift" game all day long, but this kind of IS how it IS, no?

    I'm sure many USAnians have empirical evidence of other situations, but cultural views are there for a reason.

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    I'm sure many USAnians have empirical evidence of other situations, but cultural views are there for a reason.
    Er, you can't just make up "cultural views" on the spot...
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    Default Re: Are US-Americans dumb?

    so just did.

    But I have empirical evidence to support it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kadagar_AV View Post
    Europeans coming to the USA are generally seen as intelligent and sophisticated.
    That depends entirely on where they go. Anyone coming to NYC is generally seen as an idiot yokel by the locals, regardless of their nation of origin.


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    Quote Originally Posted by TinCow View Post
    That depends entirely on where they go. Anyone coming to NYC is generally seen as an idiot yokel by the locals, regardless of their nation of origin.
    Including, of course, USA

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kadagar_AV View Post
    Let's face some VERY simple facts here...

    USAnians coming to Europe are generally seen as stupid and unsophisticated.
    Europeans coming to the USA are generally seen as intelligent and sophisticated.

    We can play the "blame shift" game all day long, but this kind of IS how it IS, no?

    I'm sure many USAnians have empirical evidence of other situations, but cultural views are there for a reason.
    I live close to a national park and lots of Europeans come into my work during the summer time. They like to wear fannypacks and socks with sandals. I've never considered socks with sandals to be intelligent and sophisticated, except for when I was 10 and I got bullied a lot.

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    Fashion is whatever Europeans decide it is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tuuvi View Post
    I live close to a national park and lots of Europeans come into my work during the summer time. They like to wear fannypacks and socks with sandals. I've never considered socks with sandals to be intelligent and sophisticated, except for when I was 10 and I got bullied a lot.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
    I know, I'm being pithy. If we had clear geographical delineations this would have erupted into war decades ago.
    Clear geographical delineations do exist. Intelligence decreases dramatically once one goes north of Watford, while south of Dover intelligence levels hold up, but the natives turn it to devious and reprehensible ends, like speaking in strange tongues.

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