Are we really all that dumb

[Moros]

The man who oppose guns, military, killings and massarcre is a whimp? I would say he is the enlightened one.

Amen to that brother.

I think people are not smarter at some place in the world but when you speak about knowledge it's not alway the smartest one who know's the much.
I think that Europeans Eduction System work somewhat better then Americas one. Ofcourse I could be wrong since I never went to an American scool.

but I've seen on the news that there was a test (abouit a half year ago) where the questioned 14-15 year olds all over the world about different theme's like: maths, foreign languages, science,... don't know them anymore.
Then they made a ranking list of all those theme's and an overal(sp?) ranking. the results: all the top ten's were dominated by European country's and perhaps a few Asian (I don't remember properly) but I do remember that America wasn't in the top ten. I can't say how reliable it was.

yes America has the nasa and stuff. But someone told me that most of these research teams and building teams were often lead by foreigners or people who just became Amaricans.

Also Americans aren't verry good in foreig languages, but hey, why would you learn them, evrybody speaks English. In Europe they know a lot more languages. In Belgium (flanders) you start learning you first foureign language when your 10-11 years old (french) then in college when you're 13/14 old you get English. when they're 14-15 They get at least one year german but junles you take a verry maths/scientific orientated(word?) class (like me) you'll have it till you graduate. If you're following a language orientated (word?) class you can also get spanish or Italian (16-18 years old).
a lot of people also learn latin (13 years and on) and possibly (ancient) greek
(13-...).
When you go to University well you can leanr any language you want ofcourse ;).


anyhow when looking at IQ it's about the same all over the world but Amarica isn't that much the number one when it comes to technologie. Japan for example.

I' not saying Amercans are dumb, okay? I just wanted to point out that they're not extremly hi-tech aliens.
But I voted more ingorant mostly because what sharrukin said, and I think other cultures are one of the most fascinating and interesting things.