I must confess that I have not watched the vids that have been linked in this thread. But I do know the ones that they go on about.

Often they are edited to make you look silly and also many of the people are not all that well educated as well.

In saying that some of the stupidest people I have met were at University.

Now my beautiful gf (bless her) has the most appalling sence of direction and I am not surprised that she does not know the location of many countries. Some alot larger than others (ha ha).

But get her on a topic that interets her then "boom" her knowledge blows mine out of the water.

Who is stupid now? - or is it more just whose interest is geography/history/politics/cars/animals/etc and what is the topic of the question?

The US does not have a monopoly on idiots - they are worldwide. The US is just unfortunate that theirs are broadcast everywhere....