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America The Dumbest Nation

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That isn't an American, that's an ex-Nazi scientist.

funny you mention the nazis

without us, you would be speaking german right now

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And I understand that brain fart, but reading as to why you think it's a trick question I couldn't help but be reminded of this:

Q: Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?
A: I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh. . . people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over HERE in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our children.

Now, now...let's not bring Ms. South Carolina into this :p.

I think that I referred to it as a trick question because I had one specific instance in mind. A girl actually answered the question with Uzbekistan, and the guy was like "LOL WHAT ABOUT THE UNITED STATES?!", which annoyed the hell out of me.
 
My roommate had no idea that South Africa is a country. I had to take a fair bit of time to explain the difference between north Africa and South Africa and I'm not sure if he got it. Perhaps I should have used a map since he probably has no idea what the world's continents look like.
 
Invading Italy, shooting people over kool-aid, robbing girl scouts for $150 cuz I need dat money, eating peoples faces, banning soda because citizens are fat fucks. LOL. God bless America!
 
I think I've seen this video in the past, in fact I'm pretty sure I quickly shut the window due to my being embarrassed for these people. I sincerely hope this is the extreme minority.
 
Every country has their fair share of idiots, so I won't hold that against you. But you guys did vote in Bush....twice. Now that is something to face palm at.
 
Cool, interviewing a bunch of people with questions about things that have no direct impact on their lives, selectively choosing the dumbest answers, and using that as proof that Americans are stupid.

I'm sure such a thing wouldn't be possible in any other country in the world.

I'm sure everyone in your country would have answered all these questions perfectly.
 
Cool, interviewing a bunch of people with questions about things that have no direct impact on their lives, selectively choosing the dumbest answers, and using that as proof that Americans are stupid.

I'm sure such a thing wouldn't be possible in any other country in the world.

I'm sure everyone in your country would have answered all these questions perfectly.

Pretty much. My friend was a victim of this. The guy who was interviewing him asked him a bunch of questions (the idea was to show that University students are dumb). He got all of them right except for one. Guess which one he chose for his show?
 
Cool, interviewing a bunch of people with questions about things that have no direct impact on their lives, selectively choosing the dumbest answers, and using that as proof that Americans are stupid.

I'm sure such a thing wouldn't be possible in any other country in the world.

I'm sure everyone in your country would have answered all these questions perfectly.


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Cool, interviewing a bunch of people with questions about things that have no direct impact on their lives, selectively choosing the dumbest answers, and using that as proof that Americans are stupid.

I'm sure such a thing wouldn't be possible in any other country in the world.

I'm sure everyone in your country would have answered all these questions perfectly.

exactly what I took from this.
 
If you listen to the Russians in this thread.

Well, if you listen to enough Americans you'd think we entered the war to save the jews and not because we were upset over what happened in the pacific. People were fighting years without us, and we certainly couldn't have done it on our own.
 
Dude, this is just how human beings behave. If they don't understand the relevance that something has to their daily lives, they won't be interested in it. And that goes for all people. Also, judging intelligence by how well informed you are about current events is silly. That's not to say the people in that video are intelligent :D
 
This question doesn't bother me too much, because I've always hated the demonym "American," although it seems like at this point in our linguistic history we are stuck with that. But that doesn't mean the country should be called that, since America refers to a continent, and our country is the USA. Just one of my pet peeves.
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It really annoys me when people refer to the United States as "America".
 
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It really annoys me when people refer to the United States as "America".

Why? I think the people of a country have a right to call themselves whatever they want. If people in Paraguay wanted to be called Americans, I wouldn't care. Nor should you. We like to call ourselves Americans and our country America. It's our land and our language. *glasses fall down from the heavens* Deal with it.
 
I like how in answering 'country that starts with a U', people in here think of Uzbekistan, UAE and Uganda, but not the United Kingdom.
 
I like how in answering 'country that starts with a U', people in here think of Uzbekistan, UAE and Uganda, but not the United Kingdom.

Is UK a country? I'm still not clear on how the United Kingdom, Britain, and England all fit together. I thought England was a country, but I also thought UK was a country. I know England is part of UK. Does that make UK the country and England a state or territory or something of UK? Or is England the country, and UK isn't a country, but a collection of countries? And where does Britain fit into all of this?

I think someone explained it to me years ago, but it apparently didn't stick.
 
I'm pretty sure you can find this in EVERY single country out there because people only care about their selfish needs and what they plan on doing for the night.

But dumber than North Korea? Come on now...
 
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