AMERICANS ARE STUPID...REALLY STUPID...!
I THINK ITS GENETIC AND CULTURAL....
CONSIDER:
THE AMERICA NATION IS THE RESULT OF EUROPE FLUSHING THE WORST OF ITS GENE POOL ONTO THE SHORES OF NORTH AMERICA OVER SEVERAL CENTURIES...
BUT AMERICAN KIDS ARE NOT ONLY GENETICALLY CHALLENGED...
AMERICAN CULTURE...AND POP CULTURE ARE TOTALLY ANTI-INTELLECTUAL...
AMERICANS SIMPLY DO NOT HAVE AN INTELLECTUAL TRADITION...LIKE EUROPE OR ASIA HAS...
IN THESE "OLD WORLD" COUNTRIES...THERE WAS ROYALTY AND AN ARISTOCRACY THAT "TOOK AN INTEREST" IN CULTURAL MATTERS AND LEARNING...AS BEING THE SIGN OF AN ELITE...OR, TO ADVANCE THEIR FINANCIAL INTERESTS...
IN AMERICA MANY PEOPLE CAME HERE WITH AN ANTI-INTELLECTUAL BIAS...SEEING "LEARNING" AS A THROW BACK TO THEIR EXPERIENCE IN EUROPE AS PART OF THE "LOWER ORDERS"...AND AS A SIGN OF AN OLD HATED ARISTOCRACY.
AMERICAN POP CULTURE SIMPLY NEVER...NEVER...TELLS KIDS THAT "LEARNING IS GOOD"... MOSTLY THE MESSAGE IS THAT LEARNING IS FOR THE UGLY KIDS WHO CAN'T BE POPULAR...
AMONG AMERICAN KIDS...ITS MORE IMPORTANT TO HAVE POUTY LIPS ... OR TO BE AN ATHLETE..
THAN BE ON THE HONOR ROLL...WHICH IS USUALLY POPULATED BY KIDS OF ASIAN DESCENT...
SORRY...ITS NOT THE TEACHERS UNIONS...ITS THE POP CULTURE AND POOR GENETICS THAT ARE BEHIND AMERICAN STUPIDITY...
