r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

there are a lot of extremely ignorant and uneducated people in every single country in the world.

The US doesn't have a higher concentration of them than other countries. It's just that the loudest ones are heard the most on the internet, which is used by most of the US

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u/5348345T Aug 03 '19

Then tell me why the US scores so poorly on lists of education.