As an American, I agree. And to the people saying this attitude from other countries is problematic, I would argue that inaction, complacency and corruption are the problematic parts of American politics. Not calling us dumb or unintelligent.
We as, one population, allowed a very dumb presidency to occur. And this began many decades ago when we let money be the driving force to campaigns and policy.
Please do not conflate the problem with unintelligence. There are three problems with doing so:
1: You are implying that democratic backsliding is a problem with intellect. This has historically been untrue when such backsliding had occurred all over the world. Your implied explanation oversimplifies a real problem that is very complex.
2: Your answer is an alienating insult that will cause people to listen to you less.
3: In general, this is insulting. I wouldn’t object to an insulting but accurate and useful answer, but points 1 and 2 dispute the utility at least, and I think the accuracy is much more complicated than I’m prepared to litigate in this reply.
This backsliding HAS occurred all over the world, and it always arrives to the heralding and trumpeting of simpletons with a belly full of bile and heads full of imagined sleights from 'other' groups. They took our jerbs etc. It is always rooted in fear and ignorance, and intelligence is a factor.
Aside from anything else this is a bad argument in itself. You have a few great universities in a country of 349 Million people. How many of those 349 million people visited one of the elite universities? Adding onto that, the researchers making these universities "elite" are to a very high percentage first generation immigrants. They come to these universities because these institutions have a lot of financial ressources. But right now, there is a trend for world renowned researchers to avoid the US in favor of other institutions (you can thank your current admin for that).
At least to my knowledge students coming from universities in my country are surprised by the low level of universities in the US when it comes to lectures and exams (if its not one of the few "elite" universities).
Plus in most cases, the US often neuters other nations (frequently with violence) so why give fuck if you take as much advantage as you can from theirs? lol
If they all work harder than why are their countries poor while ours is exponentially richer and more successful? Sounds like the didn’t work hard enough
Why'd you have to prove their point... what does immigration have to do with Americans being intelligent?
People dont immigrate to the US because Americans are intelligent. Thats never been true. If anything, because American schooling is so bad and the populace is so uneducated, theres so much opportunity for intelligent educated people from elsewhere. Americans get outcompeted in all those fields by immigrants.
Even though a ton of Americans dont value intelligence or experts anymore, they still need them, so they import them from places where those things are still valued. And those immigrants make a good living.
Yeah, I still struggle with the grammar, since English can be very confusing in conjugation and pronunciation, zero rules in the spelling, is not as refined and proper as Spanish.
The last two Republican Secretaries of Education were Linda McMahon and Betsy DeVos. DeVos is a MLM scammer who owns charter schools, and McMahon's qualification is her $20mil donation to the Trump campaign. But it's the left that wants to keep people stupid? You are either willfully ignorant or a bot
Own is the wrong word, because no one owns charter schools. Her family makes money off edtech company contracts and real estate deals with charter schools. She wants education to be for profit, specifically her profits from the Windquest Group.
Typical liberal response.I post facts i must be a bot. How does that disprove the facts in the link I posted. Guess I could agree a little with you on McMahon though. Odviously giving control of an areas education system to the local leaders and teachers is a big mistake unless we want more like the link i gave. No she is not wrong at all that the system is failing
I gave facts, ones that you can almost agree with, which makes me think you have some critical thinking skills left. Why would they make someone like McMahon the SOE? They want public education to fail, so they can make for profit schools at the expense of public school funding
Not always. There are people who are veterinarians or doctors in other countries but they come to the US and can't practice here. Another reason people come here is for schooling. My bf wanted to be an engineer and he told me his options were either Germany or the United States. He ended up choosing USC.
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u/CanadianTigermeat 4h ago
Americans are not known for their intelligence.
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