Americans are NOT stupid

Sarevok• · Sat, 15th Oct '05, 6:16pm

Honestly

http://media.putfile.com/On-The-Streets-Of-America-3

Pac man · Sat, 15th Oct '05, 6:19pm

ROFL One guy said Canada.

Death Rabbit · Sat, 15th Oct '05, 6:41pm

Ooooh boy, I love camera shows like this. They're so accurate! I mean, it isn't like these camera crews spend all day (often, several days) picking out the dumbest answers from the hundreds of people they pick out on the street or anything. Or that they target the dumbest-looking people they can find. And it isn't understandable at all that some people, when caught off guard on the street, don't always give out the most well-thought answers on a moment's notice. No sir!

Posts like this say more about the stupidity of the poster, rather than the country they're dissing. Like this is "proof" of American stupidity. I'm sure if I did the same thing on the streets of London every single person I walked up to would be a f*cking social studies professor.

kuemper · Sat, 15th Oct '05, 6:50pm

Hmm, can't view the video. Oh well, was it really that bad?

Pac man · Sat, 15th Oct '05, 6:55pm

It was worse.

I have to agree with Death rabbit though, they sure know who to pick. It's not that hard to guess who's what going to say, no matter where you are.

Death Rabbit · Sat, 15th Oct '05, 6:56pm

It's a reporter asking random people "Who do you think we should attack next in the war on terror?" About half the people say something relevant to the subject, mostly "Saudi Arabia,""North Korea," or "Iran." One guy said "I think we should turn the whole damn place into a f*ckin' glass factory." Some others said Pakistan, China, one guy said Canada I believe, which is kind of funny. It was pretty tame, but evidently to Sarevok, random people on the street not being able to pick out small countries on an even smaller map means the whole country has it's collective thumb up it's ass. He evidently isn't bright enough to realize that these segments can be so heavily slanted they don't mean a damn thing.

Death Rabbit · Sat, 15th Oct '05, 6:58pm

Some Americans are stupid. I know quite a few, believe me - I used to live in Texas. Anyone who confuses France for Australia is an idiot, I agree. But don't try and tell me the purpose of this thread wasn't America bashing on your part, Sarevok. "Man on the Street" interviews can be easily skewed to make people look like idiots, and I believe that's the case here. The producers of this segment clearly edited together the most entertaining answers, and people correctly answering questions like this in a thoughtful manner aren't entertaining. You using this to take a cheap shot at my country is not only obvious, but pretty tired (as this is about the 3rd or so such thread on this same topic I've seen in my time here) and certainly obnoxious. So ha ha, congratulations - Americans are stupid. Way to be original.

If I started a thread that implied all Britons were morons because dental hygene isn't a terribly complicated procedure, and we all know people in your country have a reputation for having ghastly teeth (otherwise the Austin Powers joke wouldn't be so funny), I wouldn't expect you not to be insulted. So don't tell me to calm down. You were clearly America-bashing, be man enough to admit it.

Undertaker · Sat, 15th Oct '05, 7:10pm

Well about 99,99% of teens in Poland wouldn't be fooled by such map

To mistake Australia for North Korea

Adult people! Most of them educated at least at primary shool. This only shows that many people in USA don't bother themselves about other countries (not to mention the existance of many or pointing their location on map)

Sarevok• · Sat, 15th Oct '05, 7:20pm

Now now Deathrabbit, calm down, I never said a bad word about Americans.

Bahir the Red · Sat, 15th Oct '05, 7:22pm

[semi-sarcasm]Well this pretty much proves it.[/semi-sarcasm]

Come on, how the hell can you be so unknowing that you confuse Australia with France and all the other countries they mentioned. Even if they picked these people out of hundreds I have a hard time emagining that this could happend in another industrial country where the education system supposedly is working.

Sarevok• · Sat, 15th Oct '05, 7:25pm

Quote:

I'm sure if I did the same thing on the streets of London every single person I walked up to would be a f*cking social studies professor

Well, I could safely say that no Brit could mistake Australia for France, that's certain.

Pac man · Sat, 15th Oct '05, 7:26pm

Oh, there's no doubt in my mind that it's damn well possible.

Blackthorne TA · Sat, 15th Oct '05, 9:16pm

OK, enough attacking one another.

Sarevok, if you want to post something like this in the future, try to be more politic about it (e.g. you can't believe how stupid some Americans are). The clear implication you gave with this post is that Americans in general are stupid, and you know that's against the rules here.

And I don't want to see any future attacks on posters or generalizations of stupid Americans in this thread.

I am surprised that those people didn't know Australia even though it was mislabeled on the map...

Saber · Sat, 15th Oct '05, 9:40pm

HAHAHAHAH

I cannot believe that people don't know at least part of the map (France or North Korea being in Australia?!). I mean, I don't know every African or Middle Eastern or Asian country, But i damn well know the larger countries.

And yes, the general population of America is stupid. Even though I'm American, I'll admit that we are reeally stupid.

And on a side-note: American do not know (or care) about other countries. Everyone knows about America. I interveiwed a man from an African country (i forget, this was a long time ago) who fled the country because he wrote something in the newspaper that went against the government, so they were going to have him killed. When he came over, he was surprised that Americans new so little about other countries, whereas everyone else knows about America. Everyone knows Bush, everyone knows the war in Iraq.

Of course, we are also a single nation, whereas Americans would have to keep track of a bunch of others, but still...

Wordplay · Sat, 15th Oct '05, 11:14pm

Well, it hardly matters; if they keep invading countries like this, sooner or later they will burn their hands. But hey; why can't we have some nice, asian films for change? Ridiculing yanks is getting pretty old...

Deathmage · Sun, 16th Oct '05, 12:10am

It's amazing how like three of those people selected Australia as the base of all evil...

Pac man · Sun, 16th Oct '05, 12:13am

Well, some people simply don't like kangaroos.

Sydax · Sun, 16th Oct '05, 12:18am

That happens everywhere: a VIP TV guy was talking to another about lating gangs, at some point, he said that Ecuador is a central-american country, which, for those that understandably don't know, is not; I had the chance to study about geography and I know mostly every country around the world, but with the latest changes that happened in the former USRR where lots of new countries born, I really can't tell which is one or another and UNTIL I don't take some time studying/watching information about those countries, I WILL not know nothing about them; in Argentina there are lots of tv shows where they pick random people to ask stupid questions and always they air the most stupid answers, and I think that that doesn't make a country stupid or ignorant. I study a lot things about almost everything but you should ask me about something I didn't study, I should, maybe, answer something stupid, which, doesn't make me stupid.
Sometimes information doesn't get to every people, and sometimes, that information is not relevant to other people. That doesn't make a person stupid/ignorant.

Kitrax · Sun, 16th Oct '05, 12:24am

Every country has its idiots.

jaded empath · Sun, 16th Oct '05, 3:10am

Okay, methinks kitrax said it best (to which I'll paraphrase) Idiots are everywhere.

And I'll tell you exactly why 'mr. cnnnnnn pollster' managed to find so many people who seem so uninformed - ALL people are LAZY and often can't be bothered running the info they're getting through the old 'common sense' part of their brain. They just take the question asked at face value, without checking for obvious falacies. In this case, they assume that the map provided is correct - this intelligent interviewer wouldn't have any errors in his map!

And yes, I said *all* you, you even YOU (I see you there, trying to hide behind your monitor

) and even ME; it's natural to assume information being presented to you is accurate - if we had to 'second guess' everything we heard, saw, read, etc. we'd never get anything done! We HAVE to take some info 'as given' otherwise there's no point in taking in info at all.

For example, it's technically possible for someone to forge posts to a newgroup, bulletin board, forum, etc. So it's possible that say that posts attributed to...uh...Pac Man, say, are actually being sent to us from D.B. Cooper, or whatever he's calling himself nowadays.

I *could* go through all the effort of tracing the origin of the 'Pac' posts in this thread, comparing their origin with some that I know are from the real person (or DO I?

) but, is it really worth all the effort?!? So I assume...

And that's all that's happening here - most of these people are getting caught with their assumptions around their ankles. (whether they know the correct locations of countries is beside the point; they trust the interviewer)

An even more blatant example of this 'blindside poll for funny results' is Rick Mercer and those 'Talking to Americans' segments and shows. At one point with the 2000 election he managed to dupe both candidates:

- He asked Al Gore (in the middle of a busy media scrum) - if he became president - whether the first state visit Pres. Gore would make would be to Canada's capital of Toronto. Gore waffled like the party bureaucrat he is to this day, but basically agreed.

- Rick also asked then Gov. Bush (in the same noisy crowded circumstances) for his feelings about Canada's Prime Minister (Jacques Poutine) declaring that he'd prefer George W. Bush as the next President. Now I don't like Bush, his daddy, his brother, or the party they all represent, but I will give dubya this to his credit - he asked for the question to be repeated, paused a good few seconds with this glint in his eye that seemed to say "WTF is this guy on - is he trying to trick me or something? Ahhhh, what the heck, let's go along with the joke" and when he replied about america's valuable 'neighbor to the north', and how 'this man has a lot of sense' (without actually stating anything obviously wrong), he was grinnin' from ear to ear.

But my point is that they didn't have the time to stop and think (that looks bad on TV...'the potential candidate is a lethargic plodder who can't answer a simple question without screeching to a halt') and trusted someone to be honest and accurate with their info....something we ALL do.

Anyway, this kinda leads to the other group that I believe make up those that made it to air: the people that realized that the whole thing was a joke, but went ahead with it anyway.

But what disturbs me is the VERBAL responses from some people - especially the chap who decided that BRAZIL should be the next target of the War on Terror(tm). I mean, Canada I can see - I'm a Canadian and we tick off the yanks all the time (with our cheap lumber, our socialized medicine, our incessant joking about our 'dumb' neighbours, etc.), but BRAZIL?!? What the heck did they do, raise the cost of beef they sell to McDonald's or something???

It's possible that the gentleman in question was just "foolin 'round", but if not...

Vae · Sun, 16th Oct '05, 3:29am

Sydax, I don't mean to nitpick, but your post didn't make much sense.

"Sometimes information doesn't get to every people, and sometimes, that information is not relevant to other people."

True.

"That doesn't make a person stupid/ignorant."

False.

It doesn't make a person stupid, but ignorance is, by definition, the lack of knowledge. If someone doesn't need to know something, and thus they do know know it, then they are completely ignorant of it. That's all ignorance is.

Kitrax · Sun, 16th Oct '05, 3:35am

Here comes the AoDA.

:rolling

grillen · Sun, 16th Oct '05, 3:39am

I live in America, it is a nice place but we have two problems. One is dumb people, the other is fat people. Usually fat people are also dumb.

Saber · Sun, 16th Oct '05, 4:06am

Hey, thats not very nice grillen. I know plenty of intelligent fat people. They just like their food. That doesn't make them stupid.

Yes, some fat people are stupid, like the people who don't think eating fast food will make them fat, but you said 'usually', which is a poor choice of words. Instead, use 'some'.

And empath: if you knew that portugal was next to spain, and someone gave you a map that said it was in Asia, i'm pretty sure you wouldn't take that as true, but tell them that it is wrong. Some people are just not intelligent enough to know that North Korea and France are not in Australia.

Taluntain · Sun, 16th Oct '05, 6:47pm

I know plenty of stupid people that aren't fat... does that then make fat people stupid, but also everyone else? So we're all stupid, by that logic.

The fact is, if you're going to go fishing for stupid people, you'll inevitably find enough in a crowd to put together a couple of minutes of footage. In ANY country. Admittedly, having people mistake a whole bloody continent of Australia for anything else just because it's labelled differently is pretty amazing, but besides showing some people's ignorance of geography, it doesn't really prove anything else.

So I think this thread is ripe for closure.

Sat, 15th Oct '05, 6:41pm	#3
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Sun, 16th Oct '05, 3:10am	#20
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Sun, 16th Oct '05, 3:35am	#22
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Sat, 15th Oct '05, 6:16pm	#1
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Sat, 15th Oct '05, 6:19pm	#2
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Sat, 15th Oct '05, 6:50pm	#4
kuemper I'm gonna eat your soul! Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Blood Wars Posts: 8,926 Like: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 19,635 Level: 39 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 50.33% Daily Activity 2.26% Weekly Activity 1.29% Monthly Activity 1.51% Achievements	Hmm, can't view the video. Oh well, was it really that bad?

Sat, 15th Oct '05, 6:55pm	#5
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Sat, 15th Oct '05, 6:56pm	#6
Death Rabbit SPS Account Holder Straight, no chaser Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Jahiera's cleavage Posts: 6,033 Like: 20 Liked 32 Times in 19 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 16,762 Level: 37 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 2.12% Daily Activity 2.26% Weekly Activity 30.36% Monthly Activity 11.3% Achievements	It's a reporter asking random people "Who do you think we should attack next in the war on terror?" About half the people say something relevant to the subject, mostly "Saudi Arabia,""North Korea," or "Iran." One guy said "I think we should turn the whole damn place into a f*ckin' glass factory." Some others said Pakistan, China, one guy said Canada I believe, which is kind of funny. It was pretty tame, but evidently to Sarevok, random people on the street not being able to pick out small countries on an even smaller map means the whole country has it's collective thumb up it's ass. He evidently isn't bright enough to realize that these segments can be so heavily slanted they don't mean a damn thing.

Sat, 15th Oct '05, 7:10pm	#8
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Sat, 15th Oct '05, 7:20pm	#9
Sarevok• MCCCXXXVII Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Heaven Posts: 1,666 Like: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 4,076 Level: 20 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 27.4% Daily Activity 2.26% Weekly Activity 1.29% Monthly Activity 1.51% Achievements	Now now Deathrabbit, calm down, I never said a bad word about Americans.

Sat, 15th Oct '05, 7:22pm	#10
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Sat, 15th Oct '05, 7:26pm	#12
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Sat, 15th Oct '05, 9:16pm	#13
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Sat, 15th Oct '05, 9:40pm	#14
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Sat, 15th Oct '05, 11:14pm	#15
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Sun, 16th Oct '05, 12:10am	#16
Deathmage Arrr! Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Here Posts: 1,838 Blog Entries: 1 Like: 1 Liked 1 Time in 1 Post vBActivity - Stats XP: 4,805 Level: 21 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 77.87% Daily Activity 2.26% Weekly Activity 1.29% Monthly Activity 1.51% Achievements	It's amazing how like three of those people selected Australia as the base of all evil...

Sun, 16th Oct '05, 12:13am	#17
Pac man Gems: 25/31 Latest gem: Moonbar Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Utrecht The Netherlands Posts: 2,119 Like: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 4,849 Level: 21 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 86.67% Daily Activity 2.26% Weekly Activity 1.29% Monthly Activity 1.51% Achievements	Well, some people simply don't like kangaroos.

Sun, 16th Oct '05, 12:18am	#18
Sydax I can seeee... live people Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Barcelona Posts: 1,166 Like: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 3,505 Level: 18 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 99.27% Daily Activity 2.26% Weekly Activity 1.29% Monthly Activity 1.51% Achievements	That happens everywhere: a VIP TV guy was talking to another about lating gangs, at some point, he said that Ecuador is a central-american country, which, for those that understandably don't know, is not; I had the chance to study about geography and I know mostly every country around the world, but with the latest changes that happened in the former USRR where lots of new countries born, I really can't tell which is one or another and UNTIL I don't take some time studying/watching information about those countries, I WILL not know nothing about them; in Argentina there are lots of tv shows where they pick random people to ask stupid questions and always they air the most stupid answers, and I think that that doesn't make a country stupid or ignorant. I study a lot things about almost everything but you should ask me about something I didn't study, I should, maybe, answer something stupid, which, doesn't make me stupid. Sometimes information doesn't get to every people, and sometimes, that information is not relevant to other people. That doesn't make a person stupid/ignorant.

Sun, 16th Oct '05, 12:24am	#19
Kitrax Pantaloons are supposed to go where!?!? Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Salt Lake City, UT Posts: 7,899 Blog Entries: 11 Like: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 19,727 Level: 39 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 57.96% Daily Activity 2.26% Weekly Activity 1.29% Monthly Activity 1.51% Achievements	Every country has its idiots.

Sun, 16th Oct '05, 3:29am	#21
Vae Gems: 1/31 Latest gem: Turquoise Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Springfield, MO Posts: 10 Like: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 306 Level: 6 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 41.06% Daily Activity 2.26% Weekly Activity 1.29% Monthly Activity 1.51% Achievements	Sydax, I don't mean to nitpick, but your post didn't make much sense. "Sometimes information doesn't get to every people, and sometimes, that information is not relevant to other people." True. "That doesn't make a person stupid/ignorant." False. It doesn't make a person stupid, but ignorance is, by definition, the lack of knowledge. If someone doesn't need to know something, and thus they do know know it, then they are completely ignorant of it. That's all ignorance is.

Sun, 16th Oct '05, 3:39am	#23
grillen Gems: 2/31 Latest gem: Fire Agate Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 48 Like: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 407 Level: 7 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 31.51% Daily Activity 2.26% Weekly Activity 1.29% Monthly Activity 1.51% Achievements	I live in America, it is a nice place but we have two problems. One is dumb people, the other is fat people. Usually fat people are also dumb.

Sun, 16th Oct '05, 4:06am	#24
Saber A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having! Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Boston, Massachusetts Posts: 4,897 Like: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 11,221 Level: 31 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 30.96% Daily Activity 2.26% Weekly Activity 1.29% Monthly Activity 1.51% Achievements	Hey, thats not very nice grillen. I know plenty of intelligent fat people. They just like their food. That doesn't make them stupid. Yes, some fat people are stupid, like the people who don't think eating fast food will make them fat, but you said 'usually', which is a poor choice of words. Instead, use 'some'. And empath: if you knew that portugal was next to spain, and someone gave you a map that said it was in Asia, i'm pretty sure you wouldn't take that as true, but tell them that it is wrong. Some people are just not intelligent enough to know that North Korea and France are not in Australia.

Sun, 16th Oct '05, 6:47pm	#25
Taluntain SPS Account Holder Founder Resident Alpha and Omega Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Cori Celesti Posts: 20,863 Blog Entries: 13 Like: 176 Liked 133 Times in 85 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 53,289 Level: 58 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 55.1% Daily Activity 47.51% Weekly Activity 94.96% Monthly Activity 55.77% Achievements Awards	I know plenty of stupid people that aren't fat... does that then make fat people stupid, but also everyone else? So we're all stupid, by that logic. The fact is, if you're going to go fishing for stupid people, you'll inevitably find enough in a crowd to put together a couple of minutes of footage. In ANY country. Admittedly, having people mistake a whole bloody continent of Australia for anything else just because it's labelled differently is pretty amazing, but besides showing some people's ignorance of geography, it doesn't really prove anything else. So I think this thread is ripe for closure.