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Because we're idiots when it comes to anything outside of the US.
Anything outside of the U.S.?
I could quiz average people in any area of the U.S. on basic U.S. geography questions, and many of them would be helplessly lost. In Oregon alone, it's mindblowing how many HS age students think the state capital is Portland.
After the Beslan school massacre, there was tons of press about Chechnya and its connection to Russian, Islam, and even Osama bin Laden's connection to Chechnya
I could quiz average people in any area of the U.S. on basic U.S. geography questions, and many of them would be helplessly lost. In Oregon alone, it's mindblowing how many HS age students think the state capital is Portland.
I ran into a college student in LA who insisted that Rome is the capitol city of Romania.
Doesn't really matter. They are all foreigners and that means they are inherently suspicious, unreliable and untrustworthy as well as being pinko socialist commies.
No, not all of us are idiots. But there's more of them these days than should be.
I don't know about that, I think people are as stupid as they ever were. And it isn't just Americans; Europeans can be irritatingly ignorant too. The only reason they know anything about the US is it's all over the news there. If European news received the same level of saturation here that American news does there, we'd know a lot more about Europe than we do.
No, Europeans are generally better informed especially on topics unrelated to the US so it isn't just them seeing news about the US on TV and instead they're just generally better educated and better informed.
Because we're idiots when it comes to anything outside of the US.
Yes. However, I'll bet these same idiots can tell you the last 10 American Idiol winners, by name and date of birth and celebrate some idiot Kardashian's birthday.
Reminds me of the classic Sopranos episode "Pine Barrens" where they were chasing the Russian guy through the woods...
Quote:
Tony Soprano: [over the phone] It's a bad connection so I'm gonna talk fast! The guy you're looking for is an ex-commando! He killed sixteen Chechen rebels single-handed!
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: Get the f**k outta here.
Tony Soprano: Yeah. Nice, huh? He was with the Interior Ministry. Guy's like a Russian green beret. He can not come back and tell this story. You understand?
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: I hear you.
[hangs up]
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: You're not gonna believe this. He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.
Christopher Moltisanti: His house looked like s**t.
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