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iclim4 said:
akuma587 said:
Americans are stupid, trust me, I am one. We know less foreign languages than the rest of the world's citizens, our high school students perform less well measured by objective criteria than many foreign countries, and we elected someone like George Bush to office, TWICE.

I think we are getting smarter, but we are pretty damn dumb, especially the South (I live in the South).

hey speak for yourself, im american and i know 3 languages
plus i can understand basic chinese and also speak a little of it. j/k
though i did study in a different country, so i have no comment about highschools here.
but let me tell you the school i studied in starts teaching kids at the age of 3 and usually let kids graduate at the age of 16.
which is lot better than gratuating at the age of 18 here in the states IMO.

people here in the states are crazy in debt though.

its like they count and sell the chicks before the eggs even hatch.


 Intelligent and multilingual people are ALWAYS welcome in this country.  I think any people born in foreign countries have less of an inherent bias towards American culture and can see both the good and the bad, and are willing to change the bad.



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