Rostam said:On uni, are the ones in America really 'world class'? I never thought much of them, espescially because of the difficult way to get in one when you're poor.
Rostam said:My experience with a highschool in Texas was this: They would teach everything about the state and the country. I didn't read anything about... well, anything important. But the amount of information about all kind of stupid and sometimes small conflicts in which the US had a part was huge. I remembered thinking how small the world was, if you would be raised there.
Move to Canada.
Thats not true, I saw many reports about african conflicts in the past and present. German and french reporters traveled throught the lands, asking people, victims and so on. Saw many Chechniya reports, from russian and other reporters. Very informative, but you're right of course all that is the tip of the truth, they is so much unspoken, things I have no clue about.Nukeproof said:But in Europe it isn't that much better: I.e. when it comes to the continent of Afrika people have little to no dedicated knowledge (black primitive people who fight a war every now and then, Lions and elephants).
Nukeproof said:At the US Uni I went to (not quite elite) 70% in the postgrad programs were foreingners and in PHD even more...
I agree and I understand it's caused by the whole system. The US is so much focused on itself. Pupils have to know all the states and their capitols but know little to nothing about the rest of the world. 7 of 10 US americans will tell you, that the US is the best country of the world also they have never left it. (just like the Chinese students I talked to in China who insisted that Chinese food was the very best in the world although he never had anything but chinese food and a single Hamburger at MC Donalds )
I saw a statistic that foreign news is ranked on #20 just after news on aliens (which was 19) in the US and I tend to believe it. A few days after 9/11 (when I was in the US) there was hardly any news that the rest of the world evakuated towers, stalled all kind of airtraffic and hunted terrorists etc. as well - instead CNN was broadcasting melodramatic but pointless stories all day, that 8 year old Pauly was searching for her daddy the firefighter... it took me phonecalls of relatives and friends to actually recognize (although I was watching the news all day). You can't blame the individual for lack of knowledge if you get fed up with flawed information all the time.
But in Europe it isn't that much better: I.e. when it comes to the continent of Afrika people have little to no dedicated knowledge (black primitive people who fight a war every now and then, Lions and elephants).
Most humans are like sheeps and you can just govern them just like that... sad world
Psychomorph said:Thats not true, I saw many reports about african conflicts in the past and present. German and french reporters traveled throught the lands, asking people, victims and so on. Saw many Chechniya reports, from russian and other reporters. Very informative, but you're right of course all that is the tip of the truth, they is so much unspoken, things I have no clue about.
NTKB said:The sad part is that we have a whole generation of Arabs/Middle Easterners who are now being raised to specifically hate the US. This IMO is unprecedented and will cause major problems for the US in 20 or so years from now... Prepare your culos.
The US is so much focused on itself.
The typical highschool student blah blah blah...
But in Europe it isn't that much better: I.e. when it comes to the continent of Afrika people have little to no dedicated knowledge (black primitive people who fight a war every now and then, Lions and elephants).
The sad part is that we have a whole generation of Arabs/Middle Easterners who are now being raised to specifically hate the US.
Which capitol, flag or president do you know by heart?
Harrm said:It's the media who is too US-centric...since that's where the majority of the worlds' exposure to the US comes from. I mean, you speak as if Europe and the rest of the world isn't doing their part to contribute.
Nukeproof said:You can't blame the individual for lack of knowledge if you get fed up with flawed information all the time...
I saw a statistic that foreign news is ranked on #20 just after news on aliens (which was 19) in the US and I tend to believe it...
Nukeproof said:- An American student on campus asked my Australian mate why he spoke english so well... (after he just said he was from australia)
- One guy insisted that all "Porsche" are manufactured in Detroit...
- My roommate, who's minor was politics knew 1 foreign prime ministers in total, where I knew about 12 (not studying politics at all)
- The guestmother of an exchange student asked him wether we had television and electric power in Germany. He's guestbrother once asked wether this "Hitler" guy was still alive.
- One mate asked me wether I live at east or west coast of germany (and repetitively which "the good guys" during cold war were)
- One US student deemed me totally uneducated since I hardly knew any capitol of any of the US states but she had no clue which countries the EU consists of... (and regarded it as way less important).
Well, whatever the case, even stupid people can learn facts and say them out loud. The fact that they don't know these facts has nothing to do with their intelligence.
argument is piss poor since movies from other countries are bought just as easily.
the U.S. consists of the world and all the different nationalities
By the way, I like to believe that if fewer people in the US would be so ignorent that mass revolts would be a direct concequence.
I know a few Iranians that scored below average in Iran, but after they went to the US they were the top of their class. And yet, they are dumber now than they were in Iran. So I do like to blame the US education for that. The president taking away money from education and spending it on war doesn't do much good either.The US contains Americans. Or so the rest of the world likes to see it that way. I figure, if we take 200 immigrants from another country who are "stupid" and let them live here, we have 200 more stupid Americans.
Harrm said:The US contains Americans. Or so the rest of the world likes to see it that way. I figure, if we take 200 immigrants from another country who are "stupid" and let them live here, we have 200 more stupid Americans.
Harrm said:Nukeproof: I'd like to remind you, that you were in Virginia. Talk to Vlad from VA about it; he lives there.
And on copyright violations: Be assured, China is by far the largest offender. You can buy any kind of movies, music or software for about 1$ at allmost any corner in the big cities. Even those shops that look like a regular videostores will solely sell illegal copies - in fact it's close to impossible to buy 'legal' stuff overthere... Multiply this with 1.3 billion people and you get the picture... (and the chinese are even proud of the 'perfect' copies they can produce of almost everything)