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    tomsdesk
    last edited by 29 Aug 2008, 13:16

    I think the video does portray the "average" american...or close to it. Depending on the types of TV programs they watch, other "average" folks would probably have had the answers to those questions...but would have failed equally on others of similar difficulty. (I couldn't answer a couple of them either...but I didn't think it was funny: so in that sense I guess I'm not really "average".)

    I wouldn't call this stupidity either, I'd call it ignorance. (Some of the folks shown would surely have shined if asked about what they care about.) There are a lot of reasons we americans are ignorant, some somewhat understandable, some not so much...but the bottom line: we better get with it soon.

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      Marian
      last edited by 29 Aug 2008, 14:04

      we can blaim it on ignorance when it's about europe and other countries or policies of the US..but come on, you don't know where KFC comes from but you know that it means; kentucky fried chicken....and the question with countries starting with "U" ok you don't know Ukraine and Uganda but...you live in the US and say Yugoslavia....
      What i wanted to point out is there is an ounce of stupidity there not just ignorance.

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        cheffey
        last edited by 29 Aug 2008, 14:09

        My friends and I were talking about our kids the other day. We mentioned a standard test that they've all recently taken. When I mentioned my son scored over 4 times the benchmark for all scores they were looking for some magic reason as to why he did so well.
        Is he just gifted? How did he score so high?
        Truth is I think he's around the same intelligence that his mom and dad are (which I consider average... ok above average) but the exception is we read a minimum 15minutes a day to him and then discuss it. Whenever he has a question, we explain it. So, he maybe smarter and look better in the scores, but it's mostly due to his own hard work.

        I'd love to say it's not the average american in the video, but I think that is the average american. I think we need to turn our focus inward a bit. Let the world take care of itself and let's take care of us for awhile. Like Barack said "Lead by the power of our example, rather than the example of our power."

        I think we have lost that here. The entitlement culture has consumed us and it only helps the lobbyist and lawyer types. I think we can learn a lot from tv, if we'd only watch things with some educational value. Instead we get caught up in ridiculous shows like watching d-list celebs dance or some random teenage 16th birthday. I mean really who gives a shit about that. I'm much more interested into what makes Putin tick. What molded him to be the way he is or how it was that John Adams was able to hold a fragile group of colonists together to help form a country.
        I think Marian is right, there is some truth in the ounce of stupidity argument. What continues to boggle my mind is how people cannot care to even be somewhat interested in the world they live in.

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          REGIS
          last edited by 30 Aug 2008, 22:56

          @ pav_3j

          @unknownuser said:

          there are three kinds of people in this world, those that are stupid, and those that aren't.

          And so, who's the third category

          cheers

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            pilou
            last edited by 30 Aug 2008, 23:15

            @unknownuser said:

            And so, who's the third category

            that is the exact definition of the laugh! 😄

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              REGIS
              last edited by 30 Aug 2008, 23:29

              @ pilou
              👍 🤣
              why not

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                Hazza
                last edited by 1 Sept 2008, 02:50

                @gaieus said:

                Now as I think of it, I would probably fail to name more than just a couple of state capitals in the USA.

                So you can name a few STATE capitals and she doesn't even know that France is a COUNTRY.... mmmm me thinks that is big difference.

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                  Al66
                  last edited by 3 Sept 2008, 12:47

                  mmmm i think... mmmmmm she is frommmm South mmmm America
                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZABeQ5vkpXM&feature=related

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                    Al66
                    last edited by 3 Sept 2008, 13:00

                    is he ?
                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC73JqlF4jU&feature=related

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                      Matt666
                      last edited by 3 Sept 2008, 14:38

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                        pbacot
                        last edited by 3 Sept 2008, 14:57

                        Original clip. This one woman, obviously undereducated, didn't know much about geography, but the kids knew it.

                        The US does indeed have a poor educational system, but this clip doesn't reflect it as much as showing how some people will be willfully ignorant. I think it has more to do with filling your head with nonsense, rather than knowing something about the world. Some people have little curiosity about anything outside their neighborhood, it seems. I don't understand it. Since I was a kid I loved maps and stories about far away places. Jay Leno's man-on-the-street segments are funnier.

                        Euros on the otherhand can't turn around without tripping on another country. It's definitely a different mindset.

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                          PeterCharles
                          last edited by 3 Sept 2008, 17:49

                          I'm told that if you want to see stupid British people live on tv then tune into "Big Brother"!
                          http://www.channel4.com/bigbrother/

                          Personally I think it joins the rest of the tv soaps as "the opiate of the masses".

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                          • david_hD Offline
                            david_h
                            last edited by 3 Sept 2008, 18:26

                            This Bimbette was only ON The show in the first place because she is such an idiot. It makes for much better television to see some fluffhead look stupid in front of 50 million people and hope she wins $25K for charity. It's Entertainment! Why do you think that the "Jay Walking" segments on Leno are so funny? You notice they didn't ask Jeanne Kirkpactrick, or Madeline Albright to come on to play for their favorite charities.

                            It doens't reflect poorly on American Education . .but it doesn't say a whole lot for American Entertainment.

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                              pbacot
                              last edited by 6 Sept 2008, 06:07

                              @unknownuser said:

                              Why do you think that the "Jay Walking" segments on Leno are so funny?

                              Well, I find it surprising people don't know some things that seem quite common. It is just a surprise and that surprise is part of comedy. Then Jay leads them along and his expressions are funny. Sorry... I'm not ridiculing the people or putting them in a class etc. I'm sure he picks out the "best" ones. And the people are having fun talking to a celebrity.

                              As for what I think of American entertainment: I don't have a TV. I actually haven't seen that show for years.

                              But I do think education has been better. Especially here in California. You're right the TV segments don't prove anything on that score.

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                              • boofredlayB Offline
                                boofredlay
                                last edited by 7 Sept 2008, 02:59

                                My wife loves to watch Food Network. Some of the shows are entertaining but while walking past the TV tonight she was watching Iron Chef America. I kid you not, they did a slow motion "Instant Replay" of a guy scraping a piece of fish... Now where did I place my book?

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                                  Alan Fraser
                                  last edited by 7 Sept 2008, 07:25

                                  @unknownuser said:

                                  I kid you not, they did a slow motion "Instant Replay" of a guy scraping a piece of fish.

                                  I don't see what's wrong with that. He was just demonstrating the correct use of the Scale tool. 😉

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                                  • david_hD Offline
                                    david_h
                                    last edited by 8 Sept 2008, 14:13

                                    I guess I would really be concerned if on "5Th Grader" the contestant dumps it on the first grade level and That person is a TEACHER.

                                    Be afraid. . .be very afraid.

                                    If I make it look easy...It is probably easy

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                                    • ely862meE Offline
                                      ely862me
                                      last edited by 24 Dec 2010, 10:02

                                      I wouldnt name that stupidity....i would name it INDIFFERENCE...Why?
                                      Maybe i'm not right but,for lot of time and still ,they think like this: If we are on a floating boat,everything is cool(so we don
                                      t care that Europe is a continent and France is in Europe not in Australia).

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