Yep. Admit it folks. The majority of Americans, in comparison to the rest of the developed world, are not very smart.
I sat down with a friend studying abroad from Japan to talk about differences in culture the other day. She shared with me that before she came to the United States she had the preconceived notion that we were all idiots, I told her she was correct, and she let me know that she had found it to be largely correct. She mentioned that while the U.S. has far more "elites" than other countries, their average citizen was of far lower intelligence and was holding the elites back. There's ton's of things that are causing this, it's not just one, and I don't really have a solution prepared. I do know however that the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem, and while I see lots of news reports touting our idiocy, I still get the feeling we're all in denial. Admit it America, you are, on average, dumb as a bag of bricks. Let's both admit it to ourselves, and start educating ourselves.
I'm tired of having to apologize to other nations for the majority of our citizens.
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So I was just at a performance by the "Brass in Blue" they are a brass ensemble from the Air Force. It was the first time I heard the national anthem played live in a really long time. By that I mean I hadn't physically been at a performance of it in a while. I looked around at all the people in the audience and wondered what they were thinking. Then I realized this sounded like a bryce anderson blog. So Bryce what does the national anthem mean to you?
Nice, well said. I plan on making more elaborative comments in future.
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