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The missus wants to know " Why are Americans so ignorant?"

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10/27/2009 8:25 PM

Re: The missus wants to know " Why are Americans so ignorant?"

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OP, forgive the defensiveness of the Americans posting here. Even though most GLPers are more aware than their ignorant fellow Americans, they're still sensitive about Americans being called out for their ignorance in general.

I think many Americans are ignorant because of a lot of factors: the educational system; the prevalence of pop culture; the dislike and distrust of scientists and intellectuals.

Charlotte Iserbyt has a lot of things to say about the "dumbing down" of America. Your wife should check out Iserbyt's work:

[link to www.deliberatedumbingdown.com]

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OP lives in Texas...so why are you discluding him?

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10/27/2009 8:50 PM

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It bothers me too that so many adults younger than boomers have absolutely no common sense, can't spell, have lousy grammar and punctuation, etc.
Pardon me, GLP'rs who mostly abound in it.
Well, except for those who can't spell moron. hehe

They came up with the TV for babysitters. I've noticed more and more that even TV anchors are putting 'at' at the end of sentences, speak in the wrong verb tense, and generally drive me up the walls.

Such as, "Where are you at?" AAGGGHHHHH! Hillbilly backwoods no education speak.
It's "Where are you?" See?
Proper grammar is almost musical. Bad grammar is like hitting the wrong notes deliberately.

But, my Brit friends, instead of saying for example, 'learned' which is proper English, you say 'learnt' which sounds very uneducated. Just sayin'.

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10/27/2009 9:20 PM

Re: The missus wants to know " Why are Americans so ignorant?"

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She gets pissed off everyday over the stupidity she hears all around her! Any thoughts as to the cause?

Quoting: PatrikC325

No mystery.

An 'education' system designed not to educate, but rather to produce obedient, non-thinking Drones who would be just smart enough to push the knobs that keep the Plantation running but too dumbed down to figure out we are slaves with no real rights.

A few of us escaped, but for the most part you and your wife are surrounded by shining success stories of the above system.

Fools must learn from experience.

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