Most Americans are illiterate and/or stupid. Discuss.?
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Byte Mi. I gut tu ta ferd grayed......
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because most are uneducated.
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here's one\nhttp://www.themorningnews.org/archives/opinions/is_illiteracy_so_bad.php\nand another one\nhttp://www.efmoody.com/miscellaneous/illiteracy.html
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coz america is a stupid country.
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Kudos for this question!\n\nWhen I read through some of the questions and answers on here, I often find myself grinding my teeth in frustration over the spelling and grammar of too many postings. It seems to me people lack pride, or they don't realize they are presenting themselves to the entire world as illiterate idiots. I also think too many kids/young adults today believe dumb is "cool" - guess what, kiddos, it's not!\n\nBut then again, after seeing a public school teacher (of all people!) in a news interview several years ago say that for her job, "I teaches English," I shouldn't be surprised....
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Because Americans are stupid...
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There are Idiots and really great people in every country in the world,Americans just seem to have more idiots because your country is much larger than European countries
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The problem is more dont vote than do its because of the dumbing down of a nation that wants to be a democracy but just doesnt have the interest of the people to really do it anymore .\n\nI think its social apathy and government encouraged dumbing down of America,dumb people are easier to manipulate.\n\nSome thirty million adults in the U.S. do not have the skills to perform even the most basic tasks such as adding numbers on a bank slip, identifying a place on a map, or reading directions for taking a medication. Eleven million Americans are totally illiterate in English.\nOnly twenty-nine percent of Americans have basic reading and computing skills. One out of every twenty Americans lacks the ability to understand what is going on in the world or to develop an informed opinion for voting.\n\nhttp://www.hermes-press.com/education_in...\n\nAmericans are far from alone in the world, but from the perspective of many young Americans, we might as well be. Most young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 demonstrate a limited understanding of the world, and they place insufficient importance on the basic geographic skills that might enhance their knowledge.\n\nYoung Americans answer about half (54 percent) of all the survey questions correctly. But by and large, majorities of young adults fail at a range of questions testing their basic geographic literacy.\n\nOnly 37% of young Americans can find Iraq on a map—though U.S. troops have been there since 2003.\n6 in 10 young Americans don't speak a foreign language fluently.\n20% of young Americans think Sudan is in Asia. (It's the largest country in Africa.)\n48% of young Americans believe the majority population in India is Muslim. (It's Hindu—by a landslide.)\nHalf of young Americans can't find New York on a map.\nThese results suggest that young people in the United States—the most recent graduates of our educational system—are unprepared for an increasingly global future. Far too many lack even the most basic skills for navigating the international economy or understanding the relationships among people and places that provide critical context for world events.\n\nAbout the Survey\n\nThe findings presented are the results of a face-to-face survey conducted from December 17, 2005, to January 20, 2006, by Roper Public Affairs and Media, a part of GfK NOP. This study is the latest in a series of surveys commissioned by the National Geographic Society. \n\nMany in power believe that deception of the American public is a legitimate way for them to achieve their plan. Bush's so-called "war on terror" is the cloak for a personal agenda ,but this form of manipulation has always been popular with governments because it works so well
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Actually, not all the rest of the world assume that all Americans are narrow minded and ignorant.\n   I don't deny that many many Americans are narrow minded and ignorant and that's not a result of anything but refusing to listen or to understand people's way of thinking, and I always say that there are many Americans who still think themselves living in the center of universe and refuse do dialog with other nations. That's a fact BUT>>>>>>>\n  I know many Americans here in Palestine, some of them are friends of mine, they are so nice and so open-minded because they saw they truth by their naked eyes and believed it. And even in USA itself I know there are millions of good Americans (such as you, and I really wish all people around this world have your ideology, we would never have problems!).\n   Even here, some people think all Americans are narrow-minded, and please don't blame them, because they're being killed by US arms used by Israelis, their homes are demolished by that Caterpillar. But believe me - in Palestine- a big majority sees many Americans as nice people.\n  Yazan, Palestine, 16 years old, school student.\n                                                                                 Regards.
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Probably they are illiterate, dumb, and ignorant. I guess you could say most of them are like G.W Bush with empty brain.
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I've asked this question.  Most people just don't care about their spelling, and they claim to be in too much of a hurry to use Spell Check.  They are idiots.
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why do non Americans ask stupid questions...? not all of them  of course...
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yeah, America is often viewed as the country filled with people who are uneducated and have no clue what is going on around them. \nI heard a comment from a comedian, he said,\n"As a whole the U.S. is a country filled with idiots, but as a whole they are genius; Russians on the other hand are all Einsteins, but as a whole you can't find a dumber group of people." \nIt's sad, but somehow true, for example, try asking an Average American what the capital of Italy is, or even France. Americans don't care about what is going n in Dafur, in fact 95% probably didn't even hear about the country. Or ask an American to place Iraq on the map... and we are at war with this country!\nThere is nothing that anyone can do about that. But the fact that we are the most individualistic country in the world has something to do with that. People just don't care, they would rather watch American Idol, then worry about what is going on in Congress. Arrogance... \n\nOne day the political arrogance and ignorance of the general population will get us into trouble...
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That's not a dumb question at all.  Yes, the spelling and grammar that I see online frightens me too.  I understand things like saying u instead of you or stuff like lol, because it's just to shorten things a bit.  But some of it is just plain lack of education, and that scares me.  Obviously, our country's education system just plain sucks.  Illiteracy is dangerous- without information, people do stupid things.  Without proper language skills, people have trouble getting jobs or functioning in life.  That illiteracy is so widespread today is sickening.  Even our President's grammar is horrible.  For example, "is our children learning?"  Evidently not.  This truly is the age of "every child left behind."
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I think that 90 percent of the people on the internet don't know how to spell or speak properly........thanks for helping to prove my point
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Are you being a smart A*% or are you just ignorant?
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not illiterate!!\njus uneducated...