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American Ignorance
| >>364990
Yes and all germans are nazis, all russians are communists and all muslims are terrorists. And america is the USA, a bright light of good in a evil, dark world full of enemies.
That's what I usually hear from people from the USA.
| Wow, just wow
| Yeah well, in a world where eighty percent of our population isn't being properly fed, clothed, housed, or treated in general, while twenty percent get clean water, nice clothes and an apartment, also while the creator of the video game Minecraft outbids Beyonce for a home over seventy times the amount of money I will ever make (excuse the runon sentence), things are unfair. The playing field is not leveled whatsoever, and there is great diversity to begin with.
| You wanna bash citizens for being ingorant but what do you expect? We're on danger/new/, we're spoiled. The only real issue with the US is that they aren't fixing the problems I listed above. Like, sure ignorance is bad, it's what's causing the eighty percent, but yelling at other about being ignorant DEFENITELY ins't productive. like fuck u think other countries dont have ignoranus people? if they're feeding their citizens and no one else they're exactly like the United States
| >>f6fe20 >>365083
most Muslims are in fact terrorists, I'm not American, i live in a muslim country as a non Muslim
| It's because we have an education system that decides books from the 50s are adequate material.
Which is to say, a fucking horrible education system.
| OP here.
>>365354
Having traveled around northern Africa I get the impression that most muslims who don't live in warzones are just trying to get by well, at most pushing an ideology.
>>365290
The fact is that the likes of us often don't grasp just how ignorant most folks are. I wouldn't have wanted to believe it if I'd been told I knew someone that blind to the world beyond their front yard, so I feel there is a point in remarking about it.
| Asked around today after hearing about this. Turns out I know someone who thought California was a country north of Montana & Canada was a state.
| >>365549
Not too different from non-Americans not knowing where Idaho is, for example.
When you live your whole life in a bubble, its easy to screw up geographical areas, even if said area is right next to your own home.
| I personally find that funny and disgusting at the same time, we live in the age of information, knowledge is just a few clicks away, the truth is that those blokes don't care, I say that because I live in the third world and had a sorry excuse for education, but manage to learn things by myself, and is saying that using english that learned with games, now, you want to tell me that folks in the first world with money and access to good education are ignorant not by choice, really?
| >>365962
This.
There was a thrad on Reddit a while back to the effect of "If you met a time traveler from ~1860, what'd be the hardest thing to explain to them about modern technology, culture, etc. The top voted answer was " Everyone you see around you has in their pocket at all times a device which allows them to access the sum total of human knowledge, & they use it to start arguments & look at photographs of cats."
| >>366913 Yeah...funny is it not? I mean humans are a little bit weird, we never had no much means of communication and we barely have actual conversation with people, we have tons of info and uninformed and silly folks, when we have heat we want cold and vice versa. Makes you think.
| >>365962 >>366913
The problem is not a matter of potential, but of want. Ignorance is an option people choose whether they're aware of it or not, and despite living in a third world country, you've clearly chosen to learn about things outside your own country.
I obviously have nothing to back this up, but I would venture to guess that when most people's needs are met, they don't have any natural inclination to learn for the sake of learning.
| So while they *could* use their immense 2018 resources to their fullest, they likely never would. A good example- just how many features on your device are you aware of/make use of? Do you use all of them? And if not, why?
Most likely its because whatever feature you *don't* use is not of any interest to you- and the same, I feel, can be said of the average person. Unless there is *want* involved, you can't convince someone to better themself outside of what they think they need
| to feel comfortable. Is that a good thing? I would say no. Others however have disagreed with me. Some people really are content with reaching a certain level financially, academically, politically and self-esteem wise, and never progress, not because they can't, but because they don't >want to.
| The trouble then with social change/bettering education is to convince people why they need to >care.
Motivation, et al.
| Yeah, I agree, I personaly try to see things in a more of a Nietzchian approach as in life is the will to power, and knowledge is a form of power in itself, knowing things put you in huge advantage of those who don't, but yeah if blokes are confortable they don't give a fuck, so yeah I agree we need struggle to grow, see those young sjw in the first world, they never had any issues to develop themselfs ao they create, but since they don't know how a real issue looks like
| They create a childish version of what a real problem looks like.
| I mean some people view Mexican as a language in Canada, theres ignorance everywhere.
| I'm an American, and i didn't even read this thread!
| Fuck America, fuck yeah!
| You think Americans are dumb try talking to rural Indians! Those people shit outside like aninals and think witches haunt the indoor toilets!
| >>368207 i think the thing with the u.s. is that it's largely willful ignorance. people wgo live in a country that, although shitty, has it better than 70% of the countries in the world have no excuse to act like their iq is in the negatives
| IQ is a spectrum and you will find the lower tail anywhere you go. Cherry picking is rude.
| IQ is useless.
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| US American here. I've said several times before here that most Americans are completely ignorant of life or events & countries that aren't the US, Mexico, Canada, China, Russia, & perhaps the UK.
I now must correct this statement.
I've separately met, in the last 24 hours, two individuals who were unaware even that Mexico & Canada were countries. Apparently they were under the delusion that when people referred to Mexico or Mexicans they were speaking of a town & its residents.