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Geek Culture / [LOCKED] Rant #2: TALKING TO AMERICANS

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SnowBoardin360
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Posted: 18th Mar 2010 22:08
Have any of you Americans seen this? Im a Canadian and I think this is pretty sad, do all americans think like this? i'm not trying to sound mean but this is VERY sad. Im not saying all of you are like this, infact I know that many arent, but wow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZpjtagJ-0w

watch the whole thing before you reply.

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Insert Name Here
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Posted: 18th Mar 2010 22:11
Is this Rant #n thing gonna become a series or something? 'Cuz I'm happy to stop at two, if that's fine with you and everything.

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DJ Almix
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Posted: 18th Mar 2010 22:18
I think that these rant things will be locked

Although I live in American and (I'm not since I lived in Europe and liked it better) sadly are very ignorant, and really don't have anything clue about the world around us...

SnowBoardin360
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Posted: 18th Mar 2010 22:20
Quote: "Is this Rant #n thing gonna become a series or something"


uh, yeah maybe.

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SnowBoardin360
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Posted: 18th Mar 2010 22:21 Edited at: 18th Mar 2010 22:24
well DJ just so you know we do not live in igloos, haha

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heyufool1
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Posted: 18th Mar 2010 22:24
Well I live in America (and always have) and well, we aren't dumb and I guess you can call us ignorant. Although so far in my years of public education no one has taught us or covered anything relating to other countries other then those that we fought in a war with. The only exception is if you take a language course (I take German), so for obvious reasons I didn't do anything relating to Canada... yet.

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SnowBoardin360
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Posted: 18th Mar 2010 22:26 Edited at: 18th Mar 2010 22:26
I don't think you are dumb, well most of you, but yeah just ignorant, and we're learning about, atleast a little bit; about alot of countries.

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Tom J
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Posted: 18th Mar 2010 22:26
Quote: "uh, yeah maybe."


Nobody wants to read rants for the sake of reading rants, let alone read rants. If you catch the drift.
SnowBoardin360
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Posted: 18th Mar 2010 22:28
Quote: "Nobody wants to read rants for the sake of reading rants, let alone read rants. If you catch the drift"


hm, then why did you look at this?

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Posted: 18th Mar 2010 22:28 Edited at: 18th Mar 2010 22:30
And I don't think this will get locked, it's not breaking any rules.

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Tom J
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Posted: 18th Mar 2010 22:30
Quote: "hm, then why did you look at this?"


To make this comment, the "Rant#2" bit drew me in, because it implied you were making a series of rants, for no reason.
Insert Name Here
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Posted: 18th Mar 2010 22:34 Edited at: 18th Mar 2010 22:35
I learnt an interesting thing about stereotypes the other day - you know how the British are always thought to have bad teeth? It turns out that actually Britain has the best standard of teeth in the entire world. Yup, not only do we not have the worst teeth, we actually have the best.

Stereotyping without substantial evidence for generalisations is foolish.

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SnowBoardin360
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Posted: 18th Mar 2010 22:41
Quote: "you know how the British are always thought to have bad teeth? It turns out that actually Britain has the best standard of teeth in the entire world. Yup, not only do we not have the worst teeth, we actually have the best."


I never believed you guys had bad teeth, but the video proves it, it's not fake.

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Posted: 18th Mar 2010 22:46 Edited at: 18th Mar 2010 22:47
Congratulations, You won the title- WHO THE HELL CARES?

Great work, pat yourself on the back.

Did you actually think before you posted this thread?

humph.

People will take intrest in the things that effect them, your just singling out the enclosed ones and begging for a uproar.

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Posted: 18th Mar 2010 22:47
So ummm, you're basing your opinion on a few select ignorant people, who have clearly been part of much larger sample which has then been edited down just to show those who were stupid?

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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 18th Mar 2010 22:47 Edited at: 18th Mar 2010 22:50
These kind of videos annoy me. Yes, there are many stupid and ignorant people in the US, but that doesn't mean everyone is. While making these videos how do you know they didn't have to ask 5 people the same question before they got someone with a stupid answer that they could put into the video? I feel sure I could compile the same kind of stupid answers in any country. Ironically by posting something like this, you only demonstrate your own ignorance in believing that most Americans are like that.

Our education system is strange here, we have several different levels of difficulty in our classes throughout school before university (at least 2, sometimes 3), it all really depends on what classes you (or your parents) choose for you to take. The differences between what we call "regular", "honors", and "advanced placement classes" are immense in terms of the quality of education and learning environment and the intelligence of your peers. So, yes, those who go through the lower education track will likely end up ignorant and stupid, but they had a chance to take more difficult and better classes that would make them much more educated.


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Posted: 18th Mar 2010 23:31
Doesn't matter what country you go to, walk down the main street and interview random people, and every single one will be an idiot.

They will not show unfunny clips - so you only see the idiots. But the main thing is that who on earth has the time to talk to a camera crew during the day. It would be nice to see them do that where your actual average person would be at that time - at work.


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