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Originally Posted by Spark910
Yeah, stupid is the wrong word. Esentially, it is as if a significant number are wearing horse blinders so they don't take notice of the rest of the world. But the same happens in England, with people from London.
Esentially, there is everything you need in America for a lifetime, and everything in London for a lifetime that you could easily live your life without knowledge of the world as a whole (for the american criticism) or the rest of England (for Londoners). The attitude here is usually "well why would I know about ___ or have been to ___ when I live in London, everythings in London"
I guess ignorance of things outside their percieved perimiters would be a good way to describe it too.
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Many Americans are marked by a lack of intellectual acuity, due to, as you basically said, everything being handed to them on a silver platter. To me, a lack of intellectual acuity is the same thing as stupid and I think the dictionaries would agree. It's not only academic behavior, but also their lack of awareness that makes it blatantly clear to me that the American population is one of the dullest populations of people in the entire planet, especially my generation. This is getting off-topic though... it would be nice if people could actually have their own setting to change the date display, but I'm sure that's probably not going to happen.