Originally posted by All Creatures Great And Small
Hey, no generalizing here about us horrid Americans! I don't think ALL Americans are ignorant. I think there is a percentage of ignorant persons in ANY country, just like there are wonderfully intelligent, insightful, educated, culturally diverse people in every country.
Well, the fact is sadly that the majority of Americans are ignorant, moreso than any other country I know of.

Most Americans know nothing about the outside world, nor do they care (which is even worse). When I lived in California the most common question I got was "Where's Sweden?".

I belive that if September 11th happened in... let's say Reykjavik, I doubt anyone in the USA would have known or really cared that much, nor would they be talking about it and posting memorials years after. And yet we are all human beings and deserve to be remembered.

There was a reaserch done a while ago, concerning USA's geography. Turned out the kids in Europe did better than the kids in the USA.

Americans tend to know very little, next to nothing, about other cultures or religions nor respect them. I was called a "devil worshipper" and a "heathen" by a pastor in California because I said I found Shintoism very interesting and a better religion that Christianity.

How many Americans think about all the innocent people that died in Afghanistan in the aftermath of September 11th? Most people seem to think they are all just little Bin Laden copies and think it "suits them right" (actual quote from an American I spoke to once).

I really could go on forever...