iamtheoneneo wrote:
theres a famous cnn video where they interview american people and ask them about the world and what are threats. it surprised me very much in the fact that 90% of the people thought iraq was australia and the fact that some of them saw france as somewhere to bomb. quite disgusting really - some americans are blatently arrogant to the point of stupidity. i no some americans (being in the uk) there nice people, but hey who knows what the rest of the country is like.
there are various degrees of stupidity.
Ofc each one of those has a difrent degree of importancy to everyone.
Like i know alot about PCs i know alot fo people that dont does it make them stupid?
Like i had french for 3 years and stil only know 4 words but do speak 3 other languages fluently and read and write them. does it make me stupid? yeha in a way it does
3 fecking years man.
Or i dont know jackshit about sailing so people that do know alot about it wil say im stupid.
But tbh i do have to say that most people should be able to point out Australia on a map, simply cause its huge and is at a certain position on the map dito for other countrys wich r big and have a distinctive shape or are at a certain area of a continent.
now if people dont know wich one is Switzerland or Austria i think thats normal.
i think the main reason the US havent had any wars on their own soil since the civil war is simply cause of their size, and the fact that their neighbours arent hostile or cant afford a large scale war or never had the intentions or drive todo so.
the countrys that did have intentios for possible war were far away with an ocean inbetween.
Europe is a continent with alot of countrys wich have almost complet access over land to eachother.
All of those countrys (speciale in the 1800s and early 1900s) had their own customs and own habbits and believes and things that motivated them and got isnulted easily.
The US nvr had such things and so nvr had war on the own turf.
Imagin each US state being their own country have a difrent culture etc then ims hure the US would have also had alot of wars.
The fact that the US got conolized by Europeans etc and that all states got shaped as states under 1 flag minilized the chances for them togo to war, and the sheer amount of immigrants speeding up conolisation to the west made shure that other new conolized countrys could nvr afford a war even if having the intentions.
Wel until the civil war.