Museum of Ignorance debuts: how stupid are Americans?

This reminds me of Rick Mercer's Talking to Americans, funny stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhTZ_tgMUdo

I am so ashamed to be an American right now...

Please remember that this is a videotaped, edited program where they picked out the dumbest of responses and ran with it. There could well have been a lot of right answers given during their interviewing, but they never show that, do they? If *I* had been asked, for example, I would have mentioned Ukraine as a 'U' country, that nobody was left in the Coalition of the Willing, and that a cheese omelet rocks. No, wait...

Yeah, I'm thinking they harvested the worst answers, but it's still amazing to hear the bazaar misconceptions in some people's minds. Maybe most of these people don't bother to vote or don't know how. Please let this be true. But then, wasn't there a senator who did not know the three major cultural groups in Iraq? That's even worse than wacky people on the street not knowing where the bomb was dropped or what religion a Buddhist monk is. They should have asked that girl to draw that one-sided triangle, though. Coulda been interesting.

I'd be interested to see a video of Ukrainians answering the same questions.

People are stupid everywhere, it's true. But unfortunately, American ignorance has a proportionately powerful influence, like, say, by electing a president who's a Moron-American himself, who then preys on the ignorance of the populace by doing things like starting wars -- with the support of the majority of those ignoramuses -- in places they can't even find on a map.

True. Best thing about US: everyone gets a vote. Worst thing about US: everyone gets a vote. "It is a sad commentary on the ineptness of democracy that, come election day, my vote carries no more weight than yours." - Russell Mires

Were the interviewees on You Tube's ignorance extravaganza really all they had or were they selected for their funny answers? Canuck

I guess the people from powerful cultures consider themselves normative and don't feel the need to know much about anybody else. We who sleep next to the elephant have to be vigilant lest it roll over on us. Canuck

This is not so strange. Jay Leno does this regularly in his "Jay Walking" segment. It always makes me laugh with grief.

This is not so strange. Jay Leno does this regularly in his "Jay Walking" segment. It always makes me laugh with grief.

Yeah, but he's walking around LA. LA's filled with freaks. That's right. I went there. (And yes, if they got Ken Jennings or someone like myself and interviewed any of us, our footage would end up on the cutting room floor.)