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  • I'm afraid americans do not exist. The reason why america is so far (maybe not anymore when you look at china) ahead of any other country is because SOME people are good at what they do and because of the raw resources available.

    I'm from Italy, and I know loads of italian scientists made lots of things possible and gave their contributions there (Enrico Fermi was the head of the team who developed the first nuclear bomb, just to mention one name among many). But the average american is ignorant

  • @AllMightyMaze it is still an area.of the world, 2 continents combined infact, it's like saying someones from tge middle east.

  • probably wake up after China and India rule the world (LOL)... oh wait, its already happening..

  • They're all talking about Americans. But lets be correct its the United States and not America. America is so much more than a country full of Homer Simpsons and Lindsey Lohans...

  • America wake up your government are the real terrorists.

  • Americans are so dumb! You all want to fight terrorism and don't even know who the terrorists are? I'm lucky for not being american!

  • what country do you live

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  • Alot of americans are ignorant, racist and corrupted

  • What an unbelievable country, the US.

    I think it would be great to live there but their politics are criminal.

    Glad with the upcoming divide of power, there needs to be balance in the world.

  • @piootje

    "I think it would be great to live there"

    Halve zool...

  • i am from the U.K. trust me there are no stupid people here

  • @jsmith198108080081 Thanks :)

  • I think if people in Britain were asked similar questions they often wouldn't have the answers. We get away with less critiscism because we are less in the international public eye. Just throwing that out there as I see a lot of my fellow Brits like to troll by insulting Americans!

  • 0:41 <for real?i can draw the entire world geography and 50% political map from my memory,and i had 3(C in american) mark from geography.im european.

  • @beni1645 i agree im from the uk too

  • We are not dumb, we are misinformed by our own government and media. I think it's really unfair to generalize an entire nation for a few bad apples. You're going to get that in any country and every race so stop spreading hate and do something about it.

  • @XxAtomVinterxX

    "so stop spreading hate and do something about it. "

    lol

  • @XxAtomVinterxX bloody bs mate, im from the uk,we could have beaten you if it wasnt for those medling french.

  • Americans,They are fucking dumb rednecks I am fighting with this bitch that thinks The USA can rule the world ....Yeah good fucking luck bitch

  • @hiroshikazaki17 i agree im from the uk

  • @jsmith198108080081 You're not from the UK

  • It's not that americans are stupid, it's just that americans idiots seems to get more tv time.

  • Americans..the most ignorant people in the world

  • @Orcsmashurbelf That's very ignorant of you to generalise..

  • @Orcsmashurbelf So damn true

  • I love the amount of uneducated idiots who in their own turn think that they have the right to insult Americans. America is extremely uneducated, but if we are all as dumn as you perceive, then why the hell do you follow us like puppies, why do we have the most powerful economy in the world (China's is fastest growing)? I vouch that only 30% of you will be able to answer 2simple questions without using an internet source: What was London originally named and how did the present jihad begin?

  • @ujigls Londinium and the present jihad is because past jihad stated that people can fight to protect themselves and they feel threatened by western life. I'm 14 and didn't use the internet.

  • @ujigls lol you spelt "dumb" wrong

  • @ujigls hate to be a dick but you spelt *dumb* wrong...

  • @ujigls "but if we are all as dumn as you perceive"

    dumn?

  • @ujigls 1 londinium 2 this is not a valid question but i try to answer it anyway.there is no clear date to when a bunch of muslims started to hate western civilisation but my bet is in the 50s 60s when israel got established with heavy western support.correct?

  • American is stupid,,,,

    Are you mad?

  • Stupid enough to watch CNN.

  • How is CNN exculpating themselves from the Iraq debachle. They were banging the war drum just as hard as every other MSM outlet. Shameless, fucking cocksuckers. Maybe if the media overall functioned as a little more than a mouthpiece for crooked politicians and celebrity worship, people would be better informed. What a disgrace!

  • yeah we sound dumb

  • @btaw @JoeyCMarchio Stop fighting :|

  • @Blacuchops Are you mad?

  • "we're out of time" i just felt like cutting his throat when he said that..

  • I wonder why Ron Paul isn't winning.

  • @JoeyCMarchio Because he's an idiot

  • @btavv How so?

  • @JoeyCMarchio Because he's an idiot like you. You both still don't understand that many powers in the US will never allow him to win.

  • @btavv You keep saying stupid and making claims, but you can't say why.

  • @JoeyCMarchio I just explained lol! Do I really have to go into more detail dummy? If the Constitution were to be followed, then the corporate elite would lose their hold over Washington and the peasants would actually have some power. Got it now? I have nothing against Ron Paul you fool, you're just seeing an enemy behind every door.

  • @JoeyCMarchio You're also an idiot to believe that a single man can change the country. Trust me.....the American president is as much of a puppet as Ahmadinejad in Iran.

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  • What else should I call people who make the most illogical decisions/comments?

    Bush election 2004, his approval ratings were lower than ever, yet the majority still decided to give him a second term > idiots

    You think that Ron Paul can win > idiot

    You think that a single man can change your country > idiot

    Some of you think that 911 was a conspiracy > idiots

    You automatically assume that I'm an American, when you know nothing about me: idiot, since I'm not American

  • Using every video to promote Ron Paul > idiot

    Have fun with your fucked up country and believing that ONE man can change it all or that America is as powerful as it used to be or will be again. Stop believing in fairy tales son, wake up before it's really too late.

    Bye

  • @btavv It's like yelling at a baby to stop crying.

  • Perfect demo of how stupid CNN anchors are me thinks.

  • WTF? Only 50% of the country can name at least 2 Simpsons family members?

  • AHhhh!! i forgot the three houses...someone help please...

  • Did he get the stats and percentages from a national census or did he pull them out of his arse? What was the sample size for the "2 out of 5 Americans can name the three branches of the Federal Government"? Did he ask five Americans? Without that kind of information this whole thing is dubious. lol

  • @UnitedKingdomify He doesn't exactly have the time to say that on live television. Going as fast as he did, he was still cut off at the end.

  • @flagman57 Takes half a minute to say, "In a survey of X people." Or, "In a study conducted by X university, involving X numbers of Americans, from X number of states, X didn't know whatever... about whatever."

    He was quick to give statistics, but so are shampoo commercials when they say "four in five women prefer it over other brands", and in small print it says "In a survey of 70 women". lol

  • @UnitedKingdomify I'm sure you'll be able to find his findings somewhere on the internet.

  • @Bizzenji Yeah you're probably right, I'll have to check it out. There are multiple factors though, and it is a country of 300 million+ people. Only a percentage of whom actually turn up at the ballot box to vote. Perhaps the people making up the statistics in the study are in the non-voting %.

    It's an obvious statement that an under or uneducated populace makes for a poor democracy - but this guy has all his work ahead of him to prove that the United States is populated by idiots that vote.

  • @stonewalljackson26 Oh what now, you are going to use history to explain the economic collapse now?

  • @stonewalljackson26 Hmm, I don't mind using a couple of vulgar words on you since you are so ignorant and stubborn. Where are people blaming Americans? It's the government were blaming you stupid fuck. Oh and go ahead and type in more information about unrelated history in the past dumbass

  • Too quote J. Nicholson. " We live in a world that has walls, and those walls must be defended by men with guns."

  • @StonewallJackson26

    "TOO quote J. Nicholson" > epic grammar fail

  • When Wars and Genocides break out. Who is the first country that is called upon? What country does the UN look to first? What country has given more blood, sweat, money and tears quelling foreign conflicts, than Americans? You live in a box! I suggest you subscribe to the History Channel, or become a subscriber of a history magazine. You are either very dumb, or you have a looming agenda that manipulates your train of thought. Either way, you shouldn't be so harsh on Americans.

  • @StonewallJackson26

    "WHO is the first country that is called upon?" > grammar fail

  • @stonewalljackson26 You're hilarious man. That is not even close to the fact why Americans are occupying and setting up bases in 63 countries, not 90 you ignorant american. You talk about empires and history when this is happening now. Why are they doing it, you may ask? CONTROL THE WORLD ECONOMY AND ITS FINANCIAL MARKETS, TAKE OVER NATURAL RESOURCES, GEOPOLITICAL OUTREACH.

    Some of you are a disgrace to your own country. Who denies the truth about their country? Unpatriotic AMERICANS

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  • If America really wanted to be assholes and if they were a malevolent empire, the US would have annexed Western Europe and ruled it for themselves. America would have done the same with Japan and the rest of the territories they liberated. Instead America gave them back to their rightful owners, and currently have no control over their politics. America is an Empire, not doubt. But OVERALL, America is a benevolent Empire. This is what I believe.

  • @StonewallJackson26 1917 is when the Russia Revolution took place BTW. Now research the american occupancy of countries. I am done speaking to you but you make keep making replies if you wish. I certainly hope that you get your facts straight and realize that you may be typing something uncontrary to what the person is saying.

  • C communist

    N ews

    N etwork

    Nothing on CNN is fair or balanced. It is a channel full of Progressives. They would never air a show like this while Obama is in office. This is 5 years old here. CNN had been trying to get Obama elected. Most media besides FOX turned against Americans while Bush was in office.

    DON'T TRUST CNN. All their polls are false.

  • @StonewallJackson26 What about fox? :P

  • CHUCK NORRIS IS GOD

  • AMERICA IS THE WORST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD

  • @youraposer1 America is a continent. U must be American.

  • @youraposer1 America isn't a country. You're probably british since you didn't know that. They always refer to our country as "America"....when really, we live in the United States of America. America is a continent, not a country.....just saying.

  • @siberia888

    "United States of America"

    United? rotflmao

  • @CrlMos I don't get the joke.

  • This is happening oll over the world. People only care about shit like lady gaga and the last scandal of of Paris Hilton. Tings that mater are consider "boring".

  • The land with the biggest dubbelstandard as well no doubt!,,,-Al country that has craved opium for the masses and the industri have deliverd that big time to them, instead of facts and knowledge!!

  • I wouldn't hate America if it didn't have an effect on EVERY other country in the world, which is chosen by seemingly uncaring stupid people. I hate the fact they drag us into needless wars, and that they would be considered a rouge state if they weren't a superpower. From UK

  • Sadly too many Americans engrossed with Sports & Reality TV who miss the big picture. Not enough folks who care much for American History & the Poltical Climate at those times that came together for better or ill to determine our future as a country. LOW INFO voters or people who JUST DON"T CARE ENOUGH to educate themselves before making a voting choice. Welcome to America in the 21st Century (laughs). Just because you can't become a Millonare studying American/World History the intrest = 0.1%.

  • Funny how Shenkman is cut off before making his point. Part of the ever growing ignorance can certainly be chalked up to an ever growing illiteracy effected by the rise of TV. It's a fact that more people today are 'informed' by TV than by newspapers, books, or print in general. But TV as a medium simply can't sustain complex thinking of any sort; great thinking goes on in great books. TV informs by images and sound bites: a 2 minute talking head sandwiched between a 1 minute commercial break.

  • Half of the people who say Americans are dumb, come from countries that have contributed nothing to the world. I here this same slant from a lot of Aussies. Yet Aussies originate from criminals, sent there because they were unwanted. Name a significant Australian invention?

  • @StonewallJackson26 The refrigerator, you ever used one of those? Electric drill, first patent seen in Melbourne. Refrigeration of food, made it possible to ship food from Australia to the UK. Also the speedos (swimwear) originates from Australia! I take it you're American? :)

  • @StonewallJackson26 You would be correct. The US has been the center of innovation ever since the Industrial Revolution. No other country come close, maybe Germany and Japan deserve an honorable mention.

  • @IndianPrince04

    "No other country come close"

    Because there aren't many countries that have the benefit of the English language combined with 310million people, almost 4 times larger than the largest country in Europe. Things need to be looked at per capita. Per capita you won less Nobel prizes than Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, England, Switserland, etc.

  • @Px017 Invented youtube,google,facebook, most social networks people are using now a days, Contributed the most to natural disaster causes like Japan's tsunami, haiti earthquake, First to went to the moon, First to make a Nuke, Strongest economy in the world. bigger than the world's economy combined. Strongest military in the world, No one comes close.

  • Do you have a small penis?

    

  • @Mtbior Is your IQ higher than that of a 10 year old?

  • @khon123456 I ask again; do you have a small penis?

  • @Mtbior Man penis size matters to you doesnt it? Does it make you feel better about your size knowing other people's size? you must have a real small penis/ self esteem as well. Work on it

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  • @StonewallJackson26 Now you sound like a 10 year old claiming that he beat up a 21 year old in a fight, but you refused to mention that you got the help of 12 friends.

  • @Px017 Dumb argument.

  • @StonewallJackson26 ..this argument is not dumb..you obviously are completely ignorant of the contributions that many people from all a lot of countries have made to the world.

  • @StonewallJackson26 'Half of the people who say Americans are dumb, come from countries that have contributed nothing to the world'...in order to have made this statement you would have to be truly American

  • @marmackk Too say All Americans are dumb takes a truly ignorant person.

  • @StonewallJackson26 Not really, although you should know that we don't mean it literally, you should know that you guys are fucking the rest of the world. You are truly ignorant for not understanding the context of the statement.

  • @unhealthycarrot There is dumbasses anywhere you go. I wouldn't trust CNN as far as I can throw them. How exactly is American "fucking the rest of the world?"

    I am so tired of America being blamed for everything. I am tired of hearing people abroad try to shame me for being American. Guess what? I am American AND proud. And you should be proud of where you are from. I would never try to shame you for your nationality.

  • @StonewallJackson26 Did you not understand what I said, what are you trying to claim?... I'm just saying your GOVERNMENT is occupying too many countries right now. Then they brainwash you and mislead you into thinking faulty information. You are proud of America right now? You guys are in a mess! Go vote for Ron Paul, save the constitution, ends wars, stop terrorizing other countries, promote freedom, promote liberty, stop the drug wars, educate yourself about the government.

  • @stonewalljackson26 Yes, I am fortunate to live in a developed country but I am not always proud of where I am from nor I should be. If your country screws up, there's nothing to be proud of. And you said something about shaming nationality? LOL, I'm not shaming anybodys nationality. I am stating the fact that American politicians are screwing up hard.

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  • @stonewalljackson26 You disgust me man. Why are you asking me whether if I rather be in the Soviet of American empire? What the fuck does that have to do with American politicians failing to do the right thing? Are you claiming that they are making the right choices?

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  • @StonewallJackson26 I couldn't agree more with your post. There are stupid people everywhere...they just point fingers at us when really they should be blaming their past leaders and shitty governments for all their problems. I'm American too, and damn proud of it. 

  • @marmackk ..no one is saying all Americans are dumb ,people are saying that a lot of Americans are ignorant..

  • Are these the same dumb Americans that went to the moon? Played a major role in delivering the free world from Fascism in WW2. Are these the same dumb Americans that invented human flight or the light bulb? Are these the same dumb Americans who discovered electricity and invented the personal computer? Are these the same dumb Americans who invented the internet? You morons who say Americans are stupid don't think before you speak.

  • @StonewallJackson26

    "Americans that invented human flight "

    Many claim that Brazilian Santos Dumont did.

    "Are these the same dumb Americans who discovered electricity"

    Americans never did, it's actually unknown who did

    "Americans that went to the moon"

    They were able to because they had German Werner Von Braun and his team.

    "and invented the personal computer"

    The world's first program-controlled computer was build by German Konrad Zuse

  • @Px017

    "or the light bulb"

    Edison never invented the light bulb, Englishman Humphrey Davy did 70 years earlier.

    "Played a major role in delivering the free world from Fascism in WW2"

    Russia played the larger role

    "Americans who invented the internet"

    Yes, you did

  • they are very stupid people

  • Face it, it is common knowledge the world over! And America's puritanical religious bullshit (i.e. Christianity and the schmucks of the so-called "Christain Right") is not helping matters much either; meanwhile, the rest of the civilized world continues to move forward academically, intellectually and becoming more secularized by the minute...the U.S. needs to wake the FUCK UP!

  • Christianity makes Americans stupid. 90% of Americans' lives are run and managed by politicians who claim to be Christians but in actions which are not.

  • @TheSpeaknoevil HOW RIGHT YOU ARE!! Give the man a cigar! lol

  • Did it ever occur to him that the word "AMERICANS" include him? LOL I guess he's right about Americans being stupid. The first example would be him.

  • The United States are truly full of fat ignorant dunces. The country has gradually lost it's status as the "superpower" of the world, and China is surely acquiring that role as we type. Every year, billions of dollars are funneled into the U.S.'s military and defense budget while it's education system and infrastructure deteriorate. The youth are becoming obese and ignorant too, as a new generation of fat morons is being bred.

  • @smoyer60

    The U.S. is on the fast track to nowhere and it's a dying shame. As Thomas Jefferson said "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

  • poor ignorant americans...keep watching tv and live without even know whats goin on around u...oh BTW ur own governtment made the 9/11 and they fckin never headshoted ben laden.OMG i shudn t say this but i just like the truth while u like to be brainwash sorry.

  • The answer to the title is- So stupid it's beyond description.

  • So stupid that they believe in monkeys

  • @TheC00kiieMonster Believe in monkeys??? BELIEVE IN THEM? Yeah, as a US citizen, I have to say I do believe in monkeys and I have PROOF that they are REAL. Amazing you picked up on that! I also believe you need something to be mad at. :09 Cookie Monster! LOL

  • @MolecularMoonlight im not angry? i have a shitload of Atheist friends and what they say is believe in what ever u want what u think is most logic and btw ur name is Moonlight??

  • The fact government is involved is the cause of poor education is not factual.. Another retarded Republican assertion about big government!.Canada rated 3rd in SAT tests and the school system is run entirely by the government...it is so in most European country such as Finland who rated 2nd in world SAT tests...Shanghai rated 1st, and you could hardly find more government control then China!!!

  • Stupid enough to discover electricity...stupid enough to invent airplanes..stupid enough to put a man on the moon..yeah we're really stupid...

  • @bigb771 Electricity was discovered by Edison whose family came from Holland. First plane was invented by french gay Clement Ader. 1st man on the moon - how many nations are in NASA staff? Beside - those are scientist and we're talking about regular people. And regular Americans I met in my life are really stupid. Sorry, but that's who I met - idiots who belevied United Europe is one country, like USA... And I know more examples... Want to read them more?

  • @m1k3L3vy Nikola Tesla invented electricity Edison took all his credit..

  • @XxLadyAssassinxX hurr durr no body "invented" electricity. It was always there, just discovered. And by Benjamin Franklin with a key and a kite

  • @SkooledINC ok

  • @XxLadyAssassinxX Tesla was born in Serbia... And to be clear - first chemical source of electricity (electric battery) was discovered by Allesandro Volta (volts - does it ring any bell?). Tesla discovered alternating current, (AC). So yes, I was wrong, it wasn't Edison, who discovered electricity. But it wasn't Tesla either...

  • @m1k3L3vy

    Tesla was born in Pozega,Croatia, but he have some Serbian origins.

  • @m1k3L3vy sorry man.. i just want people to know about Tesla because he was a genius well beyond his time and he got fuck all credit for it..

  • @XxLadyAssassinxX And he wanted to power the whole world with free electricity but the elites who run the coal and oil industry didn't like the fact the masses ie.us, would have free electricity and put them out of business.. its crazy shit! and edison made sure Tesla was taken out out of history books and made him out to be a crazy person. you should watch "stuff they dont want you to know. Tesla" if you want

  • @m1k3L3vy You're right but...My entire family came from some other country...But they are all considered Americans. Edison? American. NASA? American...We're not talking about lineage here because if we were "American" wouldn't even be a word.

  • Public ignorance is the greatest danger for a democracy.

  • its so fucked up that so many people has died because americans didn't know al-qaida wasn'rät behind 9/11

  • @ingenaning95 al-qaida WAS behind 9/11, but the iraq wasnt. THERES A DIFFERENCE.

  • Even Obama said in that one speech of his that South Korea is number one in students completing college followed by Canada, Russia, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Ireland, Denmark, Israel, Belgium, Australia, and the United States.

  • @TTStarlight911 Russia!?? hum...check SAT scores for 2011... Shanghai, Canada Finland...USA 27th, Russia further down...

  • Stupid AND fat

  • In my country, interviewers don't interrupt.

    Wow, i live in an amazing country then.

  • I live in California, people are fucking retarded. About 85% of people don't even know we are playing war games with Iran.

  • The stupid in Britain would be just above average intelligence in America.

    PROVEN FACT!

    U MAD AMERICANS?!

  • 57 americans disliked this video

  • americans are seriously retarded!

  • Americans saying their not stupid, but why is the world saying the are stupid? are americans so stupid that they dont know what stupid is ???

  • pretty stupid.

  • The key phrase is "don't care". If you don't care, you don't want to know. And if you don't want to know, you'll never know. Just no stimula and desire to broaden horizons. Why bother if everything is already OK in the first place?

  • I understand that America is huge and isolated. I get that the continent is so large that many Americans go on holiday to the other side of their own country etc. etc. A different mentality over there, fine. But what on Earth do they teach them? What do they learn in school? I don't understand it. The education system should surely be enlightening the ignorant. Strange.

  • Amerykanie to banda debili

  • ....

    Dont give credit to communism. A lot of people completely unnecessary died on soviet side (in Czech, Poland... even the civilists), because they wanted to get as far as they could. And then communism slaved us for over the half a century.

  • And thus the CNN flame war begone

  • verrr stupid.

  • Extremly stupid and brainwashed.

  • @pellenyberg and that's sugar coating it...

  • @ptm5150 Yes and whith a cherry on top:)

  • @pellenyberg Oh and first to the moon...We are so stupid, right?

  • Yes you are pretty fucking stupid

  • @eotunun U mad? Discovery Channel rules!