Stupid in America

I dare you to ask any historian or economist why English is the language of business and politics. You can sit there in Hong Kong or where ever you live and fool your self, blinded by your stupid hatred of a country that you probably have never even been to, or you can accept historical facts and not be ignorant.

A century ago (like you are talking about with India and Africa) English and French were both fighting to be the dominant world language but after WW2 American and even today American economic, political and military influence has made English the dominant world language. It has nothing to do with your ego or unfounded hate for America. Why do you think that the Chinese speak English? To better compete with the UK? Duh! it is because they want to compete with the US!

uhuh...and I am a medical student in university...your point?

So you are suggesting that lower education should be totally scrapped and the only education you need to get should come from higher education in university?

I'm saying that education you get in high school forms the foundation of what you learn in higher education. Eg. The biology and chemistry learnt in high school is built up when I take anatomy/ physiology classes in uni. Do you disagree?

There, you think that just because America speaks a certain language, it instantly becomes the international language.

The British empire spanned the whole world. While you are right that north america contributed immensely, but because Britain had major colonies in Africa, India, Asia etc, that was the main reason that English is the international language of this day.

Not your fantasy dream that the US was the reason due to its "influence over business and politics"

Having been a straight-A honor student before going to university, I can tell you that you are totally wrong. The general stuff you learn pre-graduate school you can forget, it's specialized training applicable towards your profession that matters and for the rest of life you pay a professional who studied like you did, but in that other discipline.

... or you could try to be a jack of all trades, doing poorly at all. Smart is not about memorizing things to repeat, even parrots do that much.

Well, you just flat out dont know what you are talking about and your only speaking in half truths. Yes, England did intruduce English to America. But you didnt listen to what I said and didnt address the point I made. It would not have mattered what language was introduced, which ever it would have been (if the French would have won the French and Indian war the international language would be French) we would be speaking that language only because the US does.

The whole point is that you do not know what you really need to know in later life? So education is there to give you a broad all-rounded base so that you can actually learn what you need to know in university?

Thats why standardized test scores are important. Help unis judge students. How can you get an average of 990 on the SAT anyway...thats like having a -10 score.

Besides learning those kind of things helps train the growing child's brain and makes them smarter...

STUPID. AMERICANS.

You are wrong. English is an international language because of the huge british empire that spanned most of the world. They introduced english to the world, not america. Stop thinking the whole world revolves around you americans, it doesn't.

The US as a nation has only existed for 200-300 years...which is pitiful. You are like the lucky gambler who just got a seat on the table with the experienced players.

I myself live in a former british colony in China and so speak english because of it.

The difference in US schools is teachers are straying from the basic fundamentals and ad-libbing, sometimes to good effect and sometimes not.

This gives the US students a different perspective but is not the kind of creative thinking that lends itself as much to standardized testing scores.

... and there is some reasonable logic to that, what % of the things you learned in school (before graduate school) do you REALLY need to know often later in life?

maybe the government SHOULD stick its nose into everything...most of the people are dumbasses anyway. It is the biggest flaw in a democratic system. The average person is just dumb and not capable of making a nation's decisions. I'm not talking about just America btw, but all nations.