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Originally Posted by kane
To me there is a difference between dumb and ignorant/lack of education.
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That's kinda what I meant in my first post....we are "dumbed down" not unintelligent.
We should be REQUIRED to learn Spanish, French, Russian, Dutch, German, etc. from the time we are in kindergarten or pre-school.
I know we all took a little French or Spanish as a high school elective, but it's not good enough.
We should be fluent in a few different languages by the time we are 10 years old.
But instead, we have politicians screaming "English Only". And trying to build a freakin' border "wall" (instead of just stopping the war on drugs entirely). And we are kept ignorant by our news media for damn sure.
I'm too damn old now to learn another language. It would have been easy to do it when I was young (kids have minds like sponges at the time of their life).
But at least I can now watch Al Jazeera America and get news events from around the world.
Seems that CNN only reports stupid shit from foreign countries (like the French sex scandal) that don't really mean anything.
I hope that in the near future we change our attitude and open our minds here in the U.S.
Otherwise, we are going to fall far behind the rest of the world.
When this country started, it was envisioned by learned men who were world-wise.
They all spoke several languages, knew what was going on in the world, and were men of science...NOT religion.
There isn't any reason that in the year 2014, the average American can only speak English. And has never traveled out of their own state....much less country. And we aren't given any pertinent information about what is going on in the world.
Just look at 9-11.
Most of us were shocked! We had no idea WHY anybody would hate our country.
I guess that's the way our govt. likes to keep us: Ignorant of the shit they are doing around the world.