You must be a very smart person.

Basing an entire nations intelligence on an accident, the opinions of some kids and some poles.

Well done. What purpose does this thread serve other than to spark off flaming?

I think I might have been to the UK.

Oh yeah! Silly me. I live there.

I'm still not agreeing with your post. How are we dumb? Because of three videos?

I can understand where your coming from. As in, experience a foreign culture and realise that everyone back home is a bunch of thickeys?

Sorry, still makes no sense. This is the same rubbish people do with the Americans, assume they are stupid because of a few videos in which hundreds are interviewed and only the stereotype satisfying ones are shown.

There are stupid people in every culture on Earth, as are there intelligent people. There is no country which is 'smarter' than another.

Intelligence is a relative term. One nations idiot is another's genius.

What exactly is he ignorant of?

Why does it matter where any of us have lived? There's no real difference between the people of Britain, Germany, Iraq, Japan, etc other than cultural differences and the languages. Neither of these determine how 'smart' they are.

So please, can you explain why exactly you believe British people to be dumb and what the relevance of moving away has?

You know what, this guy is getting pathetic, your probably gonna get banned if you keep this up. This thread should be closed, I have no idea what your trying to do.

I have a feeling he had a bad experience in the UK like getting beat up, and now he's taking it out on everyone that lives there haha.



[edit on 11-5-2008 by _Phoenix_]

A couple of things pissed me off about that second video.

Firstly, the currency of NI is Pounds Sterling and in the Republic its Euros.

Second, Rolls Royce is a german owned car manufacturer (BMW subsidiary). There are actually no British car manufacturers.

Thus the video maker was wrong on both counts and is a thorough douchebag.

And yes OP, as are you if you try and make generalisations based on a hand picked minority of idiots. I daresay based on an interview with your kind self, one would not think too highly of the American population.

Luckily we dont form judgements based on extrapolations from a tiny source group.

Originally posted by jimbo999
I do not say this from pure ignorance - I come to this conclusion from pure experience.

Please elaborate, we all are waiting to hear of these experiences that have made you label us as dumb.

Because at the moment, everything you are saying is sounding incredibly ignorant.

Could you tell me where in the UK you stayed?

Originally posted by jimbo999

..... Ever lived outside the UK for more than say - a year perhaps?

Ever??



J.

I have , what's your point ?

Originally posted by Zanzibar
What exactly is he ignorant of?

Why does it matter where any of us have lived? There's no real difference between the people of Britain, Germany, Iraq, Japan, etc other than cultural differences and the languages. Neither of these determine how 'smart' they are.

So please, can you explain why exactly you believe British people to be dumb and what the relevance of moving away has?

Simple.

Ethnic and cultural integration.

For all you hate the Americans and the 'Europeans' (you ARE europeans, by the way) your isolation from other cultures ahs made you all somewhat arrogant and deluded. Victoria died a long time ago - but the Brits still actually belive they are some sort of superior race. And yet, as can be seen from these videos - or any long stay IN the country - the level of education., sophistication, global awareness, or general advancement of eco-social responsiblity it's pretty well non-existance by most western standards..

J.