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Originally posted by FissionSurplus
Don't expect to find the best and brightest American minds playing online video games. The real intelligent ones aren't wasting their time playing shoot-em-up games. All you're going to get are kids who are ignorant and barely know the time or date from a hole in the ground.
You could tell them all a pack of lies and they'd believe it. I don't want to make a blanket statement and say that everybody who plays these games is an ignoramus, but everybody I know who plays is young, gets poor grades in school, and doesn't know anything of value.
Come to ATS if you want Americans who are capable of intelligent conversation and cogent arguments. Play online games with American kids for fun, but don't expect them to know a damned thing. Does the game allow for you to use them as human shields?
Originally posted by Mr Headshot
You people who say that kids who are playing video games are of base level intelligence are as bad as people who say that black kids turn into thieves. It's stereotyping. There are dumb kids who play video games, and there are smart kids who play video games. All kinds of video games. Quit your ignorant non-observations.
Originally posted by Mr Headshot
You people who say that kids who are playing video games are of base level intelligence are as bad as people who say that black kids turn into thieves. It's stereotyping. There are dumb kids who play video games, and there are smart kids who play video games. All kinds of video games. Quit your ignorant non-observations.
Originally posted by reverandrandy
I've only ever heard of children actually talking to strangers in those games....
I'm a product of lazy ass parents, and the American Public Educations System. We are, and have been since the advent of the DOE(dept. of Education), been spoon fed, as you say, a whole truck load of hog-wash.
They (teachers/administrators) only care about the statitstics, and those stats., have to show continuous improvment in order to qualify for funding dollars.
There, has been a recent uptrend in "homeschooling", which is legal, and not utilized often enough.
There are stupid people everywhere. I very well would have been at a lower level of knowledge had I not had a fire to learn, and blessed with the art of BS.
~Rev
Originally posted by spacedoubt
reply to post by phroziac
I completely agree. Though us American are BETTER at everything else, it's a proven fact, We are the most specialist people on Earth. As a matter of fact, we probably do stupid better too. We excel, period.
edit on 24-11-2012 by spacedoubt because: (no reason given)
i agree with you
Originally posted by JibbyJedi
I don't know, I may have to question your intelligence playing such a game online with American kids. Hmmm....
You are pretty much correct, they aren't teaching in our schools, they are babysitting whilest doing "activities". American kids also forget EVERYTHING they learned the previous year during Summer vacation, and that input is replaced by online entertainment.