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Its like this. France is a small country with their nose high in the air. France is a country that the U.S. rescued twice in the last century in two world wars. France is the most ungrateful uppity country in the world.
Now with that said some French people themselves are nice cool people, SOME not all and quite a few think they are the shit.
Britain a country that was once a great world Empire two centuries ago in its own right. Now reduced to the Island Nation it once was before its Empire. A cool country with some people that are really cool. A country that for the most part in some circles never got over being beat by the U.S. in the American Revolution. Cest La Vie.
Most British people like America and Americans, snotty upper crust English like to put down the United States. Clarkson on top gear does it because he just likes being an ass for the sake of being an ass.
Now I pointed these things about those two countries out because you used them as the examples. Poor examples they are. neither has achieved the kind of technological advancements the U.S. has. We were the first to smash the Atom. We lead the world in semiconductor technology( oh and don't even attempt to argue that) i.e. we invent transistors, we invented silicon transistors, we invented TTL and large scale integration. Without large scale integration you would not have your cell phone or your computers.
Sure other countries make memory chips cheap. Though when it comes to microprocessors we are the bleeding edge. Same goes for software.
Now with those examples plus other things as well,its a fact that the U.S. is a country that is almost 30 times or more the size of Britain or France. A country that has thrown open its doors to people from all over the world with different levels of education and knowledge.
In that sense you cannot expect everyone in the United States to be of above average intelligence. There is more chance of there being a higher concentration of bright people in Britain or France just based on a geographical size difference to population.
Even though their are areas and places in the U.S. were intelligence is extremely high and areas were its extremely low.
The San Francisco Bay area and more specifically Silicon Valley is an Example of an Area with a high population of way above average intelligence.
Hell the high School I went to in Palo Alto was in the 98th percentile.
Seattle and Redmond Washington would be another area. As well as certain areas of Texas, believe it or not. Boston Mass because their is a high tech area out there. Chicago area(it was the home of bell labs were the transistor was invented by William Shockley) .
So basically your question is a rather broad and generalized situation. Are Americans smart they can be. Are there some dumb Americans that embarass America? Yes. Though see every country has their idiot.
Its just both France and England are has been's that want to throw darts at the successors. LOL
As far as our educational system goes the secondary schools have fallen in the last 15 years. They do need to be reformed.
Our Colleges and Universities are exceptional though. Which is way you see so many foreigners coming here or wanting to to attend College.
Our Medical is also considered to be the most advanced in the world as well. Regardless of costs or lack of universal health care. Yes Britain and Canada have universal health care but there medical is still not quite as good as the U.S.
Oh and as far as what the poster above me said, LOL dude you really need to study more about America's technological advances. You are proving that Americans can be quite ignorant, of their own achievements and success.
I find all to often on car forums the people are only keyed to the fact that foreign countries now make better cars, and think because of it America is not as smart or technologically advanced.
Our car companies are beat because of bad management and the American auto workers union period!
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