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Originally Posted by helix
No offense taken, and we are glad you love us.
It makes us feel better knowing you truly love Americans
as you proclaim us to be ignorant when it comes to history.
I hope you enjoy the view from your pedestal.
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Helix, i was obviously generalizing...i'm a very humile person. And i was referring to history, not to ignorance, generally speaking. If you will tell me that i know nothing about quantum phisics, i will tell you that you are right...that makes me ignorant about quantum phisics, but not necessarily generically as a person.
If you wanna know how genuine and not at all ironic i was when i said that i love Americans, it should be enough to tell you that my mum is American and that i have studied in the US for a few years. Everybody who knows me could tell you how much i "fight" almost daily, with them, taking the side of the US and feeling rather disgusted by the brain-washing propaganda that our european politicians and media try to do to us against the USA. This does not mean that poor knowledge of worldwide historical events is a fact in the average-cultured American people. It's simply a matter of different school system in the US from the one in many european countries, where you have 10 hours of history lessons a week in highschool, for 5 years and you have (unfortunately) 1 hour of IT related stuff every two weeks. Said this, Americans are all but ignorant: they are just not taught much history of the world at highschool. It is nothing to be ashamed of.