Matchbook Diaries

Dumb Americans?

I was thinking about this the other day and it suddenly hit me: One of the reasons the people in other countries think Americans are dumb (other than the fact that some American's fit this stereotype!) is because we don't know the ins and outs of their specific cultures and languages. Here's the problem with that. They are taught from birth about America. Our language, style, and way of life are everywhere while they are growing up. Picture it this way: the US is like the rock-star or celebrity of the world. When you think about it, every celeb has thousands of fans that know all kinds of information about them, but the celeb knows very little about each fan. It would be impossible for them to know as much about each fan as each fan knows about them. It's the same with America. Love us or hate us, they know about us because we are the world's superpower. We don't know as much about all of the other countries of the world as they do about us, because we don't have the same need to have that information. Just a little something to think about.