efrethei@afit-ab.arpa (Erik J. Fretheim) (01/21/89)
In article <481@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes: >In article <5393@pdn.UUCP> reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach) writes: >>In article <9504@ut-emx.UUCP> ethan@ut-emx.UUCP (Ethan Tecumseh Vishniac) writes: >>>Someone has made the comment that Americans might be intellectually >>>inferior because our ancestors were selected for stupidity. (something >> As Ethan put forth, this is preposterous. >All the more so, because the premise of the whole question is wrong: Americans >are intellectually superior to most of the rest of the world's people. The >reason is that we can cut through the bull a lot quicker and get to the >essence of whatever issue that may arise, so we do not need to go through the >tradition-laden and roundabout methods of learning whatever needs to be learned. Or more likely we tend to have a higher degree of obvious intellectualism because we have a higher percentage of children raised on balanced diets than most other countries (especially third world countries). We also have more public schools than most other countries. To counter those countries we cannot out do in one of the previous catagories, we have a superior support system for inflated egos :-). ejf x