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Originally Posted by Dantheman62
I do agree with a lot of that, we should stop playing the game of telling people what to do! Bush was very good at telling people what to do around the world. Being a bully country will definitely get us nowhere.
I disagree with some of what you say about our schools though. I grew up in Minnesota, which at the time was 4th in the nation as far as quality of education. I never paid attention and still learned a lot.
We did study about other countries and geography was one of my favorite subjects.
As far as Olympic games, don't most people try and watch their own countrymen, and hope they do well?
I think you're generalizing us too much, I think we're a lot more worldly than you give us credit for.
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When you studied geography maybe it was different. I bet a lot has changed since then.I worked in new York school system for a few years.....But that dumbing down is going on not only in USA, in other countries too, Poland included. It's just hard to say where it is worst.
As far as watching their countrymen...of course this is what is important. I just rmember watching Olympics in 1996(in USA) not knowing anything about any winners from other countries. In Poland we always know about how well our sportsmen do, but we also know who the best guys are and we show events even without anybody from Poland participating.
I do not want to sound too critical and I do not write about people here, it's more about the system. And if I were to generalize I think that in general Americans are nice folks.
