Now, this has been bothering me for awhile, and I just want to get it off my chest.

I may not be a bright person, or extremely smart person, but at least I can point out where I live on a map. I've been informed of this before, but it never really hit me at all that some Americans can't point out the location of their city on a map of the United States.

This isn't the only difference I see between America and other countries. An AFS student from Thailand that goes to my school aces all of my 3rd Year High School coursework from ease. Apparently the stuff he had in Thailand was much harder. His math courses are incredibly demanding. Mathematics is critical in his country.

But that's not all! Foreign kids learn several other languages other than the one they've obviously spoken since birth. Did you know that foreign languages aren't required (for the most part) in America? However, kids who live in the eastern part of Spain have to learn English and French, and possibly other languages that I can't remember. Learning English is required for many, many students in foreign countries.

Saying this, most colleges in Wisconsin require a couple years of unspecified foreign language study.

Anyway, do any people who don't live in America see somewhat of a lower intelligence in people from America here? Odds are, if you're dumb, you're from this country.

It's insulting to live here at times, even though I'm the kind of person that contributes to the stupidity some moments, mostly not being able to keep up with my foreign exchange friend.

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“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
~Charles Darwin