Are Germanic Americans, on average, less intelligent or educated than Germanic Europeans?
If they are, doesn't this jar with the fact that the United States produces per capita more science Nobel Prize winners than any other country in the world but Germany? Why is the U.S. leading in many modern technological fields such as genetics, computer and information science, the digital entertainment industry and military weapon technology (which always has been a precursor for civil applications) -- or isn't it?
Is the American education system failing? If yes, what consequences will it have? Or is it merely separating the wheat from the chaff? Is it actually important in our times that the majority of the population is educated? Was it ever important? Still in the renaissance, only a small minority could even read after all....
Many Europeans find it funny if Americans don't know what the capital of Croatia is or if they can't find Lithuania on the map ... well, ask the average European what the capital of South Dakota is and to point to Washington state on a map -- and they'll pull a long face, too. Aren't we applying double standards?
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