Kids today don't know much of anything about politics or world history. - General

[QUOTE=Rimor Animus;19926809]At Community Colleges? Of course. At respectable colleges? Much less. (Thank Allah)[/QUOTE] Right..

[QUOTE=Rimor Animus;19926809]At Community Colleges? Of course. At respectable colleges? Much less. (Thank Allah)[/QUOTE] You keep thinking that.

[QUOTE=Rimor Animus;19926809]At Community Colleges? Of course. At respectable colleges? Much less. (Thank Allah)[/QUOTE] Define respectable.

[QUOTE=Megafanx13;19926857]Define respectable.[/QUOTE] Yale, Oxford, and Harvard. :v: Those are the [I]only[/I] ones, The rest are just colleges. If you go the a "university" I think those are regarded as more respectable, but even then there's still plenty of dumbfucks.

[QUOTE=blacksam;19926402]In theory.[/QUOTE] I actually think socialism works good, with small groups, and is voluntary.

once, we were studying the holocaust, and there was the picture of hitler with mussolini, everyone (including the teacher,) called him stalin

An example of a respectable College: Mills College

[QUOTE=Penguin-Man;19926890]once, we were studying the holocaust, and there was the picture of hitler with mussolini, everyone (including the teacher,) called him stalin[/QUOTE] Oh god, that is comedy gold.

Engineering fraternities don't throw that good of a party I assume. I'm going to Michigan Tech so I think there is a lot less party parties and a lot more lan parties. I was up visiting friends who go there and got involved in the TF2 lan party, 12v12 is so much more fun when you know people. Tech universities seem to have less dumbasses, at least from what I've seen.

[QUOTE=Megafanx13;19926291]Now it seems logical that kids wouldn't know much about international affairs, that's understandable, since they're just kids and it wouldn't interest them. However, today I saw that to the extreme. In this history class, there was an ongoing "class debate" on which idea was better, set up by the teacher. And the task today was to write the "Hows, Whens, Wheres, and Whats" of the idea. I chose communism, and as I was writing, this kid comes up to me and tries to get some cheap answers out of me, despite the fact that he doesn't even know my name. And then he says quite possibly the stupidest thing ever, "It's like, in Russia, right?" I look over at him, I chuckle, and I say "No, it's really not." Follow this up with about 20 minutes of the teacher asking questions about 2 of the groups (Communist and Socialist), and people giving me funny looks as about only 2 other people answer these questions. So tell me, do the kids in your area appear this lazy and overall oblivious to ideologies and international affairs as mine do?[/QUOTE] I don't know much about communism, I'm almost 21, and I'm a junior at my university. I'm not from a Western country, and I arrived to the US post-history class. Never learned anything but US History. I'm gonna wikipedia it. I've heard it on Seinfeld a few times - that's about it.

kids have always been stupid and always will be

[QUOTE=noahandhisark;19926326]Must I remind you it's not an easy topic to cover.[/QUOTE] That excuse is only viable to a certain extent. The school system has been continuously lowering standards in order to make their statistics look better. I could pass every test in my US History class with no instruction at all, because the entire class is like skimming a history book.

[QUOTE=TheMetalMan;19927011]I don't know much about communism, I'm almost 21, and I'm a junior at my university. I'm not from a Western country, and I arrived to the US post-history class. Never learned anything but US History. I'm gonna wikipedia it. I've heard it on Seinfeld a few times - that's about it.[/QUOTE] I'm not even sure how that is possible, surely you must have heard it a few times.

I've talked to foreigners on steam that know more about united states history/politics than almost everyone in my school.

Well US students are too busy thinking about how stupid it is to try in school.

[QUOTE=Megafanx13;19927143]Well US students are too busy thinking about how stupid it is to try in school.[/QUOTE] Generalizations are fun.

[QUOTE=Kamikaze;19927194]Generalizations are fun.[/QUOTE] I will say that I am not referring to all students, but after you hear people just calling others "tryhards", it seems a tad difficult to have any faith left in your student body.

Ummm, I don't hang around kids and everyone that I was friends with during high school were intelligent people. Just get into honors classes and you don't have to deal with stupidity.

[QUOTE=Megafanx13;19927089]I'm not even sure how that is possible, surely you must have heard it a few times.[/QUOTE] Nope. I lived in a country that is ruled by a dictator, so no one really read any non-native history. Came to the US in high school, took one year of US history and that's it.

[QUOTE=Alex_DeLarge;19927363]Ummm, I don't hang around kids and everyone that I was friends with during high school were intelligent people. Just get into honors classes and you don't have to deal with stupidity.[/QUOTE] It works up until the point when your school doesn't have honors History classes.

[QUOTE=RedBlade2021;19927476]It works up until the point when your school doesn't have honors History classes.[/QUOTE] AP Classes? They go pretty in depth into the communism v. capitalism stuff. However, the magic trimester system came in a took a shit all over everyone so we had to condense the entire WWII into three days and four essays :v

A majority, yeah, but not all.

Kids bitching about kids, oh the irony.

This is a strange turn of events.

A girl asked me why the Army didn't just kill Hitler with trained dinosaurs I told her that they were extinct way before humans even existed, she looked at me as if I was a retard and walked away

[QUOTE=Megafanx13;19926291]Now it seems logical that kids wouldn't know much about international affairs, that's understandable, since they're just kids and it wouldn't interest them. However, today I saw that to the extreme. In this history class, there was an ongoing "class debate" on which idea was better, set up by the teacher. And the task today was to write the "Hows, Whens, Wheres, and Whats" of the idea. I chose communism, and as I was writing, this kid comes up to me and tries to get some cheap answers out of me, despite the fact that he doesn't even know my name. And then he says quite possibly the stupidest thing ever, "It's like, in Russia, right?" I look over at him, I chuckle, and I say "No, it's really not." Follow this up with about 20 minutes of the teacher asking questions about 2 of the groups (Communist and Socialist), and people giving me funny looks as about only 2 other people answer these questions. So tell me, do the kids in your area appear this lazy and overall oblivious to ideologies and international affairs as mine do?[/QUOTE] The kids that dont know anything about politics are the same kids that wear Che shirts and have communist symbols in their avatars.

[QUOTE=Megafanx13;19927143]Well US students are too busy thinking about how stupid it is to try in school.[/QUOTE] This, exactly. There are so many [i]mexicans[/i] in my school. Now, when I say mexicans, I am referring to the ones that are in gangs and wear pants on their shins. They don't do anything in the class except pick on the white kids (really, there was a segregated fight on wednesday in our health class). I was threatened to get the shit beaten out of me if I brought my iPod touch again. It fell in some water on tuesday, so I brought it and showed it to him. He threw a punch at my arm and missed, I grabbed his arm and yanked him forward, tripping him, and slammed his face into the ground, told him not to fuck with me again. The kids literally come to class high (meaning they smoke in passing period), smoking 3 packs of cigarettes at once, while doing weed (some even do crystal meth). The guy that I fought was high on some weed, but he was like 250lbs (a bit slow...). [i]Now[/i], we had an [b]open book[/b] exam on thursday also, 2 other people, my friend, and I all made 100's while the rest of the class failed below a 50.

What i think is lame is how many adults will freak out in hearing ideas like communism and socialism, you havegot to read this article and realise how ignorant so many people are. [url]http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/04/obama.schools/index.html[/url] Original speech: I believe the video is linked on that page at the top of the article. He gave a speech telling children to stay in school and the whole of us freaked. I'm happy I live in Canada.

Friend: I hate Korea, they always try to pick fights! Me: There's no Korea anymore, there's North Korea and South Korea. Friend: Whatever, like there's a difference. Me: :eng99:

I've ran into so many people who think Iraq did 9/11.