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

I live in a cornfield. so, yes.

[QUOTE=Rimor Animus;19926321]Socialism FTW.[/QUOTE] This explains so much about you

I thought this was going to be an imformal thread =( I was hoping you would have some megathread of history so these kids could read it and learn some of the major events in the world.

[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] Pretty much this. There's always going to be idiots, but chances are there are a lot of smart people too to make up for the idiots in your year.

[QUOTE=noahandhisark;19926326]Must I remind you it's not an easy topic to cover.[/QUOTE] you stole my avatar you dirtbag

[QUOTE=Mister B;19927894]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:[/QUOTE] Not friend.

[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]It's because they have a life too exciting to care about that stuff.

[QUOTE=Mister B;19927894]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:[/QUOTE] I'd slap a bitch. Every guy knows about north and south korea due to video games, eg crysis.

Our History class got in a discussion about Nazi Germany and all that stuff and a kid asked, Did Anne Frank die? And then everybody was like, Did she die? It's was even worse in Geography class when a lot of the kids didn't know where the Midwest was. They also said any country with the majority of the people that are Muslim all speak Arabic as their native language and their is no such thing as a white Muslim. At least one other kid in my class knew that this was all wrong, but there is 35 other kids in my class that all thought this was right.

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;19928188]I'd slap a bitch. Every guy knows about north and south korea due to video games, eg crysis.[/QUOTE] I think he knew/knows that they are two different countries, but decides to lump them together.

Someone in my socials class thought Newfoundland was Greenland...

I saw OP's avatar and stopped reading and Jizzed in my pants

It's not all kids, however History and Social Studies classes are becoming extremely marginalized. I feel your pain OP, once when my Social class was combined with another some kid asked me if it was Stalin or Hitler who had the mustache. :smith:

[quote=machk;19928350]some kid asked me if it was stalin or hitler who had the mustache. :smith:[/quote] trick question! It was his sled all along!

Pretty much the truth OP. Might as well add geography in there as well. I don't understand how some people are so fucking stupid when it comes to where we live and other countries.Just a small example; I was playing hearts of iron with a friend and he wanted to be Portugal, so he is looking for Portugal then says "OH! I found it" and clicks on Italy. He was serious. Until he read the name Italy and went "oh".

A lot of the "smart" kids I know are anarchist. What a bunch of dumbshits. I can't argue with them about it because apparently I'm the only one that thinks anarchy is the dumbest thing ever.

[QUOTE=Jund;19928422]A lot of the "smart" kids I know are anarchist. What a bunch of dumbshits. I can't argue with them about it because apparently I'm the only one that thinks anarchy is the dumbest thing ever.[/QUOTE] They aren't anarchists. They are wannabe anarchists. They probably just recently watched Fight Club

Oh and my "communist" friends that don't know what the fuck they're talking about. They say "gee I read a book about communism it's really cool maybe I should put the h&s as my photo on Facebook and I'll be so badass because communism is cool and maybe these jeans from The Gap will go really swell with this communist shirt also from The Gap." [editline]04:59AM[/editline] [QUOTE=Aman V;19928444]They aren't anarchists. They are wannabe anarchists. They probably just recently watched Fight Club[/QUOTE] I know, kids these days.

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;19928188]Every guy knows about north and south korea due to video games, [b]eg crysis.[/b][/QUOTE] No. [b]Most[/b] people would not learn that from Crysis, I can assure you. Most people in (American) schools play on consoles only and have little-to-no experience in PC gaming. Therefore, most people don't even know what Crysis is, and they cannot learn anything from it if they haven't heard about it.

[QUOTE=TAU!;19926343]About 99% of my classmates are complete fucktards who don't know shit about history. Two weeks ago, in US History, one of my classmates asked the teacher "Didn't slavery end in the 1950s?" I wanted to kill him so badly.[/QUOTE] US History seems to be a proving ground for idiots. So many stupid things. Even in AP US History. Some people can't even name all the people One day, a kid asked how does the government inject or take money out of the economy. That's a fine question as very few adults let alone students now how. Our teacher used to work with the FED so he explained it in-depth. I expected most people to get lost halfway, but I was fucking dumbfounded when most got lost at "Treasury Bond" because they didn't know what a bond is. Out of a class of 30 I was the only one who could name all five rights guaranteed in the First Amendment. No one could name four of the rights. Ten could name three of them. And all the others could only mention freedom of speech and region. Some girl had a picture of Fred Astaire in her binder and I asked her if she liked his movies. She said she didn't know who it was and she had it there as it went with the era we were learning, colonial America. Half the kids in my class must be young Earth creationists (there is one actually) because they seem to think everything in US history happened in the last 100 years. Most of that has been straightened out by the class but the occasional "oh they banned slavery in the 1800's?" or "They had cameras back then?" Something else that was a little more humerus was a discussion of the Mexican American war. The question was how much land if any, should America have taken? It basically turned into a racial debate about the people and got pretty heated between the Mexicans and those people who feel that they can never loose an argument. AP European History had its moments too. This one guy kept asking me for answers for our test on the 30 years was so I just started making up stuff. I told him about how the great Heinrich Himmler leading the Swedes to victory and raising the percentage of Christians in Europe. The teacher just circled his answered in red and wrote a large question mark. Also for our second semester final, we could either write about industrialization in Europe or compare and contrast German unification with Italian unification. Most people wrote about the second one. But they fucked up and failed because half of them wrote about German reunification. I don't even know how you'd compare the fall of the Berlin Wall and Garibaldi.

[QUOTE=Fhenexx;19928514]No. [B]Most[/B] people would not learn that from Crysis, I can assure you. Most people in (American) schools play on consoles only and have little-to-no experience in PC gaming. Therefore, most people don't even know what Crysis is, and they cannot learn anything from it if they haven't heard about it.[/QUOTE] Everyone has Modern Warefare 2 at my school, and ask me if I'm going to get it. I say "Once I get up the money, I'm getting it for the computer." And then they give me a lecture on how console gaming is like DVDs and PC gaming is like VHSs in the sense that console gaming is the new thing and PC gaming will eventually die out because of it.

Thank god for my highschool, I'm only a stupid freshmen and we just got into our end of the year project where we have a list of Eco-friendly topics we think up, tree farms, photovoltaic cells, wind power, alternate energy, etc. etc. We choose one, and do a big paper about how it's sustainable, eco-friendly, environmentally friendly. :allears: I love my highschool. Which makes me wonder what other [i]normal[/i] highschools learn about.

[QUOTE=UserDirk580;19928589]US History seems to be a proving ground for idiots. So many stupid things. Even in AP US History. Some people can't even name all the people One day, a kid asked how does the government inject or take money out of the economy. That's a fine question as very few adults let alone students now how. Our teacher used to work with the FED so he explained it in-depth. I expected most people to get lost halfway, but I was fucking dumbfounded when most got lost at "Treasury Bond" because they didn't know what a bond is. Out of a class of 30 I was the only one who could name all five rights guaranteed in the First Amendment. No one could name four of the rights. Ten could name three of them. And all the others could only mention freedom of speech and region. Some girl had a picture of Fred Astaire in her binder and I asked her if she liked his movies. She said she didn't know who it was and she had it there as it went with the era we were learning, colonial America. Half the kids in my class must be young Earth creationists (there is one actually) because they seem to think everything in US history happened in the last 100 years. Most of that has been straightened out by the class but the occasional "oh they banned slavery in the 1800's?" or "They had cameras back then?" [/QUOTE] I draw the line at this. That's just retarded. They were born missing several chromosomes.

[QUOTE=EurofanBMW;19927694]The kids that dont know anything about politics are the same kids that wear Che shirts and have communist symbols in their avatars.[/QUOTE] Oh that is super clever. Whatever, you are free to your opinion of me.

Hey guys, I just read about this guy called Hitler! We should stop him and stuff. :v:

We just made giant list out of research my teacher has been doing for the past years about everything made from petroleum, it's over 150 things. I also learned what 'paradigm' means and how it's going to be really hard to get people to change there ways from using petroleum.

[QUOTE=Black-Ice;19928347]I saw OP's avatar and stopped reading and Jizzed in my pants[/QUOTE] Bro-fist.

darn kids these days and their wikipedia

Well kids think politics are very boring, I agree.

[QUOTE=Mister B;19928762]I draw the line at this. That's just retarded. They were born missing several chromosomes.[/QUOTE] I think they born with an extra one.