Americans are not dumb. The US does, however, have an embarassingly poor standard of second-level education. The cause of this can be traced to the decentralization of the school system, with only the vaguest notions of federal standardization. This means, that if a teacher in a teaching district in California, for example, decides that their biology curriculum will center exclusively on the sex life of a walrus, then there's very little to stop them (assuming, of course, the comply to the aforementioned loose standards). Apart from AP courses, there is practically no standard curriculum for anything. This is ludicrous, and explains why many children get an appalling education. The american school system is turning american people into idiots.
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http://www.blog.thesietch.org/2007/04/25/could-this-be-our-problem/Americans DO NOT live longer than nearly every country on this list. Even if they did, they would have to live nearly three times as long as Icelanders for this to explain the results. It is stupid comments like this that paint americans as dumb.
Also, justinf, the United States is not the only country that has immigration? Sweden and Denmark, 2nd and 3rd on the list, have a higher proportion of immigrants than the United States.
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