Ambivalent1
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- Apr 17, 2023
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The Western world is not the Western hemisphere. The west is Europe and the U.S.Is the western world anti-intellectual? To say that the average person is "a fool who can't even speak well" sounds a little unfair considering that a good portion of countries in the western hemisphere are not even English speaking. And if they are, excluding Canada and The US, they speak a localized creole, pidgin, patois, etc. where speaking "well" is relative to the region. Just because it's not standardized English doesn't make the people speaking it unintelligent. Judging someone by that metric will tell me next to nothing about their intellect. Even some people on this forum are highly intelligent but they are not the best communicators. The way they type sentences in a box doesn't make them a fool.
Anyway, I don't feel strongly about it in one way or the other. I don't really consider people anti-intellectual so much as the school systems and their environments might have failed them for a number of reasons (and most of them have to do with poverty). Where I'm from, the average grade of a student at any level is below what we consider to be a C (a pass ~60% or 50%). I don't really find it embarrassing, it's more of a shame. A lot of people are quite literally set up for failure and aren't even given the chance to be an intellectual. But that failure is good in societies that value keeping people in a system that will benefit those on top. God forbid that the average person can think and engage with the things they happen upon critically, how would they be controlled? Better to tear them down and teach them about the mitochondria instead lol.
Now that I know this I am definitely going to tell people to start excluding themselves from conversations about the west, lol. But even in by that I still wouldn't consider the entirety of the west to be anti-intellectual, probably just some of the most influential countries are. I would consider anti-intellectualism to be a rejection of and negative attitude to education and the arts by a society at large and a lot of countries wouldn't necessarily fit that bill as far as I know.The west is Europe and the U.S.
How many average person did you meet and speak to conclude this statement, what's your research on thisIt's embarrassing. The average person is a fool who can't even speak well.
We all want to be relevant. It's why you responded here after all. Don't be a hypocrite.How many average person did you meet and speak to conclude this statement, what's your research on this
Where are the sources to prove this statement
You just make up weird topic and questions, I don't know why, are you trying to be relevant!
Not everyone want to be relevant, I respond to you because the things you ask and say in this site are atrociousWe all want to be relevant. It's why you responded here after all. Don't be a hypocrite.
I've known many people in my life and the amount of stupidity encountered is astronomical. People speak in slang almost all the time even full grown adults. The U.S. is a ghetto shit hole.
That's disappointing.Travel a bit. There's nothing Western about it. It's the human condition.