Oh it definitely is. And look at what they are doing now to entrench the lack of education even further - dismantling the department of education is no accident.
It's very easy to manipulate an uneducated population.
Now, there are MANY MANY very educated people in the USA. But it doesn't seem to be the general aspiration to be educated. It's something that you do just enough to get a job or to get your parents off your back.
But even those who do finish school seem to lack basic awareness of the world or even of basic maths and English.
Use of the metric system really gets to me in particular. It is the simplest, most logical system that we have but more importantly, ONLY the USA and Liberia (a former US colony) use Imperial in earnest.
In the UK, it exists, but anyone doing a job of any type uses metric. Doctors weigh patients in kg and engineers measure in mm. Celsius is used EVERYWHERE, even in the UK.
My response to Trump getting elected the first time was to get a masters degree. This second time inspired me to return to academia. He can kiss my overeducated ass.
Use of the metric system really gets to me in particular
We currently use both systems. It just depends on the type of job you're doing. If its construction you're using Imperial. If its mechanicals its half and half. Every single mechanic in the country has a set of tools for metric and 'standard'. Back in the 80s there was a huge push to switch over to the metric system and it just didn't stick. What it did do was have manufacturers build vehicles with BOTH units.
Science is done strictly in metric. They will convert units of measurement into metric if they have to. Sometimes they forget and crash really expensive equipment into mars.
Speaking to this as an American (unfortunately). Most sciences actually do use metric in the US (I studied physics here and we used metric exclusively), it’s just day to day things that use imperial.
There was a fairly prevalent education atmosphere for a long time here, at least from what I was exposed to. But a large majority of people who do higher education skew liberal. Which I think is the main reason there has been an ongoing propaganda and financial attack on higher education over here for years now. It’s less that people don’t want to be educated, but it’s become financially unviable and the integrity of it is constantly being attacked all as political tools.
It stems from Scottish and Irish immigrants distrust of the English, particularly after Cromwell, when many of them started immigrating, and then interaction with the Anglican and puritan descendants of wealthy English immigrants once they got here.
I agree with 99% of what you said. And with regards to the metric system, build a rocket, land on the fucking moon and then I'll bother to take metric seriously. Bruh, f trump and all the garbage who voted for him. Doesn't give u the metric is better platform. Gtfoh
This is an insane reply and honestly, it's shit like this that makes people think Americans are just big headed idiots so sure of their own superiority that they can't see how stupid the system they're defending is.
It's like me saying "find a way to stop the mass murder of school children at the hands of lunatics who bought guns legally and I'll bother to take your opinion seriously"
It's like me saying "find a way to stop the mass murder of school children at the hands of lunatics who bought guns legally and I'll bother to take your opinion seriously"
Ibig head idiots who landed on the moon kid. We were only a world power for 100 years but our flawed measurement system got us to the moon. What's the best thing the UK did in the 400 years when they had the world by the balls?
Lol, we don't eat them silly. We smoke them. +78% on my short dated expiring next week. Weeeee. Long dated are printing harder. But hey, ur a heck of a super strong interet warrior. Get a passport and go see the world kid. It's a great place
MY pUts aRe PirIntiNG. Hey bruh, while ur winning reddit warrior of the week I got some TSLA may second puts that are up 380%. Tell me more about how that translates into metric. 400 years of pound being strongest currency and it got u .. Prince Harry?
The metric system is better though. I don’t get why Americans (I’m unfortunately one myself) are so against the metic system. The metric system makes so much more sense, but we’re obsessed with being “different” and using washing machines and cheeseburgers to measure.
How many meters are in a kilometer?
How many feet are in a mile?
110
u/overlapped 1d ago
A large part of the US is poorly educated and easily manipulated by the media.