Don't believe the white-guilt, liberal narrative that Americans are stupid. Americans are much smarter than they think.

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[–]maskdebater 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I didn't agree with your posts until now. I see what you're saying about mistaking a lack of cultural edifices for stupidity. A shining example of this is McDonalds. It's like plastic food and roundly mocked the world over for lack of sophistication, but a lot of thought and effort actually went into making McDonalds what it is. Every single step of the process has been honed to maximum efficiency with an optimized supply chain and mechanized aids to produce this food quickly and cheaply. That's kind of America in general, not exactly the most culturally refined (although some places are) but damn if we aren't businesslike, focused and efficient.

[–]wecandobetter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's a fantastic example. McDonalds, our supreme cultural cuisine, is not artistic like Japanese food or...I don't even know what you'd call it...needlessly complex like French cuisine, and thus it gets a lot of shame. Hurrdurr, dumb Americans eating burgers. But in reality the R&D lab of McDonalds is basically the most advanced food science lab in the world. They've created food that's inexpensive and good-tasting, and within reasonable portions, actually nutritionally decent. And by the way, for all the mockery, I've personally witnessed teens and adults in all corners of Europe crowded into McDonalds to get their taste of 'inferior American culture'.