Shallow!

Spending my weekend in front of the idiot box has made me realised how some Americans are not as smart as the rest of the world thinks. Two programs that I happened to watch included the "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?" and the reality TV show by non other than Snoop Dogg.

Yes, I do realise that some of the stuff are probably scripted to increase the level of viewership but can it be scripted in a way to show how a developed nation's citizen thinks or behave?

Take the "Are you smarter than ...?" for example, this is a game show that puts an adult of probably late 20s onwards to answer simple questions that a 5th grader probably knows the answer much better. Anyhoo, for each question that is answered correctly, the participants get an 'upgrade' on their winnings (up to USD 1 million, that's a lot for 5th grader Q&A!!)

In this particular episode, this woman named Avis (not the car rental company mind you) has already answered all of the questions except one last question which would make her USD 500k richer. The question goes like this "Which continent in the world is also the name of the country?" There she goes counting the continents, America, Asia, Europe yada yada yada. And finally she said "There are so many - North America was her eventual answer" and decided not to proceed after baggin USD 300k. And surprise surprise, the answer was not North America. Hello! North America has another country in it, it is the country that you Americans like to poke fun at! Remember Canada?? She is probably a college graduate that cannot even answer a simple Grade 1 Geography question.

The second program that I caught, "Life with Snoop Dogg or some shit like that" show Snoop and his family having dinner at a German restaurant in surprise surprise Germany. And what are German known for? Their absolutely heavenly cooked pork related stuff and refreshing and cooling beer! So there they went and order some of the German food and when the food finally arrived, they were asking what is this? Is this pork? Is this the pork's neck? Its like W'ssup dogg, pork has no neck, A pig does. Besides that what were you expecting?? Hamburgers and Fries along with some of those mild tasting beer than you guys think are the best in the world? Have you not tasted any other food from other countries besides those that are in your country that makes your country one of the fattest country in the world?

If this was coming from a person in say, a lesser developed country, I may understand BUT these people! They claim they are the super powers of the world, they claim that they are the protectors in the world. And probably, if one were to throw an unidentifiable food product towards them, they would probably turn around and run fearing that it is a bomb!