I can only agree with what you say (Well, except maybe what you say about immigrants in the US, but that's only because I am totally unbiased as these are local 'problems' ), otherwise I couldn't sleep anymore at night; Just imagine a country with no other people than dumbfucks, AND nuclear weaponry

About the geographical Issues: I can remember one episode from my time at school where our teacher called us to show some points he named on a map of Europe, in front of the class. We had one girl (which wasn't dumb otherwise) who couldn't show Hungary or Poland on the map, and as the teacher asked on she went more and more uncomfortable whith her performance. At the end she wasn't even able to tell where was north on the map.
I think she had a bad case of stage-fright, now transform this situation to the one where you face a camera and a microphone
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