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<<''My teacher taught me americans are very ignorant ''
My teacher TAUGHT me Americans WERE very ignorant.
Shifting of the tenses. >>
I think the tenses are better in the original, at least in GAE. The use of WERE implies that we're no longer ignorant -- I don't think this is the meaning the poster was trying to get across.
I know for a fact that I suffer from the stereotypical American geographical ignorance. In a recent online geography quiz, I couldn't point out Benin on an unlabeled world map, and missed some island chain (Marquesas) by thousands of kilometers.
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Who cares about insignificant countries like those? It's better not to where they are. That way you have less useless information clogging your brain.
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the number of innovations and inventions we've managed to put out in the last 241 years
I's 231 years Stupid
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so it is. You need a comma before your stupid, stupid.
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Unless you consider the beginning to coincide with the end of the war--224 years. But you are correct, I'm stupid simply because I didn't check my math like you did. A mistake I wont make here again. Yet, you still have not managed to prove your original thesis. And you certainly haven't shown that I can't speak my own language.
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<<"My teacher taught me americans are very ignorant so I don't know if they can speak a language well " >>
It sounds like the teacher is very stupid. Her (or his) statement would fail the most basic rules of logic.
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<<Who cares about insignificant countries like those? It's better not to where they are. That way you have less useless information clogging your brain. >>
Lack of geographic knowledge is part of the US American stereotype. In contrast, I assume most Europeans, Latin Americans, Asians, etc. are up to snuff on their Pacific island chains and West African countries.
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