Alec Baldwin Says Americans ‘Know Little or Nothing About the World’

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1. I actually agree. Color me surprised.

2. And?

3. Yep. Also, most other countries’ folks are bilingual, unlike Americans.

4. Thats no lie

5. We know that at a minimum, 76.8m Americans are too stupid to want to live.

6. Ever watch Jimmy Kimmel’s street interviews with people about current events? Scary. I hope they are cherry-picked for ridicule, but not so sure.

7. He’s correct. Our infrastructure dates from the 1950-s, and now, so does our politics, but the 1850-s

8. The saddest part is that thet’ve *always* been. Trump isn’t the disease, he’s just a symptom…and USA has been infected for a long time…

9. And Alec knows little to nothing about firearms safety.

10. Yep. Trump is the perfect avatar.

11. Most don’t want to, and our news media doesn’t want us to either. The more we learn about people in other parts of the world the more likely we are to humanize them. Instead of an invisible and malicious other you realize they are just a person the same as you. It’s a lot harder to make them the scary villian the media likes to potray when you see their humanity.

12. Well he’s absolutely correct.

13. Well, at least most of us know that when you pull the trigger on a loaded gun you might accidentally kill someone. I wouldn’t take any advice from this fool

14. He might be a jerk but it’s not like he’s wrong.

15. 100% agree. I think the average American has no idea how the modern world works. The real problem is that they think that they do.

    When you think you know everything, you lose curiosity. You don’t try to learn. Sometimes you even run from knowledge because you don’t want to be told that you don’t know as much as you think you do

16. Baldwin family owns much of the island of Maui in Hawaii. They were part owners of the A&B sugar plantation. I hope this informed Americans of something new. 

17. In Europe – in a lot of places in the world – it’s very easy to go somewhere and get experience with a completely different culture.

    England and France are 21 miles apart – with profoundly different cultures.

    In England – in many places – you can get to an airport easily with mass transportation. We don’t have that in the US – and it’s by design unfortunately. Then, factor in the cost, and the lack of any sort of real social fabric to support traveling, and you get … <gestures at the US>.

18. Ha. Like this dude knows Americans.

19. I became an American citizen this year, I was born in London, England. Where I lived was close to an American Air Force Base, so I knew a lot of American kids, either through school or my first out of school job. I moved to America on a work permit organized by one of my American friends, so a lot of my real close friends are well traveled Americans, that embraced other countries and cultures.

    I started out in Denver, Colorado, but I moved to Michigan in 2001, and it was a different world. So many people I still know and get to know today haven’t even left Michigan in their lifetime, let alone traveled to different countries. Talking to people and my American family they just didn’t learn much about things outside of both world wars and American History, where as even at middle school level we did American history in English schools.

    But then America is so massive, different cultures, people are different from state to state. I do understand there isn’t a need to travel outside of America, but I always recommend it to anyone that I chat to. The education system isn’t helping with such a closed minded view of the world, teaching kids the rest of the world doesn’t matter.

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