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[inseoul]

In my previous thread about the school who have posted 10 reasons for not hiring Native speakers on their website (including the 'facts' that we all have aids and are queer), someone posted some stats on North American Universities, claiming they make up most of the top ranked Uni's in the World.

I was educated in a New Zealand university and I must say I have seldom come across a North American who struck me as particulary smart or well educated.

That might be because I studied a fairly strict discipline at Uni while alot of the people I have met in Korea studied fairly wishy washy topics (like French History, or Foreign Studies, or the Jamican Political System etc....), or maybe because I am one of the the exceptions to the rule. Or perhaps simply because the study of 'best uni's' is conducted under false pretence and probably by a north american organization anyway.

At least, these are my impressions of both "educated" North Americans and this so called "global ranking" of uni's.

Excuse my case sensitiveness, it is pure laziness.

[Wrench]

It depends on the student any university can be fantastic if only you are an excellent student.

American universities are ranked high because they constantly spew out new research and overall have very high statistics when it comes to graduates.

[ACT III]

Or perhaps the defining aspects of a "smart and well educated" may not necessarily correlate with such things as being articulate. If one graduates from a University that is particularly good at engineering you can't expect that person to have read Shakespeare's Othello. And if this specialization in a particular field of "top universities" isn't outwardly evident, the statement "I have seldom come across a North American who struck me as particularly smart or well educated." is one without merit. The question I have is how do you formulate an opinion on �smart or well educated�? By how they say hi? Their accent? Or perhaps efficiency in small talk?

I imagine that most your interactions with "North Americans" has been on a very impersonal level, maybe water cooler talk. (Which rarely gets into anything more sophisticated then "I want to bang her.") Or maybe you have known a fairly dumb American. But I would have to ask, if they are not your equal in smarts or educated, why are they working in the same field as you?


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Don't underestimate people.
Especially Americans.

[flotsam]

Well, this one is certainly not a troll.

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[Gamecock]

I don't know many Kiwis, but I do know that we folks from the US of A are stupider than Canadians, y'all bein' fluent in 2 languages and all...

...and your University GPA's are all so great...oh wait, is it true that 85% is an A in Canada, and 51% is a passing grade???!!! SNAP!

[DaeguKid]

I was on the board of govenors in my graduating year at uni. As it turned out my school was rated number one in the country the following year by McLeans magazine. Point being is this, the numbers were doctored and enhanced for the publisher. Yes a good majority of it was true, but there was a little mustard on it as well.
In my opinion the top schools in the world come down to funding and what they got in their pockets. If you can afford top end research, professors want to work there. Now to the OP saying that North Americans dont come across as bright, man, and not being personal, but I have met alot of rock head Kiwi Rugby lads in my day. It was only since I came to Korea and having met more Kiwis did my opinion get better of the lads in that country. I, like the OP, am not trying offend anyone here, but more so just voice my opinion on the people I have met and the brains they lack.
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[shifter2009]

In America I had a kiwi roommate and his grades weren't any better than mine. They weren't any worse either. He was an *sshole however. So I don't know what that says about the system.

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