My research suggests that most Americans are stupid, so how did America become 'The Superpower' ?
449165
Ill just remove my toungue from my cheek while is answer this.  Looking at the other answers i think you have proved your point.  Obvoisley no one has read the question properly, or understood the tone which you set it in!  Most people will either say "hell yeah!" or "im ameican and im not stupid" etc.  \nso i think that most americans on here have a degree of stupidty becuase they have no grasp of irony, and no humour when it comes to laughing at themselves.  Although they are nice people i agree, generally.
265665
As far as the U.S. goes, I see it becoming eventually more like an oligarchy. With the "dumbing down" of the population, we will be in control of the power elite. Few people will have knowlege and power while the rest of the population is so apathetic and uneducated they won't care.\nNot accusing, just warning.
1132079
How could anyone so dumb make it to President?  How could he American people be so dumb as to vote for him?
693566
The problem here is people can't think outside of the box. Americans just love to segregate, and pretend we're the cream of the crop. People forget we're all in this world together, no country is better than another country, we're just all people populating the world.
544650
America is a very powerful nation.  Power is the ability to coerce people to do things they otherwise wouldn't do - and that tends to make people upset.  America is also a very wealthy nation - and wealth generates envy and resentment.  So yes - I'd say America is not widely loved.  So what of it ?  Wealth and power come at a price - are you willing to give those things up just to make people like you ?
423470
America is the greatest country in the world world....they would be crazy to attempt such a feat.
465873
The world hates Americans because they know we have a system of govt where the general population of citizens controls the govt 100%. The problem is, they don't realize how dumb and lazy us Americans are, and they actually THINK we use that authority of ours and we are telling our govt to do this. BUT, what they fail to understand is we ARE dumb and lazy and we just lie back and allow our government to do what it wants to uncontrolled.
655234
i agree. American culture has such in influence on all other countries that they think they know us better than we no ourselves. Idiots oh and God bless America
1064824
Because most of the American people ARE stupid. Geez, just look who they elected as president?!?
299680
No offence, but your government is the pinnacle of ignorance and instead of crossing the line they have blown it up with a bomb. America cant police the world and it will eventually prove to be your downfall in terms of superpower status.
1061571
I am American myself and I asked a similar question on this site, yet i may have phrased it offensively since many took offense. I asked who thought Americans were arrogant and dumb. Many foreigners thought that Americans are. What I think is: America is a very powerful country and with this comes big weights, people tend to be more arrogant and closed-minded since they think America is so great and other countries do tend to be jealous. I have experienced it being born and living here, some are that way, yet there are many who are not arrogant or dumb but open-minded, and they have to take the stereotypics.
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The esoterics would argue that America is simply an idea carried in the hearts and minds of the loud and slightly wobbly people everywhere. \n\nAfter careful study I have come to the conclusion that geographically  it's somewhere below Canada. I'll get back to you...........can you remember where you were when you lost it?
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The US isn't a Superpower now. 'Superpower' implies there's somebody who can fight you. The USA is in a league of its own.\n\nRight now the United States is so far ahead of everybody else, I doubt we'll have been matched even in 50 years.
224054
What in the hell are you claiming,that our U.S.treasury printing presses are faster,bigger or what backs it up is our advanced war machine and two million soldier's if you think this is true, you have a hard lesson to learn! American propaganda is that we are number one, while other countries like China and Korea laugh at us! We lost the war in Korea,Vietnam,Sr's gulf war was a no count and things are not looking to rosy in Iraq! USA being a super power is a myth in only morons minds! I was a volunteer at the end of Vietnam so don,t feed me ant sh-- about cop-out or sell-out!!! Bunch of you have paper hats or in Texas all hat and no cattle!
788971
fact: many Americans like to ask stupid questions that have no apparent point or are too vague for any person to answer accurately.
569605
yeah, America is often viewed as the country filled with people who are uneducated and have no clue what is going on around them. \nI heard a comment from a comedian, he said,\n"As a whole the U.S. is a country filled with idiots, but as a whole they are genius; Russians on the other hand are all Einsteins, but as a whole you can't find a dumber group of people." \nIt's sad, but somehow true, for example, try asking an Average American what the capital of Italy is, or even France. Americans don't care about what is going n in Dafur, in fact 95% probably didn't even hear about the country. Or ask an American to place Iraq on the map... and we are at war with this country!\nThere is nothing that anyone can do about that. But the fact that we are the most individualistic country in the world has something to do with that. People just don't care, they would rather watch American Idol, then worry about what is going on in Congress. Arrogance... \n\nOne day the political arrogance and ignorance of the general population will get us into trouble...
868211
Unfortunately, in the United States, many people are "that dumb" and are easily influenced (manipulated would be a better word) by the rhetoric of the right-wing media.  God help America, indeed!