why do American people feel that they have been brainwashed?

Question

Having spoke to many Americans, i am amazed that they feel they have been brainwashed when they were young.In a recent survey 86% of Americans thought that they had been brainwashed.It is thought that teachers do this is American history lessons because there is not a lot to teach them.Anyone aware of this?

Answer 1

this is true...we have become sheep.

Answer 2

UncleRico, if at the battle of independence you were a British colonial fighting against the British government and subsequently gained self governance - where does this turn into Americans kicking the preverbial out of British?? Plus French assistance was required - embarrassing!

I think the Americans are brainwashed into patriotism and loyalty to their flag whereas most other nations are a bit more relaxed about these things.

Answer 3

As an American, I can say that my school teachers did their best to make us all think like little Liberals. After I got out of school, I continued to read widely and found out just what a lousy education that I really received. The problem is that the school systems no longer think history is an important subject.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

I have selected this quote to help you get over your self loathing complex.

"Although I am an Australian, one thing that really annoys me is the constant refrain among non-Americans to the effect that Americans are stupid. How did a stupid people get to be one of the most prosperous on earth? How did a stupid people get to be the world's only superpower? How did a stupid people avoid ever having their cities bombed flat? How did a stupid people produce military equipment so advanced that no-one else can hope to match it? The Iraqi army put up a tenacious fight against the Iranian army but it just went home when a much smaller American military force arrived. How did a stupid people come to dominate the world with its cultural products? Ever heard of Hollywood or American popular music? And even Italians now make "Western" movies. How did a stupid people get to dominate the world with its products and business systems? Ever heard of Coca Cola, McDonald's or KFC? How did America get to dominate the world with its intellectual products? Ever heard of Microsoft or IBM or Intel or all the American Nobel prize-winners? How did a stupid people get to integrate successfully within their ranks large numbers of people from every country in Europe? South America and North America are both large continents well-endowed with natural resouces so how come there is no South American equivalent of the USA? How come prosperity stops at the U.S.-Mexico border? And how come it is Europe that invented both Communism and Fascism and that it was America that had to rescue them from both?

The truth is that Americans are a very wise and sophisticated people who very often affect a folksy style -- such as the style we see the high-achieving President George W. Bush or in the incredibly high-achieving investor Warren Buffett. But the REALLY stupid people are those who cannot see past the folksy style to the hard-working, dedicated, careful-thinking people beneath it. Only people as stupid as most Europeans could mistake style for substance. Really smart people would try to understand Americans rather than condemn them for having their own ways. They would see the folksiness as a sign of a less elitist and more democratic society rather than as a sign of stupidity.

And it is not only Americans who affect folksiness. Australia's most popular Prime Minister in the last 50 years was "Bob" Hawke -- a conservative in most ways but the leader of Australia's major party of the Left. Although he was so thoroughly bourgeois as to be the son of a Protestant clergyman and brilliant enough win a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford university, he normally spoke during his political career with a broad working-class accent. He certainly wasn't stupid but Australia too is a very egalitarian country where people of all classes are treated with respect."

Answer 6

We have been brainwashed to believe we were brainwashed.
Everybody thinks the government is holding back information, but they dont even know basic things in the first place. How can they make that assumption?
If you dont know what the paris peace accord is, then you can consider yourself extremely under educated, and maybe even brainwashed.
The guy above me is pretty typical.

Answer 7

We watched movies, and practiced, at school, what to do if a nuclear attack were upon us. Did you know that getting up under your desk at school will protect you from anything? Sorry guys, not all of us got "brainwashed" !

Answer 8

I feel that a % of American people have forgotton that "in the land of milk and honey - Cows can kick and Bees can sting" - as to if this is because they have been brainwashed maybe and its a big maybe - THEY HAVE.

Answer 9

Yeah, the only American history I can remember is us kicking the holy dogsh*t out of the UK.

Answer 10

america is a walled garden. people inside it arent encouraged to go look over the wall. you have to remember it was created by a bunch of puritans who were kicked out of England...

america is always right. it is never in the wrong, and never ever makes mistakes.. yet from outside the wall looking in, oh we seea totally different picture..its aparteid by any other name. segregation, seperation and subjugation...

the richest country in the world, where if youre black and poor you can die and no one cares. where unless youre white and powerfully connected, youll get screwed and ripped off, or sent to war and die fighting for oil.

the land of the free and the home of the brave.. yeah right... the land of the free.. only if youre white middle class...

the home of the brave... going to fight an illegal war, for dubious reasons, isnt bravery..bravado maybe... the inability to distinguish fiend from foe... and NOT to kill your allies..well thats a good start.

but bravery..no, its terror, and being scared witless on the battlefield.. good god they wont even protect civilian contractors... yet every night GWB tells them..were doin fine, were winning the war on terror... but once youve looked outside the wall..well you know its all just a lie.

Answer 11

they are not as brainwashed as us british, because they still have
possetion of there own country, where as we are manipulated from brussels.