By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named night,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule
From a wild clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of space
Out of time.
- Computer? No, Charles Babbage, from England.
- Internet? Yes, US Military.
- Radio? Maybe, could be either Serbian, Canadian or US invention (that is, AM and FM).
- Theory of Relativity? No, Einstein, from Germany.
- Mass Produced cars? I'll give you that one, but both mass production and cars weren't American inventions, only the two put together.
I Keaton is an imbecile, and so doea every body else.
-The first electronic computers were at least built in the US. They were invented by many people working together, some in the US, some in Canada, and England.
-The first radio was invented by 2 US twins, although the science behind their radio was thought up by many scientists all over the globe.
-Einstein was in America when he came up with the theory of relativity
I got some more things to add...
*Transistors
*Light Bulbs
*Video Cameras
*Projectors
*Generators
*X-rays
*Rubber
*Plastic
It is true that there are street gangs of kids with guns, but thosemight make up 0.01% of the population, the rest will probably never have guns. That's just a stereotype.
By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named night,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule
From a wild clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of space
Out of time.
- X-rays? No, German discoverer.
- Light Bulbs? Contentious, either English or US.
- Video Cameras? Impossible to tell.
- Projectors? Impossible to tell.
- Generators? Either English, French, Hungarian or Italian, depending on what you call a generator.
- Transistors? Yes, US.
- Rubber? Definitely not! South-American discovery, which wasn't invented anyway!
- Plastic? A generic term, so cannot be invented, rather each type of plastic is.
And oh yeah, from before:
- Phone? No, Bell, English.
- TV? No, Baird, Scottish.
So out of 15 inventions there, only about 5 were actually American inventions. Don't believe all the propaganda they teach you at school, Keaton.
That reminds me, I learnt the other day that Americans don't even learn about any other countries than America. I was speaking to some stupid American girl online, and she had never heard of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham or Berlin. And she was 15 or 16 years old!
America's a pretty massive country, and not all of it's the same - the people round the edges tend to be slightly more world-aware than the ones stuck in the middle.
Secretly I can't stand it when someone adds me to their MSN list and immediately asks what state I live in, as if the rest of the world beyond that isn't worth thinking about. I recall talking to someone that thought England was a state in Russia.
How the heck did you get that poster? I made it for 5th grade! Oh, you must have gotten it from that old site of mine, I knew I shouldn't have posted that link...
Anyway, all the inventions I listed were invented in america, even though some of the people who invented them were born in a different country, they all moved to America at a fairly young age. By rubber I meant the first modern rubber, and by plastic I meant, well, the first plastic material.
Anyway, I'm not saying that Americans are perfect or anything, I'm saying that there's an awful lot of stereotyping going on here. Most Americans really aren't any stupider than Brits, or other people. In fact, a new study has shown that Brits are actually meaner than Americans; seriously, look it up on Google. So really, no country is perfect, and none is the worst. We should all give up our stereotypes now... I'll stop thinking of Brits as old people who spend their whole day drinking tea...
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