My Country Is Better Than Yours

I like patriotism and think everyone should be proud of where they are from. Well, unless you were born during Nazi Germany or something. I also get the competitiveness between nations, which is why we have the Olympics and wars and things like that. But I get sick and tired of seeing articles about how one country compares to another in some dick-measuring contest. 

First off, you have these articles that say things like, Americans were asked to identify countries in Europe, followed by a bunch of juvenile jackasses who are looking forward to being funny, not right. Regardless, this isn't a measure of intelligence, it's a measure of the education of the participants. All 12 of them. 

Second, you have these articles that say things like, 90% of Europeans can't identify the individual states of America. What a bunch of dumbasses to not be able to identify the states on a map of a country they've probably never been to, probably will never go to, and probably don't give two shits about as a nation, and there's only 50 states, so everyone should be able to know them at the drop of a dime. 

Third, why are you using these articles as a reason to bash someone's intelligence, when they're obviously written by someone who really isn't that intelligent to begin with, since I dismissed all of their claims in a few paragraphs? It's entertainment, people, not facts. There are dumb people in all walks of life. Only some of them are smart enough to read my blog. 

Someone probably thinks you are.