I agree with lalpari that few americans are really smart or are smart at exploiting others and other countries, but a lot of them are just plain stupid and ignorant. Come on, you cannot compare a nepali villager who has never had any exposure, does not know what media is, has never studied to these Americans, who have very good education, have tons of TV channels, have internet, have read books and newspaper. From my experience of living in far east Asia, Europe and now in America, I can tell that Americans really come across as the least intellegent ones, at least when it comes to common sense. Or else when Church is dying everywhere else, evangelics are increasing in Amrica. Oh boy, they surely take that book seriously. BTW, to those who might have been living in East coasts, I would suggest you to live and meet people from real America, yes the RED american, the the Mid and South states to see what I am talking about.