Question

to LAZY AMERICAN KIDS: learn the message in this video
http://youtu.be/AAEB-5GOCJ4?t=1h13m14s

Answer 1

Firstly, your topic specifically calls out a group of people in an insulting general manner. It's slightly racist, and this has nothing to do with OpenStudy Feedback.

Answer 2

Agreed. ^

Answer 3

Idk I think there's some truth in it, and it's pretty obvious by some of the questions even asked on here, just my thought.

Answer 4

No offence but take it in other way @Compassionate
It's american kids who are lazy and not all american kids are lazy :)

Answer 5

They are lazy, they are ill-prepared, and they have been coddled in a "feel good" grading system for years in K-12, so they have no incentive to work hard.
Its not their fault for being lazy, the environment around them shapes them the way they are. To them, the messages and the motivational speeches are worth nothing.

Answer 6

perhaps.... perhaps

Answer 7

and YES, I am calling out to a certain group of people
but the question is, are you one of them?

Answer 8

all you have to do is deny that you're lazy and this message will not apply to you :)
it starts with being honest to oneself

Answer 9

I'm slightly offended by this. Being a true American citizen, I can proudly say that no other contry has more swag than us. We make THE BEST HAMBERGERS IN THE WORLD!!! Coming to think of it, we're literally the best contry around.

Answer 10

BERGER huh, you're so german

Answer 11

I cannot deny and I cannot agree, as I'm not an american. :)

Answer 12

Stop talking bad about my contry.

Answer 13

In a way, @freethinker you are part of the problem because here you are coming along with a complete disconnect from the very people who need the help. Do you really think someone who needs to hear this message you're trying to give them has the attention span to watch an hour long video like this on youtube because some person insulted them on the internet saying they should?

If you want to help, do something that isn't just an empty act like this. You need empathy to understand where these kids are coming from, you can't just say "GO". Rome wasn't built in a night and that's ok. See, while we're here and seeing these kids we all have an opportunity to help and show them something different. You can't save everybody, and I'm not saying I'm perfect or anything like that.

We're all just a bunch of people, and a lot of the people here are really just lost among the many ways and that's ok, I get frustrated too. But we can't think of it as "us vs. them" because we're literally all in this together on a big isolated rock magically going in circles.

Answer 14

^ I Didn't Read All Of That, But GOD BLESS AMERICA

Answer 15

the message is only less than 5 minutes, about the same length as a music video :)

Answer 16

@ParthKohli you're such a patriot. :)

Answer 17

it only becomes an insult if it is applicable

Answer 18

Game Boy Advance = GBA = God Bless America

Answer 19

I am not going to defend laziness

Answer 20

Guess we can say that...

you're too lazy...

to defend laziness!

Answer 21

lmao

Answer 22

Wow! i have seen this guy. this guy and morgan freeman show up everytime i put discovery channel. i use to wonder why the physics guy spends more time in studio than his research lab... but i couldn't get to know about his personal life much, bit excite to watch this video now that you recommended xD

Answer 23

they get interviewed from time to time
and he teaches at City College of NY

Answer 24

that's not Morgan Freeman
that's Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Answer 25

I wouldn't want to be one of his students though. It'd feel like I was watching NOVA channel

Answer 26

Morgan Freeman, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Brian Green and Michio Kaku all narrated for the NOVA Science Channel, I am not sure if they all did for Discovery

Answer 27

anyways, he was echoing a political statement about the current affairs in the United States and I empathize with his sentimentalities (original meaning)

Answer 28

i remember a user pretend to be @Michio.Kaku lol

Answer 29

:3 i wished at that time that its truly him xD
http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/538ac87de4b02fec90351c83

Answer 30

It wasn't I exposed him :c

Answer 31

Somebody close this

Answer 32

Clickbait

Answer 33

@Ashleyisakitty ...?

Answer 34

I understand the reason why you posted this, but you could have worded it better, and in no shape or form is this "Feedback."

Answer 35

Michio Kaku is awesome, but i wish he would stop talking about string theory as if it was the truth.

Answer 36

A recent study showed that highschool students had the same level of anxiety as insane asylum patients from the early 1900's. (30's or 40's i think). It's ridiculous to try to generalize a whole population of students as lazy in the school system. The US is a diverse country and there a millions living in it. there are lazy and there are hard working students and if you compare the school work from now to back then ( preferably the 20th century) you'd be surprised at how the work has doubled. Yes there may have been some changes such as technology and the internet that may seem as though we take it for granted but really this improvement should be applauded instead of criticized. Students such as me have bigger and better opportunities in the world due to our position in the modern world and although some misuse it, it doesnt represent an entire community. Its better to have an easier and more productive educational community than an very old and simplistic one. Some of us are hard workers, others are not. Big whoop.

Answer 37

I just would like to let you now that not all American children are lazy. Some are trained to be hard workers and get good grades in school . I agree the system Americans use is very people pleasing. People live with their parents until they're 30. But you can't be stereotyped about it. Not everyone is lazy. @freethinker

Answer 38

@freethinker and how do you think hard working American children would feel about that. It's wrong of you to accuse people of being lazy when the whole may not be.

Answer 39

Thanks Olaf. I work hard walking dogs, studying, scrubbing floors, and babysitting and this happens -_-

Answer 40

Ah yes, every single american ever. every one specifically, is lazy. Every single one of them.

Answer 41

butthurt americans are butthurt.

Answer 42

Wow..you are a mod? I don't believe this! -_-