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I haven't understand the topic of this post ?

It started with a sentence by Kb expressing it's point of view about synths and now it's about intelligence in different land saying french are less intelligent that others land.

Well my point of view about this point is following :

I'm french and I had a lot of difficulty at school.
Now I live in London as I have leave France because it breaks my ball so much.
Why ?
Well it's simple, everything was bad :

the state have control over everything like school, transport, money, and as our politicians do exactly the opposite of what the last one do, my country was dancing one each 7 years on different feet meaning everything is inversed each 7 years.
Of course this lead to total animation in the land and with so complicated system and so long buraucratic procedures everything was hard to achieve.
Morever taxs are high and when you try to make your own enterprise, everything is about paper and time and money so it's impossible or near imposssible to open an enterprise legally in France resulting in a lot of businessmen leaving like me for example.
TV shows only american movies and series which features a lot of violence, there is also a lot of singers at TV, and a lot of new stars coming from Star Academy meaning they worth nothing, they were even not beautifull so...
Pepole booze a lot, eat also a lot and do nothing else than complaining about everything.
Those who want to work, do hand on cash work and bypass the state taxs.
A lot of pour strangers come here in the South (I speak about the South of France, I don't know anything else about France) as we have a good social system and a lot of help is given in the shape of money to really pour guys. It's common here to said that those who have nothing here get everything from the state helps and this is surely not entirely false. So when you are so helped and you have nothing to do, your intelligence stay low.
School is full of girls and boys which do nothing except some of them which work really (10%). Some girls wear hot clothes to help sexual attraction and so this reduce also intelligence because when you run after a beautifull girl you don't study. And courses are so boring so... Once you get your diploma with a lot of congratulations, you get no job : bosses say you, you are too qualified and I can't pay you the money you want. Most of the time they even say you : you are clever but you have no experience so I'm sorry I can't employ you. They in fact answer you only in 5% of the case, at least in the IT. National Agency for Employment, send you useless work offer not in relationship with what you want to do or are able to do. So yes with such a lame system and such a lame school, french IQ remain low and it will not be higher as strangers are coming from land where IQ is even lower. When IQ is low, the force became the way to make yours : people which aren't intelligent don't understand explanations so government use Police and Army to make their decisions be applied. Hopefully they have not the same ego as G. Bush. But all in all France became more and more an european USA with it's stupidity and obese.
added on the 2005-01-05 by ep