User blog comment:Kacj321/The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Leaked/@comment-121.218.88.68-20111103225850/@comment-4113369-20111104180113

"Typical European trash talk"? That's stereotyping just as much as calling americans stupid. And it's not that americans are stupid per se (they aren't dumber on average than people from most other countries), but that they have a horrible educational system and, as such, most of the country's scientific progress is made by immigrants. Take a listen to Michio Kaku:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK0Y9j_CGgM&feature=topvideos_science

(And didn't Joseph Swan invent a light bulb before Edison?)