I’m tired of my exchange student talking about how easy school is here and how dumb the American kids are.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He’s from Germany. He 17 and has quite an ego. His English is formal, but excellent and he also speaks German and Spanish fluently.
He’s not taking any math or science classes while he’s here because he doesn’t like those subjects.
He comes home from school every day telling me how the Americans can’t read, don’t know geography, history etc. I’m really tired of hearing it.
Help me survive this until June!

Tell him about all the stupids in Germany. I was so tired in grad school about all the Brits, French, and Germans doing this. Then I moved to their countries and realized they were just arrogant prigs - stupid people are everywhere. And furthermore, they are stupid for not realizing this, then going to a foreign country and insulting their host.

So much this.

Anyway he's 17 the majority of them are aholes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:True or not, sounds like he would benefit from learning about the importance of emotional intelligence to be successful in life! Academics alone mean little without being about to navigate social nuances with grace.

This! OP, tell him that in US people are judged on a different kind of intelligence with the highest ranking going to those that know whose behind to kiss when.

[Anonymous]

He's not wrong.

[Anonymous]

I mean just say yes you're right but you are beginning to sound like a broken record. Your observations have been duly noted--no need to remind me daily.

[Anonymous]

Tell him to take the hard subjects if he wants school to be hard. I don’t know how or why he wouldn’t take more math and science. Tell him that people would actually be thinking he’s a dumb one too since he refused to take the hard subjects.

[Anonymous]

Oh I have lots of experience with this! I work with people from many different countries, as I am a physician in a large academic hospital in NYC.

At least once a month a foreign-trained doctor drops into conversation how much smarter everyone is in their country and how much better their foreign education was than US college/med school, usually followed by a complaint about how stupid Americans are.

The complainers include a whole range of ages and nationalities: residents, fellows and my attending physician colleagues, from lots of different countries (France, Italy, Belgium, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, Japan, Russia, Brazil, Nigeria, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Iran, etc etc - although, never heard complaints from anyone from Ireland or Canada).

So, it’s not just a 17 year old kid thing to do - plenty of 23-70 year olds are doing it too!

Not sure why - maybe insecurity?

In contrast to many people on this thread, in my experience, it’s not true that foreign trained doctors are overall far superior to US born and educated doctors. Some are and some aren’t.

I used to gently push back, but now I just nod and smile, and try to change the subject. It is not like I am going to change their mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh I have lots of experience with this! I work with people from many different countries, as I am a physician in a large academic hospital in NYC.

At least once a month a foreign-trained doctor drops into conversation how much smarter everyone is in their country and how much better their foreign education was than US college/med school, usually followed by a complaint about how stupid Americans are.

The complainers include a whole range of ages and nationalities: residents, fellows and my attending physician colleagues, from lots of different countries (France, Italy, Belgium, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, Japan, Russia, Brazil, Nigeria, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Iran, etc etc - although, never heard complaints from anyone from Ireland or Canada).

So, it’s not just a 17 year old kid thing to do - plenty of 23-70 year olds are doing it too!

Not sure why - maybe insecurity?

In contrast to many people on this thread, in my experience, it’s not true that foreign trained doctors are overall far superior to US born and educated doctors. Some are and some aren’t.

I used to gently push back, but now I just nod and smile, and try to change the subject. It is not like I am going to change their mind.

You are not sure why? Have you considered the news??

Virtually every news outlet in the world is focused 24/7 on trying to make America look as stupid as possible at the moment. Think about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"I'm glad you're finding school to be easy, hopefully you're making good connections too. Remind me again what you hoped for in living abroad?"

Culturally, this could also be his way of indirectly saying he's homesick or not making friends. Or he could just be a dick.

He's probably a punk whose parents wanted to get rid of him for a while.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh I have lots of experience with this! I work with people from many different countries, as I am a physician in a large academic hospital in NYC.

At least once a month a foreign-trained doctor drops into conversation how much smarter everyone is in their country and how much better their foreign education was than US college/med school, usually followed by a complaint about how stupid Americans are.

The complainers include a whole range of ages and nationalities: residents, fellows and my attending physician colleagues, from lots of different countries (France, Italy, Belgium, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, Japan, Russia, Brazil, Nigeria, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Iran, etc etc - although, never heard complaints from anyone from Ireland or Canada).

So, it’s not just a 17 year old kid thing to do - plenty of 23-70 year olds are doing it too!

Not sure why - maybe insecurity?

In contrast to many people on this thread, in my experience, it’s not true that foreign trained doctors are overall far superior to US born and educated doctors. Some are and some aren’t.

I used to gently push back, but now I just nod and smile, and try to change the subject. It is not like I am going to change their mind.

People at the top think everyone else is a loser. If they were back home they'd be desperate to come to America because everyone back home is too stupid. And they did!

[Anonymous]

Drop him off at an Aldi shop and go home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He is correct but you can also ask him to point out what great German startups are IPOing next year so you can inform your investment advisor and wait while he is silent.

I'm sure OP's high school has lots of startups IPOing next year!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh I have lots of experience with this! I work with people from many different countries, as I am a physician in a large academic hospital in NYC.

At least once a month a foreign-trained doctor drops into conversation how much smarter everyone is in their country and how much better their foreign education was than US college/med school, usually followed by a complaint about how stupid Americans are.

The complainers include a whole range of ages and nationalities: residents, fellows and my attending physician colleagues, from lots of different countries (France, Italy, Belgium, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, Japan, Russia, Brazil, Nigeria, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Iran, etc etc - although, never heard complaints from anyone from Ireland or Canada).

So, it’s not just a 17 year old kid thing to do - plenty of 23-70 year olds are doing it too!

Not sure why - maybe insecurity?

In contrast to many people on this thread, in my experience, it’s not true that foreign trained doctors are overall far superior to US born and educated doctors. Some are and some aren’t.

I used to gently push back, but now I just nod and smile, and try to change the subject. It is not like I am going to change their mind.

Alot of those are here in the forum posting the same thing, how geniuses they are and people they came from compare to American.
But yet again they are here …. Very telling.

- An immigrant who is very grateful and count every blessing to be here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh I have lots of experience with this! I work with people from many different countries, as I am a physician in a large academic hospital in NYC.

At least once a month a foreign-trained doctor drops into conversation how much smarter everyone is in their country and how much better their foreign education was than US college/med school, usually followed by a complaint about how stupid Americans are.

The complainers include a whole range of ages and nationalities: residents, fellows and my attending physician colleagues, from lots of different countries (France, Italy, Belgium, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, Japan, Russia, Brazil, Nigeria, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Iran, etc etc - although, never heard complaints from anyone from Ireland or Canada).

So, it’s not just a 17 year old kid thing to do - plenty of 23-70 year olds are doing it too!

Not sure why - maybe insecurity?

In contrast to many people on this thread, in my experience, it’s not true that foreign trained doctors are overall far superior to US born and educated doctors. Some are and some aren’t.

I used to gently push back, but now I just nod and smile, and try to change the subject. It is not like I am going to change their mind.

You are not sure why? Have you considered the news??

Virtually every news outlet in the world is focused 24/7 on trying to make America look as stupid as possible at the moment. Think about it.

Eh, this predates trump by years.

You must be young. 20 ish or 30s?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh I have lots of experience with this! I work with people from many different countries, as I am a physician in a large academic hospital in NYC.

At least once a month a foreign-trained doctor drops into conversation how much smarter everyone is in their country and how much better their foreign education was than US college/med school, usually followed by a complaint about how stupid Americans are.

The complainers include a whole range of ages and nationalities: residents, fellows and my attending physician colleagues, from lots of different countries (France, Italy, Belgium, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, Japan, Russia, Brazil, Nigeria, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Iran, etc etc - although, never heard complaints from anyone from Ireland or Canada).

So, it’s not just a 17 year old kid thing to do - plenty of 23-70 year olds are doing it too!

Not sure why - maybe insecurity?

In contrast to many people on this thread, in my experience, it’s not true that foreign trained doctors are overall far superior to US born and educated doctors. Some are and some aren’t.

I used to gently push back, but now I just nod and smile, and try to change the subject. It is not like I am going to change their mind.

You are not sure why? Have you considered the news??

Virtually every news outlet in the world is focused 24/7 on trying to make America look as stupid as possible at the moment. Think about it.

They just have to play videos of Trump talking, not even manipulate the video. Just lusten to him.

It's too easy for him to look and sound stupid. You don’t see it because you have TDS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"I'm glad you're finding school to be easy, hopefully you're making good connections too. Remind me again what you hoped for in living abroad?"

Culturally, this could also be his way of indirectly saying he's homesick or not making friends. Or he could just be a dick.

He's probably a punk whose parents wanted to get rid of him for a while.

Lol. Definitely this. His parents must be so excited not to havr him around at home. Stupid Americans for being so naive to want to take in my child.