Once again, if Americans are so dumb, then why are we producing more Nobel Prizes in science than every other country combined? The United States is THE dominant nation in science and technology. China and Japan are a joke when it comes to science. They're good at manufacturing and ripping off other people's ideas, but they suck at doing original research.
The education "crisis" in America is essentially a myth. We've got a lot of dumb blacks and Mexicans pulling everyone down, but white kids are up there with the rest of the industrialized world in terms of their science and math ability. It is pure foolishness to think otherwise.
Are you saying the Japs aren't innovative?
Their mobile technology is always years ahead of the west. They lead in robotics and other such fields too plus they have the first petaflop supercomputer.
South Korea is also highly innovative, especially in computer memory and chip design.
I agree with you on China, but you sound like you're grouping Japan with them just because they both have slanty eyes!