I never said that Americans were smarter. Not at all. In fact, Americans (and others) think that just because we have "progressed in technology" that we have progressed.

We are still backwards in our thinking and emotions. Does not matter how brilliant someone is in Math or Technology, if that person has hatred,they are hateful. How are we in 2022 and cannot understand that slavery of the blacks was brutal? That the holocaust was brutal? That human trafficking in general is brutal?

How are we in 2022 and use terms like race/language/ethnicity/nationality interchangeably? So, no, I do not think Americans are smarter. Like any nation, we still have some growing up to do, but many of us are waking up.