>It's because the average American doesn't value education like they once use to. American's IMO value entertainment far more. This isn't quite true. You're c

>It's because the average American doesn't value education like they once use to. American's IMO value entertainment far more. This isn't quite true. You're claiming that America used to value education, and this part isn't true at all. America has long been considered an anti-intellectual country. Various thinkers made fun of the country in this way a century ago. There's a famous quote, normally attributed to H.L. Mencken (though it's not sure that he said it): "nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people".