* Kun-chan might kill me, but face it, the reason people think Shampoo has a
very low intelligence is that she doesn't speak Japanese very well. However,
it should be obvious that she speaks Japanese better than Ranma & Genma
spoke Chinese. Their problem wasn't a low IQ, but lack of common sense on
Genma's part, and a lack of options for Ranma. With Shampoo, she's not
completely stupid, rather, she doesn't have much experience outside of her
tribal customs. And we all know that her tribal customs are quite different
than normal actions.

She's not stupid - she's just a ditz!

I am neither! *bap*  ^_^

Now that that's over...

I think that Shampoo has low intelligence because she never does anything
of any worth, apart from causing trouble... She does stupid things that
make Ranma end up disliking her more, rather than him liking her more like
she wated... She bounces everywhere like a bimbo... she tries to get into
Ranma's pants, like a bimbo would... And she *looks* like a bimbo, too!
That girl probably shares a brain cell with Cologne... and Cologne stole
it and added a couple of bytes of memory to it and kept it. ;p

Kun-chan...