Lord Londonderry
Banned
Latest survey coducted in the US concludes that 6 in 10 Americans don't know where to locate Iraq on a map of the world.
We are in good hands!!!!!!!!!!!
We are in good hands!!!!!!!!!!!
Where is Iraq?
ASTRALdragon
Active member
Somehow I'm not very surprised. A large majority of Americans are uneducated and not quite bright. I know because, well, I went to school with them. The one fear I have of my country tis of thee is that Americans might become too arrogant and one day lose their place as the lone superpower in the world because they were blinded by pride.
Lord Londonderry said:
Unfortunatly this goes not only for the Yankees. I taught geography (I recently switched job) and came to the conclusion that topography is a rare trait. Last year a tv host went to a popular location in Spain and asked the Dutch people, who spent their holidays there, where they were. Most of them could not pinpoint Spain and disturbingly many didn't have a clue where Spain was in Europe... not even close.
So it is wide spread and this is just the beginning.
Italian Guy
Milforum Hitman
They keep coming with this BS, they just keep coming.
It is an extremely common cliché in old envious Europe that the Americans are ignorant and would not be able to find a country on a map.
I would really like to see how many Europeans would be able to find Hungary or tell Lithuania from Belarus or Bosnia from Croatia or Belgium from the Netherlands or how many of them would with no doubt find Slovenia on a mute map of Europe.
Let alone rest of the world.
I believe out of 100 Europeans barely 15 % would be able to find Iraq on a mute map of the world.
So please.
It is an extremely common cliché in old envious Europe that the Americans are ignorant and would not be able to find a country on a map.
I would really like to see how many Europeans would be able to find Hungary or tell Lithuania from Belarus or Bosnia from Croatia or Belgium from the Netherlands or how many of them would with no doubt find Slovenia on a mute map of Europe.
Let alone rest of the world.
I believe out of 100 Europeans barely 15 % would be able to find Iraq on a mute map of the world.
So please.
Italian Guy
Milforum Hitman
Right. Come on I love Canada but yeah when I was there my girlfriend's family were 1.mom Teacher and 2. son and daughter with a degree. And still they were shocked to hear we have blond people in Italy. So much for ignorance around the world.
Italian Guy
Milforum Hitman
Doubt it though?!
ASTRALdragon
Active member
So, I guess a good summary of the responses to this topic is: every country has a portion of its population that cannot pinpoint where x country is. I guess topography and geography is a trait. Just like math!
Italian Guy
Milforum Hitman
phoenix80 said:
And no blondes?
IT is very commen if most the commen Americans do not know where Iraq is.I think the same happens in China.Or at least we can think in this way:they need not to know where Iraq is ,cause GPS can tell them where Iraq is,or the missiles can know Where Iraq is,the satellite can tell them.
ASTRALdragon
Active member
yingying said:
I don't think it's localized to just Americans or Chinese; it's just a people trait. Some people do not retain certain knowledge as well as others. Considering geography is not as widely used in everyday life as say... language, then people tend to forget. I'm pretty sure everyone here has stared at the global maps in your elementary or high school classes only to forget it a few months later. I'm pretty sure if you go around and ask people what Descartes Rule is or draw out Pascal's Triangle, they wouldn't know even though they most likely learned it in middle school. Some of my friends still get freaked when they drink water and I tell them, "Stop! You're drinking dihydrogen oxide!!"