Thread: Why 1/5 of Americans can't find the US on a map

Originally Posted by chinthee

Big deal, it's still the most powerful hyperpower ever on the history of the planet. Anyone want to dispute that?

I would've said the British Empire was more powerful relatively speaking.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by chinthee

Big deal, it's still the most powerful hyperpower ever on the history of the planet. Anyone want to dispute that?

I would've said the British Empire was more powerful relatively speaking.

**anyway, it doesn't matter because the Brits and Yanks are on the same side irrevocably anyway.

That's an interesting issue and has been the subject of many academic debates. I think the current consensus is that relatively speaking, British Empire might have been slightly more powerful.

In absolute terms, nobody can argue with the economic, political and military might of the US today.

how'd them Dino's do in their day ??

Originally Posted by Mid

how'd them Dino's do in their day ??

If you're referring to the Jurrasic Park fellas, yeah, they ruled. If you're referring to the Italian Dinos, such as the Roman Empire, that's usually ranked 3rd or so in world history.

the first ones .

gotta be tough being an ex pat 'American these days ...............

individually nice people but jeezus wtf GWB x2 .......................

Originally Posted by Mid

the first ones .

gotta be tough being an ex pat 'American these days ...............

individually nice people but jeezus wtf GWB x2 .......................

Sigh...tis hard. I actually know his father and another brother. Very decent people. How they got this fukin twerp in the family I'll never know.

*please, I don't want to hear from any flamers about the fact I know them.

You do know that more than 1/5th of the people that graduate high school any more can not even read a newspaper, something to do with Equal Opportunity or something, lowering the entrance exam scores for the minorities and no child left behind thingy.

So everything figured in, I think that 1/5th is pretty good.

^ Right, I am not a huge inter-American traveller and have not visited many places throughout the country. What I can say, I went to a mediocore school - I would say that 100% could read a newspaper and a similar amount could point out the USA on the map...if these stats are true, where are all these Americans hiding?

Originally Posted by thaibook

if these stats are true, where are all these Americans hiding?

Alabama.

^ Yes, ok I have heard all about the Southern problems - but is it really as bad a 1/5???

Originally Posted by thaibook

^ Right, I am not a huge inter-American traveller and have not visited many places throughout the country. What I can say, I went to a mediocore school - I would say that 100% could read a newspaper and a similar amount could point out the USA on the map...if these stats are true, where are all these Americans hiding?

They don't know as they can't read the map

Why would they need to locate it on a map when they're already there?

Originally Posted by buad hai

Why would they need to locate it on a map when they're already there?

So they could let family know where they're hiding, in case they want to be found.

There is an absolutely hilarious clip on youtube with Jimmy Kimmel who disects the speech on a big blackboard. too funny to watch, if I get time I'll post the link.

^

MilkandCookies - Kimmel Explains Miss Teen South Carolina Speech

I want to know what you all think about this. Yes, it is embarassing listening to her answer and how she responded. Do you think it was right to publish it all over the news - stories on CNN, Fox, etc. etc.? Taking a bit too far - shes just a teenager. I have been in front of a huge TV before and it's not easy to speak naturally with that machine staring at you. Not only that - but who else could answer questions when millions are watching you live, your standing in high heels and in a bikini? (Hope not that many of you have tried that except for the women here)...

All this map talk and this beauty from South Carolina reminds me of a joke by that bitch Roseanne Barr.

"Men can read maps better than women.
Cause only the male mind could conceive of one inch equals a hundred miles."

Kerux, If I might, Why do you think that Rosanne Barr is a BITCH, I think she is a funny fuker.
Not someone I would like to have in bed, I would prefer Miss Teen S.Carolina for that, but still funny.

My sister went on an education exchange to the USA about 20 years ago, they did not know where Australia was, and could not conceive the idea that it was bigger than Texas, let alone USA complete.
Did some time with the yanks in the army, unbelievably stupid. back then you quickly understood why so many of them died needlessly. They were just stupid.

But like has been said before, There is enough diversity in the USA that some people have no interest in outside issues or places, I am from a small town in the logging and ranching area of Central/Eastern Oregon and a lot of friends have never left there but only to go into the service and then return, never to leave again, my father was one of them, he was first to volunteer for the Army in 1942, went and came home in 45 and never left again.
I left when I was 15 and only went back to live when there was a couple of good earth fill dam jobs going on close.
If there is everything you want at home, why leave.
But some of us are born fiddle footed and we just roam around the world all of our lives, I have been moving now for damn near 60 years, steady.
But because I am the roaming kind, far be it from me to bad mouth a man if he has found what makes him happy just because I never have found it and I damn sure ain't that jealous of him to make bad remarks or call him STUPID.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Well, the topic is why geography ain't too good with them 'merikans - not another septic-bashing...OK?

Gotta agree, these silly maps are getting tiresome, lack of geography is a serious issue, not an opportunity for America-bashing.

Why the ignorance? Something wrong with the curriculum or are people just not interested, as quite a lot of other folks worldwide?

^^ Good post BG.

(Did someone steal your password?)

Ya, nice post, BG.
I get the same in the hamlet near my folks' home. The people there think Japan, China, HK and Thailand are al the same place. They laugh if you miss the sneak turnoff by the crik and don't know where Sanders homestead road is. International news is snippets about disasters. They don't care. In their minds, what happens in the Middle East, for example, ain't gonna affect their crops or stop the square dance next Saturday night. They wanna know what the local MP is gonna do about the road repair and the funding for the elementary school. Everything outside their sphere of living is just 15 seconds of entertainment.

Originally Posted by blackgang

Kerux, If I might, Why do you think that Rosanne Barr is a BITCH, I think she is a funny fuker.
Not someone I would like to have in bed, I would prefer Miss Teen S.Carolina for that, but still funny.

I agree, Barr is funny. And I also agree, wouldn't want to be in the same bed with her.

I think I'm confusing her with Rosie O'Donnell?