Americans Can't Find Iraq on a Map

Hamma · 2006-05-03, 11:34 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/05...est/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- After more than three years of combat and nearly 2,400 U.S. military deaths in Iraq, nearly two-thirds of Americans aged 18 to 24 still cannot find Iraq on a map, a study released Tuesday showed.

OneManArmy · 2006-05-03, 12:15 PM

why is that important?

Squeeky · 2006-05-05, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by OneManArmy

why is that important?

Yeah, seriously. Geography is like, totally pointless.

Your attitude reminds me of a conversation I once had.

Me: You hear about those bombings in Bali? Hundreds of people died.
Idiot co-worker: Holy shit, today? When? Where is Bali.
Me: Ya, today. Dunno how long ago. Bali is an island in Indonesia.
ICW: Oh...isn't that like....3,000 miles away?
Me: Erm, it's much further than that.
ICW: Eh, whatever dude. Doesn't affect me.
Me:

Kyonye · 2006-05-05, 07:14 PM

Originally Posted by Squeeky

Me: You hear about those bombings in Bali? Hundreds of people died.
Idiot co-worker: Holy shit, today? When? Where is Bali.
Me: Ya, today. Dunno how long ago. Bali is an island in Indonesia.
ICW: Oh...isn't that like....3,000 miles away?
Me: Erm, it's much further than that.
ICW: Eh, whatever dude. Doesn't affect me.
Me:

ICW = Ban in life

Giovanni · 2006-05-03, 12:33 PM

Well... in my humble opinion. If your going to bomb the shit out of someone you could atleast have the decency to know where they are located.

Kyonye · 2006-05-03, 01:06 PM

It does matter. It shows that many American's don't give two shits about the rest of the world, and even about their own country. It's a straight hit to our pride to know that many of the people my age had trouble pointing out certain states on a map. When I was in elementary school, even though you have to learn about U.S. geography, my teachers barely taught me anything. I'm not saying I can point out all 50 states, but I can find atleast 40 on a map, without any mistakes.

It proves that a lot of young adults just don't care about education, and it's pathetic.

neon · 2006-05-03, 01:47 PM

Originally Posted by Kyonye

It does matter. It shows that many American's don't give two shits about the rest of the world, and even about their own country. It's a straight hit to our pride to know that many of the people my age had trouble pointing out certain states on a map. When I was in elementary school, even though you have to learn about U.S. geography, my teachers barely taught me anything. I'm not saying I can point out all 50 states, but I can find atleast 40 on a map, without any mistakes.

It proves that a lot of young adults just don't care about education, and it's pathetic.

I honestly couldn't say that any better.

Electrofreak · 2006-05-03, 02:05 PM

It's damn shameful.

Rbstr · 2006-05-03, 04:20 PM

I can get every state, and most capitals, that was a realy big thing we had to do in 5th grade.

I'm fairly good with world contries, but quite a few of my classmates aren't as an example:

Today in english we had to share what our favorite place to go was, someone said Prague.

Girl asked "Is that a country or a city."
guy replies: "It's a country"
second girl responds: "No dumbass it's in Spain"

I'm very tired of the anti-intelectual pop-culture thing. My sister, she's about as smart as I am, but if you talked to both us us, you think she was as dumb as a rock(comments such as "Only chinese people can made good chinese food, like at restaruants"). For some reason she has it in her head that being dumb and cute is the thing to do.

internetn · 2006-05-03, 04:30 PM

I like dumb cute girls... Whats your sisters number?

Heh, this is kinda dumb.. Why are we like this? I blame liberal schooling/

Rbstr · 2006-05-03, 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by internetn

I blame liberal schooling/

"Conservative schooling" is 300x worse, if you call public schooling liberal.

Setari · 2006-05-03, 08:22 PM

Can Americans ever learn how to discuss how bad things are without separating it into liberal and conservative?

As for the topic, that's sad, but like Rob said, it's "cool" to be less intelligent.

Mag-Mower · 2006-05-03, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by Rbstr

I'm very tired of the anti-intelectual pop-culture thing. My sister, she's about as smart as I am, but if you talked to both us us, you think she was as dumb as a rock(comments such as "Only chinese people can made good chinese food, like at restaruants"). For some reason she has it in her head that being dumb and cute is the thing to do.

Thats nothing, in my Religion class, the IQ is arround 80. My teacher was talking about the whole CE and BCE thing, and people were going arround thinking that nothing existed before CE, thinking jesus walked with the dinosaurs, they think Abraham came after jesus, they didnt know Vatican was its own country, and some other random crap.

Peacemaker · 2006-05-04, 12:22 AM

Im taking an elective World Civ since 1800. One of the requirements is to lable a buncha stuff on a world map. Most ppl acctualy did it.

Kikinchikin · 2006-05-04, 12:39 AM

You're absolutely stupid if you can't name all 50 states as an adult or even a high schooler. I can personally name most capitals and probably most of the countries as well. Then again I like history and geography, but still that's damn embarrassing.