Many Americans cannot identify a single country from a world map? (middle school, psychology)

[jtab4994]

I think most of the people in the China video were women, too. There was the one guy in the blue shirt, the schoolboy, and the 2 dudes. Other than that I think it was all women and schoolgirls. I think those "sailor suits" we see are public school uniforms .

[AlDente67]

True story..I used to work in Jakarta fairly often. A friend who is a top exec at a global firm once asked me where Jakarta is..."middle east somewhere?" I said "wait, you have clients in Singapore, right?" It's near there. Lol.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by AlDente67

True story..I used to work in Jakarta fairly often. A friend who is a top exec at a global firm once asked me where Jakarta is..."middle east somewhere?" I said "wait, you have clients in Singapore, right?" It's near there. Lol.

I've mentioned this before here.......long ago a guy I crossed paths with from back east who legitimately thought New Zealand was part of Eastern Europe.

[Yeledaf]

Originally Posted by Lillie767

People who are voting and making decisions about the future of the US and the global economy should have a basic idea and understand basic concepts about the world.

Let’s turn it around. How about disqualifying people without basic knowledge of the world from voting?

[jtab4994]

Originally Posted by Yeledaf

Let’s turn it around. How about disqualifying people without basic knowledge of the world from voting?

You mean a literacy test? No thanks.

If you open that door you may be confronted with a test you yourself may have trouble passing, like a Carbon Footprint test. Best leave it alone.

[Yeledaf]

Originally Posted by jtab4994

You mean a literacy test? No thanks.

If you open that door you may be confronted with a test you yourself may have trouble passing, like a Carbon Footprint test. Best leave it alone.

No, I did not mean a literacy test. Have the imbeciles point to the United States on a map. If they can’t do that, they’ve got no business voting.

Carbon footprints are for sasquatches.

[deb100]

Just people jumping at the chance to be on television.

[sheerbliss]

Originally Posted by deb100

Just people jumping at the chance to be on television.

Such people aren't necessarily the brightest. Bright people know there's nothing to be gained by being on TV for a man-on-the-street interview, but there is a risk of embarrassing themselves.

[wawa1992]

I'm 27 and could probably get 85-92 percent of them (excluding small island countries), then again I came in third place in my state's geography bee in 2007

I don't think I could point out exactly where Nauru is on a map, but I could get all the major (population at least 50 million) countries, and probably two-thirds of the smaller ones.

I've been interested in geography my whole life, when I was 3 or so I could name all the countries in Africa, I read atlases when I'm on the toilet, I like knowing about the world around me.

[markjames68]

Originally Posted by wawa1992

when I was 3 or so I could name all the countries in Africa, I read atlases when I'm on the toilet, I like knowing about the world around me.

Mommy, we’re out of toilet paper!!

Wawa, just use Antarctica...