shaDEz Report This Comment Date: September 14, 2006 11:40PM
bahahaha...
what's sad is this is actually true for ga schools
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: September 15, 2006 01:39AM
Sad but true. The kids learn geog' just fine in school, it's the adults I'm
talking about.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 15, 2006 02:35AM
True enough. But no philosophy so we keep doing stupid stuff OVER AND OVER AND
OVER.
Take for example, low rent puppet regimes in the middle east that are doomed to
fail......
Palley Report This Comment Date: September 15, 2006 04:23AM
Not true Stupid Ones.
We learn geography by all the Trillions of dollars spend helping Countries
escape from Mad Men who want to kill their own countrymen,
who want to destroy peace, who want to kill you and take away your porn.
People who have signs like that have a mental disorder.
PS WHERES THE PORN?
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 15, 2006 01:55PM
True.We don't need geography.We don't care where or what happens in those
fucked-up 3rd world countries.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 15, 2006 03:37PM
"Mad Men" like Saddam Hussien that we funded and sold gas to, with
which he used against the Kurds?
Or "mad men" like Augusto Pinochet, who the USA supported in a coup,
and then who brutally repressed Chile for many years?
Or "mad men" like Manuel Noriega, who was a drug-runner/military
general on the CIA payroll ... until he stopped taking orders from Washington,
and was summarily hunted down.
Or the "mad men" like the so-called "Contras", funded by
illegal arms sales to Iran, and who engaged in a war against "soft
targets" in Nicaragua against the democractically-elected Sandinistas.
I think, Pally, you'll find the US Foreign Policy a little spotty in terms of
"supporting democracy" and "removing bad guys". Seems we
make fantastic deals with bad guys when they do our dirty work.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 15, 2006 05:56PM
The rest of the world has been fighting in wars allot longer then Americans
have.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 15, 2006 11:08PM
(ignores vague comment)
*Geography Greek to young Americans*
Thursday, May 4, 2006;
Posted: 9:44 a.m. EDT (13:44 GMT)
RELATED
Interactive: CNN.com's geography quiz
GEOGRAPHY SURVEY
# Thirty-three percent of respondents couldn't pinpoint Louisiana on a map.
# Fewer than three in 10 think it important to know the locations of countries
in the news and just 14 percent believe speaking another language is a necessary
skill.
# Two-thirds didn't know that the earthquake that killed 70,000 people in
October 2005 occurred in Pakistan.
# Six in 10 could not find Iraq on a map of the Middle East.
# Forty-seven percent could not find the Indian subcontinent on a map of
Asia.
# Seventy-five percent were unable to locate Israel on a map of the Middle
East.
# Nearly three-quarters incorrectly named English as the most widely spoken
native language.
# Six in 10 did not know the border between North and South Korea is the most
heavily fortified in the world.
# Thirty percent thought the most heavily fortified border was between the
United States and Mexico.
Source: The Associated Press
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.
The study found that less than six months after Hurricane Katrina devastated New
Orleans and the Gulf Coast, 33 percent could not point out Louisiana on a U.S.
map.
The National Geographic-Roper Public Affairs 2006 Geographic Literacy Study
paints a dismal picture of the geographic knowledge of the most recent graduates
of the U.S. education system.
"Taken together, these results suggest that young people in the United
States ... are unprepared for an increasingly global future," said the
study's final report.
"Far too many lack even the most basic skills for navigating the
international economy or understanding the relationships among people and places
that provide critical context for world events."
The study, which surveyed 510 young Americans from December 17 to January 20,
showed that 88 percent of those questioned could not find Afghanistan on a map
of Asia despite widespread coverage of the U.S.-led overthrow of the Taliban in
2001 and the political rebirth of the country.
In the Middle East, 63 percent could not find Iraq or Saudi Arabia on a map, and
75 percent could not point out Iran or Israel. Forty-four percent couldn't find
any one of those four countries.
Inside the United States, "half or fewer of young men and women 18-24 can
identify the states of New York or Ohio on a map [50 percent and 43 percent,
respectively]," the study said.
On the positive side, the study noted, seven in 10 young Americans correctly
located China on a map, even though they had a number of misconceptions about
that country. Forty-five percent said China's population is only twice that of
the United States. It's actually four times larger than the U.S. population.
When the poll was conducted in 2002, "Americans scored second to last on
overall geographic knowledge, trailing Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain,
Italy, Japan and Sweden," the report said.
The release of the 2006 study coincides with the launch of the National
Geographic-led campaign called "My Wonderful World." A statement on
the program said it was designed to "inspire parents and educators to give
their kids the power of global knowledge."
