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AMERICANS CLUELESS ABOUT GEOGRAPHY

Where in the world are Americans when it comes to knowing where in the world everybody else is? Nowhere - that's where.
Ref. Deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,3949,,00.html

Geography and Americans

I think that this fact lends itself to a higher argument. Are Americans less educated that the rest of the world? The answer appears to be yes, but that is indeed a different argument. However, its seems being educated about geography is not given priority and more and more kids can't think of a reason that they would need to know geography of their own country. This is very sad to me, since I grew up knowing where almost every country in the world was. The study of other places and their traditions and cultures was something that always interested me, and it saddens me to see that love go away. In fact, so many people now don't even care that they can't tell you how to get to Iraq, none the less one of our own states.

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Iran? Is That the One We Invaded?:

75 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 can't locate Iran on a map, according to a National Geographic-Roper Public Affairs Geographic Literacy Study in 2006, let alone be grateful for a complicated diplomatic deal crafted half a world away. Ref. Source 9k

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CNN is confused about Australia

THE latest in a series of hilarious fails by CNN proves what we already knew - Americans just aren't very good at geography. Ref. Source 9y.

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Obama: Americans Too 'Lazy' to Know Anything About the Rest of the World:

President Barack Obama said Americans can be "Lazy" because we are so big we think "We don't have to know anything about other people." Ref. Source 4g.