Your answer is?

greg334

Veteran Expediter
You are being interviewed on national television and asked this question;

Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the United States on a world map. Why do you think this is?

And you, as the representative of the youth of America respond with this answer;

I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don't have maps, and, uh, I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as and I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., er, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our children.

Do you think this is possible or was it really written for an SLN sketch?

You know once upon a time we had our youth’s intelligence showcased on radio and tv shows but this is a great step backwards.
 

FireGears

Expert Expediter
"... a fifth of Americans can't locate the United States on a world map..."
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IMHO there are several reasons...

One-fifth of Americans...
Define "Americans" ...
are these citizens, legal aliens, criminal trespassers..??
This probably indicates that many within
the "one-fifth of the population" are non-citizens
who quite often have a much lower educational background.

Education System...
This has been discussed before..
the "dumbing-down" of our (USA) school "graduates".
It should be no surprise that a person who
cannot make change has a problem
with a geography question.

Education System...
With the new one-world-government crowd the teaching
of "boundaries, language and culture" is NOT a priority.

No Map...
That's funny... Really.!!!! :7
This should no be a problem for a person
with an education in geography.
Example ...I don't have a globe in my home but
I can find the USA if asked.

Do you think this is possible..
Not only possible but probably MORE that indicated by the poll.

BOTTOM LINE ...
Carry a map and educate as many as possible ... ;-)

STAY FROSTY ... :+ :+

plus ...
 

LDB

Veteran Expediter
Retired Expediter
Unfortunately it's possible and was the response by one of the miss teen USA contestants to her question. I believe it was miss S.C. who placed third overall. On her behalf, I'm pretty sure she's never been televised to a nationwide audience prior to that so certainly had to be nervous. Additionally, I don't believe they are even shown a list of questions theirs will be drawn from much less what it will be to be prepared in any way. That isn't to say that one wouldn't hope for better composure and a more lucid answer to whatever question was presented, just to point out a couple of factors working against her.

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highway star

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I saw her on the Today show. It was a stage fright, being in shock type of thing. She seemed fairly lucid and had a sense of humor about the incident.
 
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