Really, your friends, nieghbors, family members are dying in places like this and others. I bet you have a political stance on it, why don't most of us know where it is?
2007-09-23 17:54:38 · 13 answers · asked by Rubber Cranium 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I think the problem is geography is not well taught in school.
2007-09-23 18:08:18 · answer #1 · answered by tj is cool 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I was a child, it was Vietnam, not Iraq, that was constantly in the news. Most people couldn not locate that country on a map even though at the time, it was two countries, not one. The reason more people can't locate themselves on a map is because they consider geography a boring and useless subject. If you ask schoolchildren what their least favorite subject is, chances are they will say it's geography.
2007-09-23 19:02:17 · answer #2 · answered by RoVale 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Give the map reference to a world wide fleet of mercenary bomber pilots including those of Afghanistan and its borders with Pakistan and the vile heart itself - Saudi - then let them carpet bomb, round round the clock the whole evil despotic regions.
Were getting no where, nothing is being achieved, US billions being wasted, countless US and Allied lives being sacrificed daily while US & Allied smug appeasment politicans play it all down, render forth with every conceivale lie and/or misjudgement of the day thinking its just a card game to play - as indeed they did with Vietnam!!
2007-09-23 20:23:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most US people don't know where the individual states are on a map. Our kids are taught a bunch of useless socialist propaganda instead of useful items like reading, writing, history, math, and science and yes, geography (anything international in focus is generally ignored in US schools).
2007-09-23 19:07:32 · answer #4 · answered by Caninelegion 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
#1. Because most U.S. citizens slept through Geography class- in High School. & #2. Most of those SAME people- could care less. Trouble has to come to visit THEM personally- before they'll pay any attention to it- anywhere else. And by THEN, -it's too late. :(
2007-09-23 18:08:05 · answer #5 · answered by Joseph, II 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The study you're talking about actually refers to young Americans, not adults.
Also, it's not just Americans who can't find things; kids in the Middle East didn't know where Iran was, and they live right nearby.
They also have trouble identifying Japan, Louisiana, and the Pacific Ocean.
2007-09-23 18:19:28 · answer #6 · answered by Bellicosa 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I find it incredibly hard to believe that people don't know where Iraq is now given current events. I can see them not really knowing where other countries are located because we're raised to be very insular. We learn geography and then it's forgotten as it doesn't matter because we are where we were meant to be - generally.
2007-09-23 18:03:16 · answer #7 · answered by Lex 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Iraq? C'mon, most do by now. However, we Americans do have a rep in the rest of the world because of our sorry Geographical knowledge. Of course, there are exceptions.
2007-09-23 20:32:09 · answer #8 · answered by pegasegirl 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think everybody knows where Iraq is on the map.
2007-09-23 18:05:09 · answer #9 · answered by discoveryman 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because they just don't teach geography in most schools the way they did when I was in school, that and it is just not important to most people.
2007-09-23 18:02:47 · answer #10 · answered by BILL 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋