I saw something on the news today, about a survey that revealed that almost 30% of people think Mt Everest is in Europe.
My local paper ran an ariticle last year about how nearly 2/3 of 15 year olds don't know when D-Day is, or even what D-Day is. Some of them even think that D-Day is something to do with the war in Iraq (My grandads would be rolling in their graves if they heard people saying that!)
I also saw a question on here last week about the Armistice, and judging by the answers, an awful lot of people don't know what it is or don't even care!
What's happening to people?
2007-11-14 01:57:41 · 7 answers · asked by Vivi 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
*Thought Of Time* I see your point, but history is important, we should learn from our past mistakes so that we don't repeat them. You have to know where you have come from to understand where you are going.
And what about the Everest one? No matter how much time passes, Everest will never be in Europe.
2007-11-14 02:05:31 · update #1
if you didn't knew already, common sense and knowledge is slowly fading in today's world, especially in UK. Here what teenagers know is how to drink as much as possible and how to have as much sex as possible.
Also common sense is rapidly fading here and a lot of ppl DONT have it. You all heard of PC or political correctness. This is happening in today's britain.No more common sense, just PC. as a person living in UK I can clearly see this "nation" is slowly going down.
2007-11-14 02:42:51 · answer #1 · answered by tigerhawkro 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-02 08:23:35 · answer #2 · answered by pollett 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Common sense is very uncommon. Some great person said this ...I don't remember..(lol)
Hey I am frm a country which is very near to Mt. Everest...technically cannot say Mt. Everest is in our country.
2007-11-14 02:33:19 · answer #3 · answered by shankd67 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't forget that most kids now think America fought WITH Germany against Russia in WW2.
Dunno to me it is just people letting kids run wild and parents not doing their job. All I see now is "Schools need to" and "Why can schools teach" about everything..we want sex,drugs,toilet procedure, discipline, etc. Parents don't seem to be responsible for anything anymore..."Oh my kid did bad on test we need to research and redo the whole test so my kid passes with the same score".
Whatever happened to sitting a kid down and saying "You are stupid and will spend your life cleaning puke if you don't study and get your act together" and then letting them live crappy lives if they don't get them together.
2007-11-14 02:05:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
people stopped teaching their children things and expected the children to know things themselves without any tuition.
2007-11-14 03:55:04 · answer #5 · answered by thunor 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
What's happening to people? Time is passing. People don't usually care too much about things that didn't occur in their lifetimes.
2007-11-14 02:01:40 · answer #6 · answered by American Spirit 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
It was never "common"!!!
2007-11-14 02:07:41 · answer #7 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋