[lbo-talk] Re: japanese can't find korea

[Mark S]

frank scott wrote:
>
>"Actually that doesn't sound too bad, since you have to be at the 90th
>percentile of US high school seniors to locate the Mississippi River
>& the Rockies on an unlabeled map "
>
>i don't think many schools, if any, teach geography any more...i mean
>grade, middle and high schools....
>
>i've had dozens of community college students who were bright, even
>sophisticated and mature, who didn't know shit from shinola about
>geography...
>
>some of them only knew about road maps, from driving,  but had little or
>no idea where places in the united states were found  on a map...when it
>came to the world, complete zero...
>
>they were never taught anything about it, so how could they know?
>
This ignorance is an endless source of mirth in Canada:

http://home.comcast.net/~wwwstephen/americans/

M.

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