According to a poll, one third of Americans can’t find Louisiana on a map and a half of Americans can’t find Mississippi.
Hrm… hold on a second. Frisky, can you find Louisiana on a map?
“It’s right here.”
So if you’re a part of that one-third of Americans who can’t find Louisiana on a map, you’re dumber than a cat.
As for this news:
While Israeli-Palestinian strife has been in the news for the entire lives of the respondents, 75 percent were unable to locate Israel on a map of the Middle East.
Iran’s working hard to make that 100%.
Ya know, I am kinda ashamed about that, really. It can’t be that hard to look something up.
wrong…yet funny.
Wouldn’t this be more of a comment on the public education system? Is it really that shocking that a predominantly liberal institution doesn’t want to teach facts – only ideals?
2/3 of Americans spend their precious free time watching people grub for worms(Survivor)
watching a successful man with a bad wig humiliate contestants who vie to work for him ( You’re fired) watching barely talented individuals who will allow judges (who’s own talent is largely in question) to abuse and misuse them.
Let’s not forget the losers in the BB house and the vapid, self absorbed model want to be’s.
Many in America don’t want to and can’t live in the real world. They don’t want to be responsible for anyone else and they certainly aren’t responsible for themselves. Who cares where Louisianna is? It has nothing to do with me or my life is the mantra you’ll hear from them. I’m frankly surprise 1/3 of America can find it’s collective but with both hands and a flashlight.
Sorry I sort of hate people as a species today. It will pass, it usually does.
Seanmahair,
The sad thing is….I think that’s Donald Trump’s real hair.
And who said cats were dumb?
Lets face it. Most people are dumber than a bag of hammers! Unfortunately, the libs know that these ham and eggers are easily pursuaded and rely heavily on them come election time.
Louisiana? Never heard of it.
Louisiana? Never heard of it.
It’s a city outside Seattle, which is in the southern province of Israel.
Everybody knows that. Duh.
Maybe those 1/3rd people were using UN-supplied maps that have missing states, like the one missing Israel.
Louisiana, Israel….see the resemblance?
What does Iran have against Louisiana?
Also, it’s easy for a cat to find Louisiana because it’s the state that smells the most like fish.
Louisiana… isn’t that where iced tea comes from?
What’s a map?
Master Shake
PhD Human Geography
Harvard
Medic, I think the point was for them to be asked on the spot without being able to look it up.
Redneck, I would disagree with the assertion that it’s liberals who are responsible for geographic apathy. I think it’s much more of a result of specialized jobs and the general materialism of America. Not many people actually do have to know where Louisiana is, and not many would benefit from that, unless they were male teenagers, but that’s another story.
Wait . . . I need to figure out if I know where Louisiana is. It’s near Texas, right?
It’s not just Louisiana they can’t find.
When I was moving from New Hampshire to Utah and arranging for my utilities to be cut off, the gal from the power company took down my address. “Utah?” she asked, “where’s that? is it by California?”
“It’s a couple of states in from California,” I replied.
“Oh, OK,” she said. Pause. “How do you spell ‘Utah’?”
Our public education dollars at work.
It’s understandable that they can’t find Louisiana.
After Katrina, most of Louisiana is strewn across Mississippi and Texas, and New Orleans is part of the Gulf of Mexico.
This is really just sad. My 4th grade brother can find frickin Uzbekistan on a globe, it used to shock me that people can be so dense. But every day that passes I lose a little bit of faith in the human race.
“Oh, OK,” she said. Pause. “How do you spell ‘Utah’?”
Ouch. I can almost understand not knowing exactly where it is – I get New Hampshire and Vermont confused – but it’s FOUR LETTERS.
When I was vacationing in LA, I had to present an I.D. to a sales clerk. She noticed I was from South Dakota and mentioned that she had never seen anyone from there before. I told her, “That’s okay, there are only about 700,000 of us in the whole state, and we don’t get out much.” She stared at me blankly and said, “Why don’t you have a southern accent if you are from the south?”
I said “I don’t know, I guess it is because we are several hundred miles farther north than you are. “Why don’t YOU have a southern accent?”
She looked at me and said, “But we are southern CALIFORNIA that is not the same as the south, like you are from.
The thing that bothers me about the yahoo’s who want to harp about people who supposably cannot find [enter geographic loacation here] on a map. Is these people are not asking thesse, apearantly less then smart, people really meaningful questions. Like, for instance, “can you spot the intellegent thought coming from Ted Kennedy’s mouth?” Anybody? Hello? Thought so.
Best Regards, CHOW
I’ll admit, us Californians don’t get out much, aside from going to major coastal cities. Don’t bother asking us where states are beyond NV and AZ…We’ve got more “important” things to think about like how to avoid making a 17 mile/ 90 minute commute on the 405 freeway and whether or not to flake on all our friends for the evening in the event that it rains. Hey, until I moved to PA in 05, I didn’t realize that West Virginia actually boarded Pennsylvania – and I moved here to start grad school!
Testing our blue state liberal educational system I asked Moonbunny if she knew where Louisiana was and Moonbunny had the audacity to ask if Louisiana was a state.
Naturally, I smacked her upside the head as any good conservative parent would do.
I know, and apologize ahead of time that this isn’t a funny comment, but…
Some of these things (mentioned in the article) no American truly NEEDS to know about….
And some of them are intentionally misleading.
I wish the AP had said useful stuff like, what were the ages of these “young Americans”? Where were they polled? How many were polled?
Where they given a blank map and asked to identify the almost-precise location? Or were they given a political map without names to point to?
Geographic (geopolitical) illiteracy probably WON’T impact the environment, and if you want an accurate perspective on whether it’s a problem among those who need to know, poll working adults in the white-collar sector.
It’s pretty much NOT a necessary skill for the average American to speak another language. (Other than Spanish, at this rate…)
I thought the big earthquake in 2005 was the one that hit Qom, Iran? Or is it just that Iran has crappy construction that had it making the news?
English probably IS the most widely-spoken language. It’s just that a lot of countries that do all their business in English or the local native tongue, officially have spitFrenchspit as their National Language.
In short, I’m disappointed in the article, and by implication, the survey. And definately the politics of “Let’s ask people who have no reason to know, obscure or pointless questions, then use it as a reason to demand more money from them in taxes!” is annoying.
Shimauma – definitely sounds like a city in Louisiana! Or yo mama’s sister. Or something….
City of ‘Zebras’! Who would have guessed? I guess we can thank the blue state liberal educational system for bilingual education.
Who cares? I think we have enough things to worry about here at home, rather than worry about another country like Louisiana.
//I guess we can thank the blue state liberal educational system for bilingual education//
Hmmm, no, I took interest in the Japanese language by watching “Kill Bill” and the miniseries “Shogun” in the same month. Having paid for these products out of my own pocket, I’d say is was my Republican warmongering bent that educated me in a second language.
Besides, blue states don’t generally offer Japanese, they only offer French and Spanish; French because it sounds arrogant and Spanish because we have no right to force Mexican illegals to learn English to fit in.