Global goofs: U.S. youth can't find Iraq (1 Viewer)

[pete]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Young Americans may soon have to fight a war in Iraq, but most of them can't even find that country on a map, the National Geographic Society said Wednesday.

The society survey found that only about one in seven -- 13 percent -- of Americans between the age of 18 and 24, the prime age for military warriors, could find Iraq. The score was the same for Iran, an Iraqi neighbor.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/EDUCATION/11/20/geography.quiz/index.html

WHERE IN THE WORLD
Among 18- to 24-year-old Americans given maps:

87 percent cannot find Iraq

83 percent cannot find Afghanistan

76 percent cannot find Saudi Arabia

70 percent cannot find New Jersey

49 percent cannot find New York

11 percent cannot find the United States

 

[spiritualtramp]

I was just looking at that on indymedia.
shocking stuff altogether !

 

[IFF]

i'm surprised at that, i thought it would be alot higher