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(13,037 posts)Sad, just plain sad.
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(51,974 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Unbelieveable. It makes sense that they vote for republicans.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,746 posts)No one could even go the easy route and point to the United States and name it.
I mean, I could fill in perhaps 70 percent of a world map. Maybe more, but I wouldn't take bets. It would actually be kind of fun to do.
plimsoll
(1,664 posts)I mean it wouldn't be funny if they got some of them right, but how can you not know where the USA is.
GopherGal
(1,998 posts)we're mostly accustomed to having the "split" be at the dateline, with western hemisphere on the left, eastern hemisphere on the right.
I would think the one that thought India was Mexico might have gotten it right if not confused by the hemispheres.
But you'd think some would have been able to point out "USA" even if they couldn't figure out what Australia was...
plimsoll
(1,664 posts)I've had trouble with polar projections, everything looks wrong. But that was some sort of Mercator projection so stuff had the customary shapes.
tclambert
(11,080 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,846 posts)I worked with two Republican "boomer" women who didn't know George Washington was our first President, or even that his portrait was on the $1 bill!
Another coworker (from Georgia, the country) was studying for her citizenship exam. I asked to look at her study book of possible questions, and I laughed over how they were so easy.
A Vietnamese-American coworker overheard me, then pointed at those two white women and proclaimed they couldn't answer ANY of those questions. " I guarantee with you, they not know anything!"
I replied, "They wouldn't know how many stars are on the flag?! Or why there's that many stars?! Yeah, right!"
So I asked those two women some of those citizenship questions during lunch-break, and the Vietnamese guy was proven right! That's when I asked them even easier questions about George Washington, not included in the study booklet, and they couldn't answer those either (as mentioned earlier)! I said, "His name is printed underneath the portrait!"
One of the women finally replied, "Stop! We're not in school anymore!"
So I sheepishly returned to the Vietnamese guy and he smiled as he said, "See? I tell you!"
BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)It isn't needed. Give it to the police unions instead...