Can You Name a Country?

[demmiblue]

[leftieNanner]

1. Oh Lordy!

I found myself hollering at these people.

That's Australia, you idiot!

No. Africa is not a country!

Mexico? You can't name Mexico??

USA?

Canada?

Geez.

Good Job Sweaty Teddy! (That made me )

[dhol82]

4. I took an elective geography class in tenth grade

We had to draw a free hand map of Southeast Asia and name the countries for an exam.
It was a public school.
However, it was the sixties.

[leftieNanner]

5. Cool

Have you ever seen a video of Al Franken drawing the US freehand?

[Lochloosa]

8. Yep..here you go

[dhol82]

17. That is freaking awesome!

[whistler162]

18. Well things where different in the 1860's

[dhol82]

23. .....

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. I think this is staged, just a skit.

Or, I should say, I HOPE it's staged, just a skit.

[dhol82]

3. Nope. Just your normal, ordinary citizens

[spooky3]

7. It's not. He does segments like this on other shows. For example,

check out the one he did where his staff asked people if they preferred Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act.

His staff obviously edits these and likely omits many people who give intelligent answers. But this one made a good point that Cruz was wrong in lying about who does not know their geography.

[BadGimp]

6. We are literally overrun with Stupid People...

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. My 7th grade sociology class included...

... periodic "map races", as the teacher shouted out the country while two random students raced to point to it first.

There was even a mandatory competition among all of the 7th grade students near the end of the year. (I finally lost a match near the end of it, not reacting fast enough.)

Those kinds of videos are mind-blowing to me.

[bamagal62]

10. When my daughter was in

6th grade (in Atlanta) she was telling her teacher that her brother was born in Prague, Czech Republic.
(She was born in Hong Kong.) He kept calling it Czechoslovakia. And, he couldn’t find it on the map. My daughter found it for him. He was her social studies teacher. seriously. We moved her to a different school in 7th grade. And, this school is a highly rated public school in Atlanta. (We had recently moved from Westchester county NY.)

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. A social studies teacher! Good grief!

I mistakenly used "sociology" in my earlier post about the 7th grade "map races", but it was indeed called social studies. All of those teachers were expected to know that stuff, since the students were expected to learn it too.

My public school was highly-rated for Ohio back in those days, so there were surely other school districts that didn't do such things.

It's mostly been my coworkers from the rural schools around here that consistently shock me by their poor educations. Basic science seems to be their major shortcomings.

[bamagal62]

12. Yes! Her social studies teacher!

I was furious. And, it was my daughter that told me. She even recognized that he should have known both: that it’s no longer Czechoslovakia and that he should have been able to find it on the damn map.

[ironflange]

13. omfg

Some of them seem proud of their ignorance.

[2naSalit]

15. They are...

And they think freedom allows them to be willfully ignorant.

[keithbvadu2]

14. Ask Trump to point out Nambia.

[whistler162]

19. It is right next to Pambia

[lastlib]

16. Some years ago, I saw a study someone did....

Ninety percent of the folks surveyed could not name two freedoms protected by the First Amendment; but over eighty percent of those folks could name all five Simpsons family characters.

(Personally, I'm the polar opposite of those people--I can recite the 1st amendment word for word from memory--but after Bart and Homer Simpson, I'm a dud. Sheesh--I just don't fit in here......)

[hunter]

20. Anti-intellectualism is strong in the U.S.A.

Anti-intellectualism is the only reason the Republican Party and the whack-a-doodle Christian churches still exist.

And the Republican Party and the whack-a-doodle Christians know it.

Which is why they are doing their very best to destroy all schools that emphasize critical thinking skills.

[DeeNice]

21. I admit I would probably do poorly on this.

But I've been using Google Earth randoms to teach myself about places I've never heard of and where they are on the globe. I wish there was a way of doing a random that excludes selected countries.

[Brother Buzz]

22. Uh, some, uh, people out there in our nation don't have maps

I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh, people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future. For our children. - Caitlin Upton

[smirkymonkey]

24. It's really hard to believe that there are so many people out there who are completely

ignorant about the rest of the world.