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"63% of Americans aged 18 to 24 couldn't find Iraq on a map after we'd been at war there for three years." This is a little off topic, but this statistic is a
by pyoung 15y ago
"63% of Americans aged 18 to 24 couldn't find Iraq on a map after we'd been at war there for three years."
This is a little off topic, but this statistic is a bit disingenuous. The stat implies that Americans are dumb because they can't locate a country on a map, despite the fact that we are heavily engaged with that country. However knowledge of foreign policy and of geography are two different domains. A person could read an article a day about the Iraq war without ever looking at a map of the mid east.
- dextorious 15y ago"""However knowledge of foreign policy and of geography are two different domains. A person could read an article a day about the Iraq war without ever looking at a map of the mid east.""" Yeah. And I wouldn't trust the foreign policy knowledge of such a person. A person not interested in checking out for himself the geography of the place of war, and even the culture and history of the enemies, is just an idiot being force-fed news stories.