USAians: Could you locate your country on a map?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-shehori/poll-37-of-americans-unab_b_150933.html
37% of USAians can't locate their country on a map. If this forum is representative of the USA as a whole that would mean that one in three of the USAians here can't do this.
This really cracked me up: "Especially the two percent that believed the United States was located on the map's color-coded inset legend.""
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Is that an Asian who's also American? Or is that some new name for Americans someone made up somewhere? Anyway, I can locate my country, and most of the other famous ones. I just can't go so specific as to go into detail on all of the countries I know of, and where they are etc. One more thing though. Americans generally don't have to learn about maps. We learn basic knowledge of what one is, what they are used for, and how to use it, but we don't ever really need it since the likely hood of leaving the U.S. is low, and instead of learning all of this info about other countries and their locales we'll most likely have to know quite a few street names within the country already, making learning more than that useless and mentally taxing. Side: Yes
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Disregard all of that longer post. I can't believe so many, or any person for that matter, couldn't locate their country...on a map of their country. I imagine they were caught off guard by the fact that the whole thing was America and just didn't feel like thinking about it. Side: Yes
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