Originally Posted by TheLegacy

About 11 percent of young citizens of the U.S. couldn't even locate the U.S. on a map. The Pacific Ocean's location was a mystery to 29 percent; Japan, to 58 percent; France, to 65 percent; and the United Kingdom, to 69 percent.

Particularly humiliating was that all countries were better able to identify the U.S. population than many young U.S. citizens. Within the U.S., almost one-third said that population was between one billion and two billion; the answer is 289 million.

"It gives the sense that there is this Americentric thing going on?that we are big and powerful and have all these people in our country," said John Fahey, President and CEO of the National Geographic Society.


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...perSurvey.html


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wow.. there are 11% of americans posting on GFY? thats a shitload