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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (12144)2/23/2003 9:19:01 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 25898
 
Re: most people (in the US) know history as well as they know geography- which is to say they don't know anything.

Hey, now! That is an anti-American statement. You should be more patriotic and note that that well over 17% of Americans actually know where Afghanistan is located! But less than 18%.......

Source: Recent National Geographic survey.

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Knowing "anything" is a relative and highly subjective term. I'd guess more Americans know that Brittany Spears is from the South than know that Hamid Karzai is from Maryland. So, there's hope. At least for celebrity geography.



To: epicure who wrote (12144)2/23/2003 9:51:38 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 25898
 
Most people don't stop and "think" about anything. It's easy to sit in front of the tube and swallow everything you hear without raising any questions.

Saddam and Hitler are both examples of tyrants, but that's where the close comparison stops, IMO.

I thought it was interesting to get the reads of those historians in that article.

Pat


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