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Miss Teen South Carolina gets it horribly wrong

Perhaps there were a lot of infants and babies polled to get this stat? :confused:

I feel sorry for her. It was funny to watch, but agree that it really is a stupid question.... like most pageant questions.
 
floriflee said:
I feel sorry for her. It was funny to watch, but agree that it really is a stupid question.... like most pageant questions.
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True, but the question was still answerable. All she needed to say was that there needs to be more focus on the US, from a global perspective, included in school curriculums and perhaps suggest something like getting kids to use Google Earth on the computers at school.

I really think that nerves just got the better of her. Still makes me laugh though. :D
 
For anyone in London...

...this video made it to the London Metro today!

I still would.

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Much Ado said:
Lets not be hard because after all in the Macrumors we can easily to try to be fair with macs and PCs but when in this sort of thing there is not often ways to regard other people in difficult situations who under the sort of pressure that with questions can't often think as in many for the compare with the whole of the United States and so we cant poke fun and in this way be American for in this we are together at least and not apart like an acorn and a tree but united as one which is where we ought to see beyond this.
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Is that you Miss Teen S. Carolina?

floriflee said:
Perhaps there were a lot of infants and babies polled to get this stat? :confused:
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I doubt it. I completely believe the statistic, and wonder if it isn't a bit low. A lot of people are stupid here. A lot. I've dated some of them.

I just can't watch it anymore. Even the parodies. Of which there are many. Kinda feel sorry for her. Just makes me sad now.
 
solvs said:
I completely believe the statistic, and wonder if it isn't a bit low.
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HA, you would believe it. :D If that stat is true its probably including kids under 10 yrs.




"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because...ah some...people out there in our nation don't have maps and...ah...I believe that eh-education such as in South Africa and 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. or-or 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 gen..."
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Miss Teen SC gets a second chance! :eek:


Much Ado said:
Lets not be hard because after all in the Macrumors we can easily to try to be fair with macs and PCs but when in this sort of thing there is not often ways to regard other people in difficult situations who under the sort of pressure that with questions can't often think as in many for the compare with the whole of the United States and so we cant poke fun and in this way be American for in this we are together at least and not apart like an acorn and a tree but united as one which is where we ought to see beyond this.
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Wow, that's what I call a run-on sentence!
 
Canada - USA

I remember a little poll that was reported on here in the Ottawa Citizen, where people were given a blank map of North America and asked to draw the border between USA and Canada. I can't recall the details (if someone knows what I'm referring to, please back me up with a link) but they asked both Americans and Canadians. The results were very interesting. A lot of people weren't even close -- according to one person, the Canadian border is somewhere near California, and according to another, the USA swallows up all of the Great Lakes, and then some.

Granted, I probably could only get as far as a straight-line approximation. It's not something one tends to think about. :)
 
Scarlet Fever said:
I did a quiz thing a while ago, i forgot where it was (i think it was National Geographic. I'm looking for it now), and 98% of Japanese people found Japan on the map, while only 89% of Americans found the USA on the map. Assuming that quiz got a good cross section of the American demographic, that would indicate that there are more than 30 million people who don't know where America is on the map.

30,000,000 people living in ignorant bliss... with obesity rates as high as they are now, a good portion of those 30 million people won't have to live in ignorant bliss for too long.
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Is this the survey you participated in? 2002 National Geographic Geo Survey. It states 11% of Americans couldn't find USA on the map.
 
obeygiant said:
HA, you would believe it.
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Of course I do. Look at where I live. This place is filled with pretty but stupid people who couldn't find the USA on a map if it said "You Are Here". :eek: Most of my clients are like that (I do computer repair for industry people). I even had a girlfriend who once asked me where the any key was. :eek:

I can find it on a map though, if that's what you were getting at, I used to get A's in Geography. ;)
 
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I love the great people of the interwebs for their creativity and such and such as.
 
edesignuk said:
I love the great people of the interwebs for their creativity and such and such as.
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