37% of Americans cannot find USA on map : Gallup poll

[Mari333]

Washington, D.C. -- According to a Gallup/Harris poll released Monday, a full 37 percent of American citizens are incapable of identifying their home country on a map of the United States.

Of the 1,400 residents surveyed, the most common incorrect responses placed the more than 230-year-old territory in the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans (19 percent), the space where Mexico would appear were it in fact included on the map (10 percent), and inside the word "America" written just above the northernmost states (6 percent).








http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-shehori/poll-37-of-americans-unab_b_150933.html

[jaksavage]

1. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ixion]

2. wow

just wow. :wow:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Don't panic. It's satire.

[TahitiNut]

31. Tell her.

She looks like she's panicking.



:hide:

[KittyWampus]

4. Editor's note: This post is a satire.

[nc4bo]

24. I sometimes wonder, this satire is a bit too close to reality for comfort...

I took that New Yorker cover featuring afro-Michelle and turbin-Barack way too seriously too.

I'm hopeless.

[TahitiNut]

30. Where are the nymphs??

[nc4bo]

5. Satire? Ooooh yea, I remember what that is LOL.

I got had and didn't know until it was explained to me (or however that infamous DU saying goes).

:rofl:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. IT'S SATIRE!

[nc4bo]

20. Hello - while you were screaming

I was editing...Hello? Hello?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. Sorry...

Just got a little impatient because apparently nobody was bothering to actually read the article...

[nc4bo]

27. It's ok ocelot LOL - me and satire just can't get into each other like we used to

:fistbump: :pals:

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. OMG

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. And 37% of DU posters can't recognize satire, apparently.

[Dennis Donovan]

15. You're being generous...

:D:hi:

[BlueJazz]

17. Don't blame us very harshly....most of us are so used to idiocy, we expect it.

:)

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. IT'S SATIRE!

[Dennis Donovan]

26. No, unfortunately they voted in masse in 2004...

...and elected the unelectable George W Bush.

Cute name:

:eyes:

[Deep13]

9. Holy shit. On a map where the only choice is the lower 48...

...and more than a third of them still got it wrong!

When I first saw the OP subject, I assumed it was an unmarked map of the world. Wow, are we ever bone stupid!


P.S.
OOPS, it's a joke. I guess Americans have such a reputation for ignorance I naturally assumed it was true.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. IT'S SATIRE!

[mikelgb]

18. a valiant effort, but you may as well join them

ZOMG!!! 37%!11

[Deep13]

23. A lot of students really can't find America on a map of the world. nt

[Deep13]

19. I just figured that out and edited my post.

Wow. How bad is it when something like that seems credible to me?

[BlueJazz]

10. Isn't that 37 Percent about the same Number, percentage-wise, that ALWAYS votes Republican ??

:rofl:

[Dennis Donovan]

14. And you ALL laughed at Lil'Miss Teen South Carolina!

She NAILED it!:rofl:

She has my vote for Alaska Governor!:D

[NNN0LHI]

16. I would say an equal number couldn't find their asses with both hands

[WeDidIt]

21. I love your map

and I notied most Americans ignore the existance of teh African continent.

[gravity]

25. You mean the country

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

28. But, they can find McDonald's, KFC, and a tanning salon blindfolded.

[Laelth]

29. I blame television. It has dumbed us down ... a lot.

Of course, our educational system is producing results that are slightly better than the educational systems of most third world countries. The number of people we allow to live in poverty is also becoming similar to that of third world countries. As poverty increases, literacy and education decrease.

We've always been less educated than the people of Western Europe, but I had such high hopes for us.

:(

-Laelth