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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 01:39 PM
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Australian media interviews Americans - see what's wrong with our country.
This is unbelievable. How did so many people get so stupid.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2587661313510275113
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 01:42 PM
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1. Geography ain't their strong suit, is it?
HOW EMBARRASING!
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sasha031 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 01:50 PM
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2. that will be played all over Aussie Tv
I am embarrassed for this country,

couldn't he find anyone to say hopefully we won't invade anyone:eyes:
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mrdmk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 02:10 PM
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3. This has to be a joke, people pointing to Australia thinking it is the
Middle East
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 02:26 PM
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6. The joke is on the interviewees.
The map had Australia marks as Korea, or Iran, or France - you can see that in a couple of the pictures, and the people read the words instead of reading the map.

Funnee!!!
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Raydawg1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 02:14 PM
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4. clearly a spoof.
it was set up, notice how everybody "accidentally" put the flags on Australia.
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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 02:38 PM
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7. Sadly not.
See post #6
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Raydawg1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 02:40 PM
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9. how can people be that dumb?
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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 03:08 PM
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13. LOL maybe the guy that said he doesn't give a shit if they turn
the entire ME to "glass" can explain it.
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sojourner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 02:50 PM
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11. Australia seemed to be deliberately mislabed: Iran, France, N. Korea, etc.
A good way to test whether these folks knew anything about the world's geography. And Americans DON'T. Many studies have shown this to be a fact.
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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 02:22 PM
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5. Wow!! The level of Ignorance is beyond astounding!
They seem semi-retarded
I mean they can communicate and convey their thoughts but what they say has no logic or
reasoning in it.
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liam_laddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 03:14 PM
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14. Under-educated or worse?
Jay Leno often does a feature asking people in the street about
a variety of topics. I'm appalled at the very low level of knowledge
or even informed opinion exhibited. Of course, I don't know what
was edited out; maybe they do the dumbest clips for laughs.
Nevertheless, the message is not encouraging. And they're not
all Californians, lots of tourists included.
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Comadreja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 02:40 PM
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8. They only filmed the dummies
edited out those who caught on, I'll wager.
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Raydawg1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 02:41 PM
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10. yah, we forget the power of video editing to alter "reality"
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sojourner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 02:50 PM
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12. of course. doesn't change that there exist such dummies does it?
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Nutmegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 03:20 PM
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15. Wow - that was pretty sad
BOMB 'EM ALL!!!







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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 03:23 PM
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16. I fully believe it
After one of my students kept referring to Japan as "down there," I realized that the first order of business on the first day of my Japanese 101 classes was to pull down the world map and show the students where Japan is.

Before I took a group of students on a study tour of Japan, I gave them a blank map to fill in as a homework assignment. There were comments like, "I didn't realize Russia reached all the way over there" or "I thought Taiwan was closer to Vietnam." (That's "Thailand," dear.)
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Nutmegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 03:27 PM
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17. That's even sadder
Edited on Sat Mar-11-06 03:27 PM by Nutmegger
In my history class, a student wanted to cheat off of me on a little map quiz because they didn't know where China, Russia and "Korea" were located.


And I'm suppose to be in college.


Is this the dumbing down of America?:boring:
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 08:55 PM
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18. I was taking an FAA class with people from all over the country.
We had to fill in the blanks on a map of the USA. The two guys from Colorado asked me which state was Washington DC.
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