{"id":7299,"date":"2006-05-02T15:05:23","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T19:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7299"},"modified":"2006-05-02T15:05:23","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T19:05:23","slug":"dont-know-much-about-geography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/dont-know-much-about-geography\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t know much about geography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/nation\/3834446.html\">This<\/a> is just sad.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite the wall-to-wall coverage of the damage from Hurricane Katrina, nearly one-third of young Americans recently polled couldn&#8217;t locate [tag]Louisiana[\/tag] on a [tag]map[\/tag] and nearly half were unable to identify Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 fared even worse with foreign locations: six in 10 couldn&#8217;t find Iraq, according to a Roper [tag]poll[\/tag] conducted for National Geographic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[tag]Geographic illiteracy[\/tag] impacts our economic well-being, our relationships with other nations and the environment, and isolates us from the world,&#8221; National Geographic president John Fahey said in announcing a program to help remedy the problem. It&#8217;s hoping to enlist businesses, nonprofit groups and educators in a bid to improve geographic literacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not entirely convinced that [tag]young adults[\/tag]&#8217; ignorance has such a negative effect, but it&#8217;s terribly embarrassing. Louisiana is not only geographically distinct, it <i>has<\/i> been on TV quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the young adults weren&#8217;t much better identifying big foreign countries. Six in 10 could not find Iraq on a map of the Middle East, 75% were unable to locate Israel on a map of the Middle East, and half could not find the Indian subcontinent on a map of Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just sad. Despite the wall-to-wall coverage of the damage from Hurricane Katrina, nearly one-third of young Americans recently polled couldn&#8217;t locate [tag]Louisiana[\/tag] on a [tag]map[\/tag] and nearly half were unable to identify Mississippi. Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 fared even worse with foreign locations: six in 10 couldn&#8217;t find Iraq, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}