[kj] OT:

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

As an American, yeah, that's pretty disturbing. Obviously they probably 
edited out folks who got the answers right -- I mean, *someone* had to 
have, right? -- and did some other editing gimmicks. But still, for the 
folks who got the questions wrong -- no excuse. Honestly, when I thought 
of a country that starts with a "U," nerd that I am, I thought of 
Uruguay and Uzbekhistan. I think a lot of Americans think of "United 
States of America" as just plain "America" and "United Kingdom" as 
"England," for better worse. And probably none of the people remember 
that two continents are actually the Americas, named after an Italian, 
Amerigo Vespucci. But most Americans don't really care, aren't 
interested in, the rest of the world, because they know their country is 
better than all of it anyway.

In school they tried to teach us geography. As a youngster, though, I 
was interested in World War 2 quite a bit, studied all the maps and 
books, played Risk and other war-oriented boardgames or computer 
simulations a lot, and that more than anything taught me geography 
pretty early on. Why, thanks to Risk I can still point out where regions 
like Siam and The Congo are.

-Oliver


Tinsoldier645527 at aol.com wrote:

> Do they not teach geography in the USA?Everytime they had to put a 

> flag on that map,they were putting it in Australia!!!France,North 

> Korea AND Iran were put there.It scares me to think the USA is the 

> biggest superpower with a public like that

>  

> In a message dated 07/07/2007 19:55:57 GMT Daylight Time, 

> folkdevil_23 at hotmail.com writes:

>

>     Welcome, to the arse end of dumbing down...HELP!!!

>

>

>     >From: "Brendan Quinn" <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>

>     >Reply-To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the

>     >band!)"<gathering at misera.net>

>     >To: "'A list about all things Killing Joke (the

>     >band!)'"<gathering at misera.net>

>     >Subject: Re: [kj] OT:

>     >Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 13:57:33 +1200

>     >

>     >I thought Utopia was quite a clever answer too. Capital city:

>     übermenschia.

>     >

>     >

>     >

>     >   _____

>     >

>     >From: gathering-bounces at misera.net

>     [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On

>     >Behalf Of fluw

>     >Sent: Saturday, 7 July 2007 1:28 a.m.

>     >To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

>     >Subject: Re: [kj] OT:

>     >

>     >

>     >

>     >the answer "a wing of the masonic order" by the guy in front of

>     the white

>     >house when questioned "what is al-qaida" was stupid genius!

>     >

>     >

>     >uncle benny's magical bra & liquorice factory wrote:

>     >

>     >I’d like to think this is cross section of a minority but oh dear

>     lord...

>     >

>     >http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE

>     >

>

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