20% of Americans can’t find the US on a world map
20% of Americans can’t find the US on a world map and Miss South Carolina knows why.
“uh…the Iraq…”
Here’s what she should have said,
A fifth of Americans can’t find the US on a map because they are just like me: superficial, shallow, sheltered, religious, uninterested, uninteresting, and dumb. Our education system in shambles. We waste money on religious programs, unending wars, farm subsidy, and a bullshit war on drugs, while we watch our kids fall behind the rest of the world, in everything but waist size, never to catch up. It’s TV shows like this one contributing to the problem, and the fact that a single little girl in this great nation might someday call me “role model” scares the living shit out of me. Look at my tits! Thank you.”
[via Gadling and everyone else. I’m a little late to the party on this one.]
There’s a not-bad spoof here: vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=16914127
Dont worry, there are retards like her all over the world
oh, and is that Slater from saved by the bell?!
Start putting geography trivia on the side of Happy Meals and Big Gulps.
Problem solved.
can you believe it? you almost can’t.
shes soo dumb… I think my pet dog was cleverer than her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Khx0D9Vxg
Um, like, oh my God, like Americans, like don’t even, like have maps. Like all of our maps, are like in, South Africa. Which is like, right below Rhode Island. They have like, the most awesome bars too. I like totally get wasted there…
I tell you this, I will guarantee you that she gives ridiculous head. Don’t have much of one, but I bet ya she’s a champ.
I actually cringed a little while she spoke.
How did the presenter keep a straight face while listening to all that??? And why do Asian countries and South Africa need USA to help them??? I bet she can’t find US on a map… sheesh…
This is the perfect example of everything that is wrong with America.
Most people I’ve shown this too laugh.
I damn near broke into tears.
Really sad.
One day we’ll be able to again laugh at a dumb blonde without it having to be an indictment of our whole country.
I actually feel really bad for her. I’m sure she was already really nervous being on television, but the question defied intuition and common sense. In fact, according to National Geographic, 94% of young Americans can find the U.S. on a map. If they asked me that question, I would have been like “WTF?” and I’m sure she felt that way too. Although her answer made me cringe, I think it was unfair to make her explain false data.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/roper2006/pdf/FINALReport2006GeogLitsurvey.pdf