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Originally Posted by maleficent
but isn't know that Georgia has more square footage than Florida has, just trivia? Does that knowledge actually serve a useful purpose?
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To answer both you and Jimellow... I agree that some of geography has to do with sheer trivia, including your example.
However, my concern is with not knowing the places where MAJOR events have gone down, events that affect us and our economy, our livelihood, on a daily basis; events that have, in effect, dictated history. Events and places that just about everyone else in the world with any kind of education knows about (as Apmle said), far more than we do. I wonder how our international reputation would change if more Americans actually knew where and what was going on in the world, to the point where it actually broke through the little cocoons we build around ourselves and made us care about other countries and their people.
ISRAEL. IRAQ. LOUISIANA. Those stand out to me from that survey. As Americans, how could anyone NOT know where those places are? It is just beyond my comprehension.