I find that kind of ironic somehow you know. How much to Americans actually pay attention to the news instead of be engolfed in it's sensationalism. I found when I moved to the US 9 months ago that the average American I dealt with was ignorant of the outside world while still having strong opinions about it. That's just the way it was and I thought it was interesting but certainly not condemming. I find American patriotizm to be compelling and charming.
The old saying that "war teaches geography" seems to be no longer a truth I guess. People complain openly about Iraq all the time and so many don't know where it is on a map? Or Isreal? I find that to be interesting. Not being able to find Louisiana... that's pretty interesting to me considering how huge that was last year.
As for like languages... it's a general knowledge stat but if someone asked me I would certainly have said Chinese no1 and from there I would have been guessing, and probably put English number 5 or 6 as native languages.
I can understand not knowing North vs South Korea is the most fortified boarder, but saying US Mexico was instead seems like wild guessing. People guess in these surveys a lot I suppose.
Maybe people should be playing trival persuit more
