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Originally Posted by willravel
People learn what they think is important or what's interesting/cool. For a lot of people things like history, maths, science and geography aren't on the list. And let's be honest: who needs to know where the US is on a map? A majority of US citizens never even leave the country.
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I think it's more that it's being used as indicative of the state of our educational system. Not so much that being able to find the U.S. on a map is important, but more along the lines of: if they can't even manage this simple task, imagine what other tasks they will be incapable of accomplishing.
Though I'm fairly certain that the original post was also intended to include the woman's fumbling of the answer, I'm going to agree with ubertuber on this. She was interviewed after the fact. She stated she didn't hear the question clearly, and she was a little caught off guard. We all fumble our words at times, it's just that her fumble was filmed then uploaded for all of us to mock.