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HalfMooner
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Question: Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the United States on a world map. Why do you think this is?
Miss Teen South Carolina: "I personally believe the U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh...people out there in our nation don't have maps, and, uh, I believe that our education like such as South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as and...I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., err, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our... |
There's also a video. Next, Miss Teen Texas gives an explanation of Americans' inability to coherently express simple concepts.
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Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
Edited by - HalfMooner on 08/26/2007 01:01:13
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 08/26/2007 : 03:52:29 [Permalink]
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Well, that was an interesting bit of gibberish. This chick could replace one of the door-strippers at Jerome's Welcome Back Party. If one of my daughters had spewed slop like that into a microphone, she'd have been grounded until Christ came back on a Segway.
It is a sad comment on the state of education in SC, and elsewhere, that so many students can't string together a coherent thought.
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recurve boy
Skeptic Friend
Australia
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Posted - 08/26/2007 : 04:28:34 [Permalink]
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| that was great |
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 08/26/2007 : 06:08:03 [Permalink]
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| Measuring by myself, when I was a teenager I couldn't have noises onstage that sounded that good, and I certainly never could have made it look that good. |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
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Robert Hunter
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 08/26/2007 : 07:04:39 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Gorgo
Measuring by myself, when I was a teenager I couldn't have noises onstage that sounded that good, and I certainly never could have made it look that good.
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Verbally, she had no poise at all, but you couldn't tell from her body language or her fixed smile. I recall in high school that I would blubber fairly unintelligibly in speech class. (But not quite that badly.) Until I took a drama class and was in a play. Then the stage fright evaporated. I, too, was blond, when my hair had color, and my head had hair.
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 08/26/2007 : 07:23:59 [Permalink]
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| I'm too stunned by the poll results - a fifth of Americans can't locate the USA on a map!!?? - to be stunned by her gibbering. |
"Too much certainty and clarity could lead to cruel intolerance" -Karen Armstrong
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JEROME DA GNOME
BANNED
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 Posted - 08/26/2007 : 07:59:15 [Permalink]
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Nice anecdotal evidence of my long time assertion that the American public school system is a failure.
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What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. - Bertrand Russell |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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JEROME DA GNOME
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Posted - 08/26/2007 : 08:30:07 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ricky
| Nice anecdotal evidence of my long time assertion that the American public school system is a failure. |
Have you not learned a thing since you've been here?
This news report puts it at 11%, though there is no mention of the studies methods.
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Thanks for the article.
| About 11 percent of young citizens of the U.S. couldn't even locate the U.S. on a map. The Pacific Ocean's location was a mystery to 29 percent; Japan, to 58 percent; France, to 65 percent; and the United Kingdom, to 69 percent. |
Here is the PDF documnet
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What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. - Bertrand Russell |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 08/26/2007 : 08:32:36 [Permalink]
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| I suppose the pressure is now on for her to do better in the swimsuit competition. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 08/26/2007 : 08:38:22 [Permalink]
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Verbally, she had no poise at all, but you couldn't tell from her body language or her fixed smile. I recall in high school that I would blubber fairly unintelligibly in speech class. (But not quite that badly.) Until I took a drama class and was in a play. Then the stage fright evaporated. I, too, was blond, when my hair had color, and my head had hair.
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Yes, she will some day be the governor of South Carolina. |
I know the rent is in arrears
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Robert Hunter
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 08/26/2007 : 11:14:24 [Permalink]
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Duh!
However, based on the acceptance of bad vocabulary and mindless thinking processes of the present President, and the broken electoral process, the Republicans might some day get the Supreme Court to appoint her as a phony President too.
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Diversity, independence, innovation and imagination are progressive concepts ultimately alien to the conservative mind.
"TAX AND SPEND" IS GOOD! (TAX: Wealthy corporations who won't go poor even after taxes. SPEND: On public works programs, education, the environment, improvements.) |
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recurve boy
Skeptic Friend
Australia
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Posted - 08/26/2007 : 16:30:50 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by Gorgo
Measuring by myself, when I was a teenager I couldn't have noises onstage that sounded that good, and I certainly never could have made it look that good.
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Verbally, she had no poise at all, but you couldn't tell from her body language or her fixed smile. I recall in high school that I would blubber fairly unintelligibly in speech class. (But not quite that badly.) Until I took a drama class and was in a play. Then the stage fright evaporated. I, too, was blond, when my hair had color, and my head had hair.
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I'm bad at public speaking too. And still am. But that made no sense what so ever. I can't even tell what she was getting at. I think most people could at least get a basic idea across? |
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 09/01/2007 : 20:00:19 [Permalink]
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Thank goodness she got a chance to redeem herself on the Today show.
"Everything did come at me at once. I was overwhelmed and I made a mistake. Everybody makes a mistake. I'm human," she said Tuesday. "And besides Mario Lopez is so dreamy that I seriously think I only heard about one or two words of the actual question."
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Or something like that. |
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Miss Teen South Carolina explains US geo ignorance
