Showing posts with label geography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geography. Show all posts

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Dumb Americans

This is that news segment from Australian television about dumb Americans that I showed at our May 8th orientation meeting. Very funny, maybe exaggerated, but there are a lot of statistics that show it's not all that inaccurate.





And here are some real interesting links on the subject:

Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?
NY Times review of a recent book on the subject.
GeoTube Videos
The YouTube of geography videos.
Geographically Dumb Americans
A survey conducted by National Geographic magazine

Are You a Dumb American?
Take the quiz yourself!