"The average American doesn't know where Africa is


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Harvey Goldsmith claimed on BBC 1 programme 'News 24 Sunday' that "the average American doesn't know where Africa is" and went on to say - "we had this problem 20 years ago".

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Not much to discuss. The average American doesn't know where Iraq and Afghanistan are, and they've been fighting wars there for a while.

But your average American does know where his/her nearest Walmart is, and that's the most important thing, surely! ;)

PS Of course there are a lot of smart Americans out there too! :rofl:

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people don't know where ontario is , and it shares a border with like 8 states...I would beleive most people in the us wouldn't be able to point it out on a map of north america...saying most don't know where africa's a pretty good bet.

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find ontario..then nunavut and save your countries reputation.

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What's the point of this outside of bashing the US? I'd venture the say people in your country aren't geographical experts either.

and Yeah, I could pretty much find any country on the map, thank you very much. The live 8 promoter is ignorant.

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