Yeah, Let’s Fight the Russians on the Miami Front
I think this is my favorite poll ever simply because it proves that the dumber you are, the more likely you want to go to war. It’s called “The Republican Redneck and Proud” theorem.
So researchers at Dartmouth, Princeton, and Harvard asked Americans to locate Ukraine on a world map. One in six got it right. But, here’s the catchy part. The further off they were to it’s location on a map, the more likely they were to want to invade it.
Two people thought it was in Memphis. I can understand that. I’ve been that drunk in Memphis before. Iceland? Seriously?
… the further our respondents thought that Ukraine was from its actual location, the more they wanted the U.S. to intervene militarily. Even controlling for a series of demographic characteristics and participants’ general foreign policy attitudes, we found that the less accurate our participants were, the more they wanted the U.S. to use force …
That’s kinda the way it always is, ain’t it?
Thanks to Larry for the heads up.
It has become patriotic to be stooooopid. Murka!!
1I wonder if they would do better throwing darts at a map while blindfolded.
2Everybody knows it is in Canada near the NW Territories. Still is a teevee program on called Sgt. Preston(RCMP) of the Ukraine and his trusted puppy Ukraine King. Starred Richard Simmons,no not that one.
3e. p. onion nailed it!
4I’m surprised that nobody picked Georgia. Remember all those news stories about the Rooskies attacking Georgia?
5Seriously! There has to be something in the DNA! Who would willingly want to be stupid?
6But let’s cut more funding for schools.
7Laughing. Sigh. What I really don’t get is, why would anyone want to go anywhere where they don’t know anyone and get into a shoot out with them? I just don’t get it. I can understand getting so mad at a friend or relative that I want to shoot them which is why we don’t keep guns. But strangers?
8I’m pretty sure Palin can see Ukraine from her house.
Every time I read articles here I laugh out loud, shake my head and say OMG. But I’m really appalled at how stupid and mean Americans are. I keep hoping that we’ve seen the lowest of the low and the end is in sight for these kinds of people but no…it just keeps getting worse every day.
9Hey, no one identified Mexico for The Ukraine. Does that mean they don’t want to invade us folks who have fled the lunacy up north to live in a wonderful country?
10The results of this poll doesn’t surprise me since a huge numbers of Americans can’t identify the U.S. on a world map, yet, many of the same individuals love to claim that “America is an exceptional nation.” Imho, there’s nothing exceptional about ignorance, especially when it comes to wanting to invade a nation one can’t even locate on a map.
11I can remember a time when, given a globe or map of the world, I could fill in the name of each country. When I mentioned to a friend in the 1980s that I could no longer do it, he reminded me how many borders have moved, and how many names have been changed.
Still, I know exactly where Ukraine is. Maybe that’s because some of my grandparents and other relatives came from Belarus, which it borders.
Memphis? lol
12Zyx, someone in your family tree named Thoro?
13Well, no one knew where Vietnam was either……until it was too late.
14I read a study recently about how… I forget, let’s be kind and say a third, of Americans couldn’t find Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia on a map. And this was a map with the names PRINTED ON the countries. Maybe they were looking in Namibia or Argentina or Wisconsin.
15I had thought that more would have been aware since the Winter Olympics. sigh I guess most people don’t head for the globe to see where things are. Likely most people couldn’t remember ever seen one.
If I were still teaching, we’d have races to find countries on the map…
16Sigh. I love maps and find geography fascinating. Who would want to read about a place and not go look it up??
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