and they let him in the UK?

[imi]

And these guys get to vote...

[jamesmark]

To be fair they let anyone in the UK now.

[MrAngry]

It isn't just confined to Americans. There is an ever growing number of British kids / Young people that are equally as ignorant. I have the unfortunate pleasure of working with two people in their early twenties who regularly make similar statements, and have no idea of geography.

[CJ]

You want cultural ignorance and abject stupidity? Come and live out here in Greece and deal with the average British tourist on a regular basis and you will get all that and much worse!

[R Black]

It isn't just confined to Americans. There is an ever growing number of British kids / Young people that are equally as ignorant. I have the unfortunate pleasure of working with two people in their early twenties who regularly make similar statements, and have no idea of geography.

 

Thats down to studying apathy/ignorance/stupidity though not education IMO

[MrAngry]

Thats down to studying apathy/ignorance/stupidity though not education IMO

 

Certainly to an extent some proportion of it is. However, these two in question are not the usual apathetic types that you would expect them to be. They are supposedly "educated" people in reasonably well paid jobs. When I have challenged them they have admitted that they weren't taught the simplest of things such as capital cities when at school.

 

I was married to an American and my ex Brother in Law is a teacher at a school in North Carolina, which isn't the most advanced of states. But from speaking to him, the kids there do get the same sort of grounding in education that the kids here get. So a large proportion of their ignorance comes from the same reason as you give above.