18-07-2003 12:22									#1
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quote: Three U.S. teenagers won the gold medal Wednesday in the National Geographic World Championship, beating teams from Germany and France to successfully defend the U.S. title in a contest held every two years.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/0...e.ap/index.html

And Eurocoms always complain about USAers not knowing the world outside our own borders.


Das ist nicht sehr gut Deutschland.

	18-07-2003 12:24									#2
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:waits for the sun to rise in the West:

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Bwarrr! USA! USA!!!

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Man, if I ever had doubts who is the superpower on Earth, now I know

	18-07-2003 12:27									#6
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	18-07-2003 12:44									#8
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This thread reminds me of Sava's "W eats a cake, that means he's a MORON!" -threads.

I can't believe that waste your time watching these 'news', yet alone making a thread from them. OTOH, This is another clear prove that CNN sucks.

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A lot of this competition is luck. I lost at the middle school level to someone far less qualified. We had a round where they went around the room asking questions to about 40 people, eliminating on first wrong answer. On the test that was given to see who would qualify for the school-level competition, I'd gotten the highest in the school. Naturally, though I knew the answer to about 98% of those, on the second or third pass I got a question I didn't know the answer to. I had to sit through a final round between two contestants, where neither could answer any of the questions, thinking god... this is so obvious.

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quote: Originally posted by Tuomerehu This thread reminds me of Sava's "W eats a cake, that means he's a MORON!" -threads. I can't believe that waste your time watching these 'news', yet alone making a thread from them. OTOH, This is another clear prove that CNN sucks.

what is wrong with CNN? Is that too conservative for you?

	18-07-2003 12:59									#11
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true heros. god bless them.
the article doesn´t mention it, but they certainly even found Bielefeld on the map.

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quote: Originally posted by Dissident what is wrong with CNN? Is that too conservative for you?

In addition to it's generally poor coverage, yes. CNN is too conservative.

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Cnn is not conservative.

Fox news is conservative.

I find CNN to be fairly balanced. Though I do agree their coverage has been declining in quality the past 5 years or so.

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CNN is really conservative from a European viewpoint.

@ the geography team thing. Clear proof that the US is the greatest country in the world.

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3 US teens being able to read a map?

USA!

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Now lets look at why they won

Where on the map is: Wisconsin? Alabama? New York? Texas? Idaho? North Dakota? Utah? Wyoming? Los Alamos? Pittsburgh? Atlanta? New Orleans? Delaware?

aaaand finally:
whats the capital of Tennesse?

After all thats the world, isnt it

	18-07-2003 14:47									#17
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To be fair:

quote: Wednesday's questions, created by a team of National Geographic writers and teachers, were heavily based on the geography of Africa, southeast Asia and Pacific island nations. The competition specifically excluded questions about the finalists' home countries.

On the other hand, I used to subscribe to the National Geographic magazine and recall that every year they did a survey of schoolkid's geographical knowledge. It seems that it's now done internationally, here's the story about the latest one:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...operSurvey.html

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quote: Originally posted by Peter Triggs http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...operSurvey.html

quote: Sweden scored highest; Mexico, lowest. The U.S. was next to last.

USA! USA!

I applaud these children however. Just more proof that if you actively seek out knowledge, you shall find it

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I guess its easier for most european people to travel abroad, since that is most of the time almost next to the door.

I admit I only traveled around in europe so far. So if the eurozone would become one big country, I would have not gone abroad too.

That said its kind of unfair to take into account how often someone has been "abroad".

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The thread title should say: three US teenagers beat the european counterparts in Geography...

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quote: Originally posted by Atahualpa I guess its easier for most european people to travel abroad, since that is most of the time almost next to the door. I admit I only traveled around in europe so far. So if the eurozone would become one big country, I would have not gone abroad too. That said its kind of unfair to take into account how often someone has been "abroad". ata

I disagree. Australia and NewZealand are in the middle of no where in world terms (up **** creek to be more precise) but we are everywhere. You can go anywhere in the world and their will be some aussie already there.

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Why are so many non-Americans using this article as a claim to America's status as a superpower? Why are they all so upset that anyone even mentioned it? Could it be that their many jokes about the American education are false? Have they lost their last bastion to overcome an inferiority complex? Will this lead to war?

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quote: Originally posted by Makeo I disagree. Australia and NewZealand are in the middle of no where in world terms (up **** creek to be more precise) but we are everywhere. You can go anywhere in the world and their will be some aussie already there.

Pulling pints usually

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quote: Originally posted by Makeo I disagree. Australia and NewZealand are in the middle of no where in world terms (up **** creek to be more precise) but we are everywhere. You can go anywhere in the world and their will be some aussie already there.

And if there is an Aussie already its not abroad anymore?
Would you say Australians touching anything will become part of Australia

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quote: Originally posted by Makeo I disagree. Australia and NewZealand are in the middle of no where in world terms (up **** creek to be more precise) but we are everywhere. You can go anywhere in the world and their will be some aussie already there.

That is because since they know they are in the middle of nowhere, they want to go to "where". Umm plus they are part of the sun-never-setting pink empire.

	19-07-2003 06:41									#26
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I think the reason Euros are beter at geography than americans is that the Euros travel between countries alot. Most working class americans never leave The US unless they live near the Canadian or Mexican borders. Also I think our schools concentrate to much on North American geography rather than world geography.

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quote: Originally posted by Makeo I disagree. Australia and NewZealand are in the middle of no where in world terms (up **** creek to be more precise) but we are everywhere. You can go anywhere in the world and their will be some aussie already there.

I pulled pints.

This is crap anyway. So what if the US team won. US citizens as a whole know less about the world than African tribesmen.

	19-07-2003 07:06									#28
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quote: Originally posted by Odin I think the reason Euros are beter at geography than americans is that the Euros travel between countries alot. Most working class americans never leave The US unless they live near the Canadian or Mexican borders. Also I think our schools concentrate to much on North American geography rather than world geography.

It's not traveling much....I've only been to a few countries, but I know more geography than the averege American. It's partly because I need to know and partly because I want to know. Most americans have neither of those. Therefore, they dont know.

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