other countries aren't any better when it comes to this.
most people are flat out morons, don't read a newspaper. don't watch a news channel - people think CNN is a pervasive presence in most American's lives - check out its ratings, they are tiny, tractor pulls and rasslin' have higher ratings than CNN.
blame parents more than schools - when i was a kid, i saw my parents starting out the day reading the newspaper and making comments about the world so i just followed suit. I know most of my other friends didn't have this going on in their house and they never seemed to know about anything except sports, TV and music. Believe me, those kids were taught basic geography in public school, they just ignored it. MTV video game generation is completely out to lunch on the world beyond their own small ones.
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