I am 77 years old. Yet I knew you could drive to Alaska in grade school.
That’s the problem. They quit teaching geography years ago in favor of some diluted pap called “social studies.” The ability to read a map and be familiar with the location and terrain of key nations is a powerful tool in understanding ongoing geopolitical activities.
I can’t believe somebody calling herself a woman with a “boyfriend” actually thought Alaska was an island. Must be a Karen.
Stupid is as stupid does...
If it’s Tic Toc, it’s a stunt.
Growing up, the maps put it on the bottom left, as they did Hawaii.
I can understand why someone might assume both are islands.
Have you ever looked at a map?
I’m a native Houstonian, when I lived in San Diego in the 70s people would sometimes say, “You’ll understand once you’ve lived in the big city for a while”, what was really crazy was hearing that when I lived in Minneapolis in the late 1980s.
I met a Welsh girl when she was on vacation in California, we got engaged and I was driving us to Houston and in Arizona I told her to roll up the windows because sometimes Indians attack, which scared her, and you should have seen her surprise when she found out we didn’t tie up our horses to the hitching post in our Texas cities.
I think that some US Americans don’t have maps and such.
Public schools teach gender and grievance studies offer pornographic books in their limited libraries and live in fear someone will call them racists.
“I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, um, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq and everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future.”
Yes, people are this stupid.
My son’s 3rd grade teacher in Florida, when told we were moving to New Mexico asked...
“Will you need to get a passport?”
She is not the only one with misconceptions about New Mexico. It is so bad that even the license plate of New Mexico is unique as it is the only one that says “USA” after the state name, just to make it clear we ARE part of the United States of America.
Well, then you’re an idiot.
If you can figure out how to use a condom in the dark and tie your own shoes in the light, you qualify for a High School diploma.
One of my favorite SNL skits, with Steve Martin
Common Knowledge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0HGEZXTy8Y
Texas-Alaska--Ray Jackson (1958)
Gee! I’ve known Alaska isn’t an island since early grammar school.
Bookmark.
This is sad beyond belief.
If she ever looked closely at the outline of Alaska, she would see the eastern side is a fairly straight line. How many islands have straight borders?
And they dwell among us and even worse, they vote! Not stupid? Really?