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Haha, I thought this graph was great. And for all the people getting pissed about the generalization and stereotype of it, I mean…come on…for those of you getting mad about it, watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q566ys0sqVQ. I mean, for sure it’s edited and whatnot, but seriously, lol, that’s got to take some serious obliviousness.
The best part is, I’m American and even I see this level of ignorance.
And yes, I made this graph.
I’d like to see other countries do this. I bet there are similar trends worldwide. Obliviousness about things unrelated to yourself is hardly an American trait.
North Korea is a prime example of an oblivious people, given they are brainwashed, but ask them to point out shit on a map…see what happens
Up here in Canada we’re generally more educated, or at least so we like to think, this may just be caused by my not affiliating with stupid people… whatever happened to natural selection anyways?
Down here in Holland we know pretty damn much, but nobody cares ^^ (Holland is that little country between Germany and Britain, and above Belgium (wich is above France) just for the people who don’t know (seeing this graph))..
I… didn’t actually know that. Any of what you just said.
GAH! Stupid American! Stupid! *hits self repeatedly*
For me, personally, the whole map would be red, except Japan, Russia, India, Australia, and Brazil would be orange (and of course everything in North America- I mean, seriously).
i am kinda mad at this graph becuase i know where all these places are on the map and it is kind of stereotypical about americans, but you should also make other maps about other kinds of people becides americans so so many people don’t get as mad at it.
I’m American, and I could label 90% of the countries of the world on a blank map, I’m sure (including obscure ones like Tajikistan or Lesotho). But I’m not mad, this is still true. Most Americans are terrible at geography, and knowing the world beyond their country’s borders. I could give you story after story of appalling ignorance (not even knowing which states bordered on the ones they lived in, for example), from all across the US. But suffice it to say, there is tons of truth to this chart. And all the other countries I’ve been to have been worlds better than us, no pun intended.
One could quibble on details, but the basic point is very valid. Now should someone make a graph of American spelling?
This needs to be fixed! Haha.
I bet you all Americans could tell you/me where Australia is!
Its like the easiest country to pick out.
Hahaha.
Peace.
reminds me of…
http://www.speedygrl.com/america_big.gif
reminds me of: http://failblog.org/2008/08/19/geography-fail/#comments
reminds mew of failblog.org/2008/08/19/geography-fail/#comments
I’m starting to think this site is just a vent for annoyed office workers…Rarely do I see a graph that’s just “funny”…
offensive
and not true
Offensive
And pretty much true
Can the truth BE offensive?
Yep. We Americans don’t like to admit our stupidity, even if we know it’s true. There’s always that person saying “NO! I’m not stupid!!! I am so smart!!” When deep down they are thinking “What the hell is a ‘Sudan’? And where are my 80,000 big macs?” They’ll still be offended at your stereotypes, if they understand them, that is. Now, I’m an American, I happen to *love* my country, and although stereotypes are more often than not exaggerated, they are true. We eat a bunch of junk food (I do), we aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed (I’m certainly not), and we are lazy as hell (I am)… But if you called me a fat, stupid, lazy American… I’d most likely be remotely offended.
Sudan’s a type of minivan, right?
I’m an american and i like to stick my finger really deep in my nose and
then poke my dog with it. Sparky knows i love him!
LOL (For real, not just saying it)!
Besides, if your offended, just take that as being another typical American trait.
I agree.
Hey, fat, lazy and stupid, just because it’s true for YOU doesn’t mean it’s true for EVERYONE.
Every country has it’s morons. Every country has it’s fatsos (in fact, I believe there are NINE nations fatter than the U.S.A.). Every country has it’s lazy people.
I mean, some of us paid attention in geography instead of stuffing our fat maws with Twinkies and napping.
I bet you’re one of those retards who think everyone who comes to the States oughta learn English, but if you went overseas you’d expect everyone to know English and wouldn’t even try to use the language of the country you’re in.
Aparently ONLY Austrailia is fatter than you, fatty.
And how do you stuff your fat maw with napping?
Paid attention in geography but not in English when they were telling you when to use “its” and when to use “it’s” it would appear
i think you need to look up anger management in the phone book
Whoa there stallion, what’s up your butt? If you’re gonna look at a stereotype as universally true for all members of that particular group, well that’s just stupid, and no stereotype would be true. A stereotype is considered true of the majority of the people in that group behave in that manner. I never said all Americans were fat, lazy, stupid or whatever. Some of them are highly intelligent, hard working, and in great shape. Good for them! But the stupid fatties are outnumbering them. I also never said that no other country was filled with stupid fat people either. They most certainly are. I know an English woman who is just… God, she’s such an idiot. And there are Americans who would knock your socks off with all their knowledge. You make so many stupid assumptions and are far too butthurt from a joke. If you’d like to know I was being facetious in my last post. Mhm.
You’re just angry because you don’t have anyone around you to talk to, right? They’re all fat, stupid, lazy and stuffing their maw with twinkies?
You should look up the difference between it’s and its, by the way. That’ll help your “I’m a smarty-pants” rant some.
You should maybe care about your spelling… My mothertongue is French and even I can see your grammar mistakes… (Hope I didn’t use too much complicated words) :p
Yes! Thank you. I’m a 4.0 student and I try my best to keep informed and intelligent, but here’s how it works (at least in my district): Since some kids are STUPID and/or Mommy and Daddy didn’t care enough to make sure they were in school regularly before, the standards are lowered and lowered so that they actually learn the required information. This means that semi-intelligent humans like me and many people I know are dragged down with them. For example, I have learned the entire history of the U.S. twice, in 5th grade and 8th, and next year, I will be taking ANOTHER U.S. History class because it’s required. At the same time, I have learned next to nothing about how the government functions today, trends in the economy, OTHER COUNTRIES, etc. And several of the classes I am taking right now BARELY touch the surface of the interesting and important topics we’re covering because half the dumb-asses in my class can barely keep up with the simplest stuff. Yet, the teachers assign so much busywork and pointless projects that it’s ridiculous. So my only option is to bust my ass for the select classes that are offered “Advanced” (which usually just means hours more work and stress). I don’t know, but isn’t that a school system that’s just set up for ignorance?
Well, most of us can’t read maps, because we don’t have maps! And like, such as, etc.
It’s true.
I hope you are kidding.
I’m pretty sure it’s a joke referring to Miss South Carolina. I haven’t any sound on my computer anymore, but I’m pretty sure this is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
Sad…
I care about Canada– I’ve driven through it three times! Their MacDonald’s has this cute little maple leaf right in the middle of the ‘m’
lol and *thats* what we’re known best for
Nope, just true
Why is the average American supposed to care about the Sudan?
Stupid map.
becuz it’s in the newz.
Oh, so *that’s* where Sudan is. Thanks!
WIN.
what’s it in the news 4?
Ever heard of the darfur crisis?
No. You?
Yeah. And I care about it. Care about in the sense of me laughing at them when I hear about it. So I guess I should thank them for a chuckle or two.
I don’t follow pokemon
Darfur. Of course, they don’t know that Darfur is IN Sudan, but they know that something really bad is happening in an area somewhere called Darfur.
Fail. China isn’t marked on here. Americans care about it because they know tainted crap comes from there.
and the Olympics!
Not to mention that Russia isn’t marked as well.
and also … sinse when did americans care about certain western-european countries
Sweden has blondes with big tits. Need I say more?
Oh right! I was wondering why Sweden was on the map! :p
And during the several-month-long stretches between recalls, Americans just ignore it.
And news flash–most of our factory-produced goods nowadays, tainted or not, come from China! They have for years!
“all others” should be “countries Americans don’t care about AND can’t locate on a map”……
Yes.
A short, convenient way to express this would be ‘All Others’. Maybe they should use that instead?
Oh wait…
oh gosh. thanks for being a jackass.
Yes, but I felt I would be belaboring the point a bit if I put that on there, and make the legend a wee bit too long-winded. The idea that Americans don’t care about and cannot locate these countries is implied by the other titles.
Glad you like my graph!
Two examples of this:
1) My mom told a friend who was moving to Jamaica that she would make sure and drive down one summer to see her.
2) I was talking to a group of friends and someone mentioned the Eiffel Tower. Another friend said “I’ve never really been big on England.” We told her it was in Paris and she said, “Well, duh, I knew that…Paris, England.” The scary thing is, she was dead serious.
Is your mom in the northeast? She might have thought she meant Jamaica, Queens, New York City. A lot of people refer to that area of NY.
Paris, England: that’s really funny!
Is that anywhere near Massachusetts? That’s “New England” so where’s plain “England”?
when the olympics were in atlanta, one of the ticket operators told a caller from new mexico that he would have to order his tickets from the country where he lives, she could only sell tickets to US residents.
but that was when it was under spannish occupation
Oh – I lived in New Mexico and this happened to me about 25% of the time I tried to make travel arrangements. No lie. In fact it happens so often that New Mexico magazine has a section called “One of our 50 is missing”. It was interesting.
And I TOTALLY believe this graph. Americans are interesting in their interests and biases. I should know – I’m one of ‘em.
it’s where York is
No…she’s from the south…which could be why she didn’t have a good grasp of where in the world places are.
maybe i should create a graph based around % of self important douchbags that like to lump entire populations into stereotypical categories. don’t worry, i have plenty of problems with the state of affairs in my country however, not everyone is as ignorant as you portray them to be.
normally i’m all for laughing at one’s self, so i couldn’t say why, but this graph got under my skin too.
probably because it’s too close to the truth
cliche award?
Dude, I’m American. I made this graph because, while there are a lot of intelligent people in my country who care about world events, there are still millions of idiots who’ve never left their hometown and fail to understand that Africa is not a single country.
I know WE Americans aren’t all that dumb. I never said WE were. Just some of us.
Why in the HELL would you lump all of us together like that? These ignorant douchebags have probably never even been to america before, so how can you judge it without sounding like a ****ing idiot?
ive never been to england, but my brother and dad say it was cool. ive also never been to australia and im not going to make any judgements about you either. but when your gonna insult my nationality, it kind of pisses me off and im sure you could understand that unless your retarded (actually, id be willing to believe that, hah.)
all i know is that a chat with some average 15-25 year old people on Habbo UK produced this developmentally-challenged converstation:
Me: haha look at that idiot in the north west corner of the screen xDxD
girl: uh which way
me: … the north west corner
girl: im not that good at directions.. like north and east and stuff
me: oh well then thats the top right corner.
girl: umm…
and that conversation with that english retard pretty much left me cracking up for 10 minutes xD
You called her a retard; and yet you told her that the north west corner was the top right corner, instead of the top left corner? Hmm.
You shouldn’t be using compass directions in a 2D virtual world anyway. Only for maps and directions. Then again, in the US, 1/5th of the people can’t find the US on the map because they don’t have maps and education in south africa and such as…
Your attack on someone calling them an idiot would be a lot more effective if you could spell “you’re” correctly.
Wow, way to get your panties in a twist over a joke.
this is a country whach was founded because
a) they didn’t want to pay taxes (which they do anyway)
b) they wanted to invade more native lands
c) they didn’t like the cost of tea
d) four men in the back room of a pub thought it was a good idea
Sounds like a good a reason as any…. now if we could just do something about the cost of video games….
a./ They didn’t want to pay taxes that THEY HAD NO SAY IN. We’ll bitch about the taxes we have to pay, sure, with the full realisation that we put these people in charge so it’s pretty much our fault about the taxes. Back when we were a colony, though, good ol’ Britain could tax us twenty ways to Tuesday and we had no say.
I made the graph. I am an American. I know that there are intelligent Americans out there.
I also have encountered hundreds of my fellow-citizens who are mind-numbingly STUPID.
It’s meant to be a joke. I’m sorry I offended you. I simply wished to point out that too few people in our country concern themselves with foreign affairs.
I like your graph – some people just have panty twisting problems
great map. finally, a creative, original entry. but… why sweden? why do we care about sweden? Abba, I guess.
Uhm… IKEA?
also Finns are hot
Sweden =/= Finland
On the other hand we did see an awful lot of Swedish Bikini Team and IKEA in the late-80’s/early-90’s. Ericsson is another huge reason to care (they lead the world in innovative cellular/wireless innovation).
Finland we (sort of) care about due to Nokia.. and that’s about it.. unless you’ve got Finnish ancestors.
Awsome. Im Finnish
Yay meee!!
The Swedish Bikini Team of course!
Or you may have heard about any of the following:
Ingemar Bergman? Ace of Base? Ingrid Bergman (not related to Ingemar!)? Greta Garbo? Raul Wallenberg? Alfred Nobel? Vendela Kirsebom? Victoria Silverstedt? Carolus Linnaeus? Annika Sörenstam? Zlatan Ibrahimovic? Markus Näslund and many other great hockey players in NHL?
Saab? Volvo? The adjustable wrench? Ball bearings? Dynamite? The zipper? Lighthouses? Color monitors? The Celsius scale? (Hands up anyone who can explain how the Fahrenheit scale works!
Or maybe you are thinking about the Swedish alps, Swedish watches, Swedish cheese, Swedish banks, or Swedish army knives?
Saab is now GM owned, so the caring goes straight out the window there…
the alps don’t go as far north as sweden … do they? hang on i’ll check *bumping and shuffling noises as i look for an atlas*
let’s see europe… page 44-69 *turns pages*
nope the alps don’t even reach poland
i guess da last mentionings all were jokes… because they are swiss.
The Alps are in central europe (France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria). Not Sweden you nutcase.
i think he’s confused with switzerland, the great big hole in the EU.
You got it, Dolt!
Last time I lived in the US, everyone were so amazed about the cheese, watches etc. which, of course, are all confused with Switzerland. Sorry if my little joke was misinterpreted.
And speaking of Saab, Volvo Cars is now owned by Ford…
So, to clarify things, the alps are (among other places) in Switzerland, where they are famous for their watches (e.g. Swatch), Swiss cheese, the secret and tax free number bank accounts in Swiss banks, and the Swiss army knife. The rest in my list are truly Swedish though. (Save parts of Saab and Volvo…
Cause that’s where Swedish Fish come from ^_^
And Swedish meatballs!
It’s all in the food.
As much as I know what Sweden does have, I’m still a little surprised we got colored… I think it’s more because he wanted one of the “known, but small” European countries colored, and Sweden lucked out
Of course Sovi…err, Russia and probably Israel are more known to Americans than Sweden
Wow, THAT was made my liberal. And one who worships Michael Moore, probably, too.
your liberal?
ha
Actually, I think Michael Moore’s a sensationalist jackass.
But I do think a lot of my fellow Americans need to learn how to think again.
uhhh everybody knows that every single american in america is infact retarded.
FACT
and also the average american IQ is below 75
FACT
It’s also widespread knowledge that you have no history of your own besides the death and destruction of smaller/weaker/defenseless cultures.
FACT (srsly)
evidence in support of this graph/ the general ignorance of americans:
FACT: You sir, and are Idiot
FACT: That was pathetic.
FACT
the world still exists because America allows it to exist
FACT
America can invade any country America wants and not meet any resistance from any country exept the one being invaded because
FACT
England is our bitch, France owes us BIG TIME, we’ve already beaten Germany twice, Russia understands that we would just destroy each other so they wouldn’t start anything, China gets too much money from us, Israel is us, Canada is just America that was too afraid to rebel against England, and more and more South Americans go to America each day so all of them wouldn’t start shit with us
And what does america have to offer that’s so good we should all praise and worship you..? Poor immigrants who can’t get jobs, lazy americans that don’t want to work, but don’t want to give jobs to foreign people, FAT people, non-culture and crazy right-wing christian beliefs which will soon have you burning people at the stake… again.
The world lets america do whatever it likes because of one simple thing: america is so dumb, you never know what it’s thinking.. but it has a gun.
Ok, let’s take a look at this,
“England is our bitch, France owes us BIG TIME, we’ve already beaten Germany twice, Russia understands that we would just destroy each other so they wouldn’t start anything, China gets too much money from us, Israel is us, Canada is just America that was too afraid to rebel against England, and more and more South Americans go to America each day so all of them wouldn’t start shit with us”
“China gets too much money from us”…… you realize that China actually has a surplus of money right? and they’ve loaned quite a bit to America.
“More and more south americans go to America each day”…… which South American country are you speaking of? I’m guessing you’re referring to Mexico, which is actually part of north america, not to mention the fact that south america isn’t a country, it’s a continent.
I was going to take apart your post point by point, but honestly, there’s no point, they’re not even remotely based in any sort of reality, so it’s just a worthless cause.
You know all those allies of ours, or, our bitches as you put it, if we attacked one of them, we would have no more allies, it would be us against the world, and we would lose, pathetically. but whatever, enjoy your moonshine, and get back to your sister, she’s needin ya.
FACT, Iraq and Afghanistan, however, seem to be fucking us the fuck up.
wasn’t that chuck norris?
wait… i think u got something wrong there… the world exists because chuck norris allows it 2 exist!
Stop to belive in ur grandma’s tales, what she told u once u was 6 years old.
Whoa there, shouldn’t you be doing your job at Dunder Mifflin?
FACT- It’s called Social Darwinism, deal with it pussy!
FACT:
FACT: Bears eat beets.
umm, why are people taking this so personally? really–the graph-maker knows that every American doesn’t feel this way. can’t anyone make fun of themselves these days?
I would like to take a moment to state that based on everything that takes place in my classes, most Americans CANNOT find the United States on a map. I make all my freshman history students take two tests (I had originally intened them to be easy A’s to help boost people that weren’t history majors, but now I’m that hard professor nobody wants to take). One is where they locate STATES on a map of the United States. Most fail and have to take the retest. Nevermind the other test where I have students find whole countries on a world map. I don’t ask people to find out of the way places like Rwanda or Botswana. It’s major places like the United States, Germany, India… Incidentally, between half and two thirds of my students fail to locate the United States every time on the first test, but 85% of my students can find Austrailia on the first try.
Your graph needs adjustment.
Saying the graph just needs adjustment is pretty high praise for something that started as a joke. They didn’t even start with an up to date map.
I know it’s not very accurate. I was going more for comic appeal than accuracy.
And I know how you feel. An all-A student in my brother’s senior class did not know that Washington, D.C. is not in the state of Washington. As a 12th grade student. Born and raised in America.
The truth hurts, huh, America?
While it may not apply to EVERYONE, I’d say it probably applies to the majority. Ask a sample of regular Americans to find, for example, India on a map of the world. Or Brazil. Two of the largest countries in the world. And I am willing to bet my left knacker that the majority of them won’t be able to find either of those countries. You know it is true. And there’s NO excuse for ignorance. Hell, most of you don’t even own a passport – that tells me all I need to know.
This is coming from a European who has travelled the world extensively in their lifetime including several trips to the US for extended periods of time.
What does owning a passport have to do with anything? If you’re not planning on traveling out of the country (which costs quite a bit now considering that a passport costs $100 now) what’s the point of getting one? Just because someone doesn’t own a passport or doesn’t have a crapload of money to spend traveling just to “see the sights” doesn’t mean their ignorant. What a ridiculous thing to add to a ridiculous argument.
Indeed. I may have traveled overseas, but a lot of people can’t afford it. Passports are expensive, fuel is expensive, and frankly, you can still learn a lot about other countries without actually going, thanks to the abundance of information available.
Remember, we Americans live in a very large country. Sure, some Texans and people in the northernmost states can just drive across the border, but most of us live hundreds of miles away from any other countries. It’s not like in Europe where most people can just drive for a few hours and be in another country.
Just because most Americans cannot afford to travel overseas, and therefore have no use for an expensive passport, does not make them ignorant in and of itself.
What do passports have to do with it?
I’m an American who didn’t learn where India and Brazil are on maps of the world (but I’m glad I caught up! yay geography!) until several years after I had my first passport. See, I had my first passport when I was an infant and my parents got a passport for me in order to bring me when visiting relatives abroad.
secretary for defence bursts into G.W. Bush’s office and says ” three brazillian soldiers have been killed in iraq today” to the secretary’s suprise Bush goes into a state of shock and terror. after several hours he calms dfown enough to say “so let’s get this straight: exactlty how many is a brazzilion?”
hahaha, that’s a good one
I sure as hell don’t want to visit europe if it’s full of a**holes like you!
Europe isn’t so bad any more, we had a little raid a few hundred years back and sent the worst a-holes away. West. Way out west.
… I wonder what those a-holes are doing now..?
Most of this discussion is childish, pointless bickering. The graph is a JOKE. While statistics show that the majority of Americans are very ignorant when it comes to global affairs, many Americans transcend this. These are also the people who should be smart enough to get the joke. Nationalities are only another boundary to separate people and allow such stereotypes. There are plenty of stupid people everywhere, not just in America.
To Frank: just because someone doesn’t have a passport doesn’t make them thick. Some of us can’t afford, whether financially or morally, to be traipsing the globe for no real reason, polluting the planet and boosting your own self-righteousness. I personally have travelled but it’s not something that should be used as an intellectual weapon, ffs.
Also, my comiserations to History Professor – must be a pain to have to work with people who are that far in the dark. I applaud your courage in educating them. All the world needs is an education.
People – get the hell over yourselves and take a joke or start your well-needed learning.
Wow people, relax. It’s supposed to be funny, which means things are going to be exaggerated. Many jokes are based on hyperbole. It’s why they’re funny. Watch some Jay Leno street interviews and see why this graph was made. Not all Americans are ignorant, but enough are to create a stereotype.
Lump me. I don’t care about anywhere except where I live! Ha!
Eh, it sounds about right.
aww look at the foreiners trying so hard to insult america… this should be put on failbog, cause we dont care if we aren’t the smartest country, we still run the world
The word you’re trying to spell is “ruin”, with “i”…
Now THAT was funny. Good comment, sir or madam.
seconded
second that
Thirded
Fourth’ded. ;3
fifth’ded! OMG funny…Bulb rocks!
Question: Why does everyone who is not American think Americans are stupid, selfish, and, above all, ignorant to the existence of the rest of the world?
Another question: Why do my fellow Americans take bullshit like this so personally? It obviously a joke based on the “Average American” stereotype, which everyone knows, is untrue for a large number of people (But is still, I sadly admit, true.).
I, personally, can locate quite a few major/large countries, and know the general area of lesser known/smaller countries.
As an Australian living in the US, I think it’s not that Americans in general are ignorant, but that the level of ignorance reached by a few can be so ridiculous that we take notice of those people more than the real “average” American.
For example, here’s a comment made by my college ex-roommate (an Anglo-Saxon nth-generation American): “Singapore? I didn’t know they speak English there. Isn’t Asia totally third-world?”
Don’t high schools teach about the history, politics and economics of countries outside of the Americas?
Yes. We’re also taught about England, a little bit of France/Spain/Germany, and a lot about ancient (but not present!) Greece and Italy. That’s it unless you’re taking college-level history/geography/whatever courses, and I’m not even joking.
Another question: Why is it that, when an American makes a self-referential joke, people automatically assume that that person CAN’T be an American, because they don’t worship America as a god?
Oh, forgot to mention, I think the chart is pretty damn funny.
China needs to be red and Australia needs to be blue.
…I am white and likely are you.
(Adaption of roses are red—for those who did not get it)
Youre a clever nobody, arent you?
I am white! Word.
You haven’t seen our youth then:
wow, that little girl really is amazing
On the other hand, I’m Australian and my co-workers don’t know what “the UK” or “Great Britain” are. And at least one of them had been there. This graph is probably true (with slight adjustments) for Australia and the UK as well.
I recall a study about 20 years ago that reported 50% of American high school students couldn’t even locate the U.S on a globe.
Hang on a minute! Are you saying the world isn’t flat? What kind of crazy are you??
Offensive. Not true.
i think you guys need to lighten up, i thought it was hilarious.
and i can’t locate iraq on a map (almost, though). i don’t really care about it, though.
I don’t know what I think is more fun with this;
The map or the number of people who think it’s “offensive” and “not true”.
I’d agree that it’s a tad bit offensive, but not true is something that it’s NOT.
I’m giving you US’ers a little hint here:
Instead of defending your country, try to do something to make these stereotypes disappear!
Oh, and this “graph” is absolutely top notch.
What’s *really* funny is the number of “Americans aren’t ignorant” comments with glaring errors in gramer and speeling.
Gramer and speeling, huh? Wow.
failing to see sarcasm faiiiiiiil
Being English, I found this quite amusing. I also found that so many people getting butthurt over it, was also very funny. All in all, I laughed.
But… but… *sob* Australia has to be on the like list. Because if we’re not *sob* then it means… it means… you don’t love us and we can’t be your loyal tagalongs any more. And then who are we going to follow?
My world has crumpled!
(roflcopter)
Looks like we need a living awful Aussie stereotype to degrade and endear us again. Probably involving crocodiles, and a really overdone accent… Say, we got this girl who’s named after a weed… Lol.
I know! We have kangaroos and everything
Surely the kangaroos should win us a few points?
I also remember a funny story about one of my friends from when I was living in England. She went to America and someone asked her where she was from. She replied “England.” The person just stared at her and said “okay, but what state is that in?”
Um seriously who doesn’t know that England is a country! Where do you suppose the English language and Harry Potter came from? Hehe
Don’t get you panties in a bunch. The vast majority of the world population is composed of stupid people, and the ones we have here are just extra funny.
I don’t know, guys, the map is pretty funny, but the Americans defending themselves are even more hilarious. I’m no geography ace myself, but if I were American, I wouldn’t be shouting, “OMG WE OWN TEH WURLD SO WE DUN NEED 2 NO WHERE FINGS R. LOL.”
I’m English, I get stereotyped too, I don’t get all arsey because of it. I just sit here with my scones and cucumber sandwiches (with no crusts, naturally) quite happily. Let’s face it, we’re always going to have stereotypes, there’s absolutely no need for us to whine about it.
Oh, crumbs, I spilt my tea.
Ya whinging pom
Don’t forget your limes!
Meanwhile, I’ll be out in the trailer having sex with near relatives, hogs, and anything else that tickles my fancy, while keeping my guns in easy reach so I can chase off them damn Yankees that try to break into my property! ;P
The “countries Americans can locate but don’t care about” is especially funny!
Dork, i just love ur comment!
I love the graph and the “Americans aren’t ignorant” comments are very funny. pls, just face it… u guys have mostly no clue what is happening in the world and the sad thing is, u all don’t give a sh*t about it.
wait, who gives a shit about sweden?
Colombia should be one of the “red” countries since that is where Americans get their drugs.
Well, I’m just reeling from the fact that
someone thinks Alaska is a different country…
Someone thinks Alaska is a different country?
I made the graph with the implication that the only country every American cares about and can locate is our own. I’m sorry if my graph in any way indicated that I thought Alaska was a different country, instead of part of the U.S.
Sadly, true. There are kids who when asked to name a country will say “Africa.” and “Paris.” I can find all the G8 nations and quite a few other large ones, I really have trouble with the -stans, and Africa.
The license plates for New Mexico say “New Mexico USA” because people are idiots.
Why don’t we car about Italy?
They gave my tummy lasagna!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5POQ4k62×80&feature=related
try learning this song…..
Totally awesome, but SWEDEN? What American gives a crap about Sweden?
Volvos come from Sweden, as does IKEA furniture.
Also, Swedish fish, while not actually from Sweden, have the country in their name.
It seems like a lot of people from Europe’s sole purpose in this world is to be mean to Americans. I’m not saying I’m proud of what the U.S.A has done, but it doesn’t mean that you get to say you’re better than people from the U.S. It’s true that there are a lot of people that are really ignorant, but it’s not like Europeans are all that much better. It’s just not as publicized there because they don’t have as many idiots.
I made the graph. I am an American. I know that there are intelligent people here. It’s called “satire,” dear.
Also, there are idiots in Europe, and it does get publicized. A German friend of mine told about a show where they stopped average Germans in the streets and asked them to put sticky labels on a large map of Europe.
One man, when asked to label Germany (his own country!) put the “Germany” sticker on France. Then, he was given the “France” sticker. Well, he knew France is west of Germany, but there was nothing to the left of the country he’d labeled “Germany.” Rather than realize he’d made a mistake, he stuck the “France” sticker in the ocean, to the west of France. So yeah, there are massive levels of stupidity everywhere.
Yeah. Map is true as are the “I dont care that I dont know” comments. Im English and live in Kentucky. You people ARE ignorant. The few that are not should not be spending their time on websites shouting about how they make America Awesome. Dont get me wrong I love it here and look forward to people telling me that If I think Americans are stupid then I should just go back to France with all the Germans. Graph is missing a couple of things. There are a lot of geeks who can point to Japan on a map because of Anime and quite a few who can point to New Zealand because of LOTR.
haha americans xD
Ha ha ha! There’s this funny thing called satire, not used much in certain countries…
Eh, I’d say not too many people care about Sudan, or even know what it is or why they should care about it.
Americans like Australia, though. Never mind that many people think Australia and Austria are the same country (and probably couldn’t find either one of them on a map).
I’m reminded of the lady in Dumb and Dumber, who is asked where she’s from and says “Austria.”
Jim Carrey’s character responds with “G’day, mate!”
Cracks me up every time.
Who cares! Most Americans can’t even afford to go down the damn street, let alone another country. If we could go to these places, we’d care. I’m an isolationist. Close the borders, eject everyone that is not here legally, eject everyone that downs on the country. Eject all the dumbasses. Stop selling our shit to rich foreigners, including our culture.
I’m tired and we need to get our shit together!
I don’t give a damn where most of these places are.
Guess what? I’m an American. I studied enough history to know what happens when countries isolate themselves for long periods of time. It’s not pretty.
Besides, whether you want to admit it or not, everything the US does affects other countries, AND vice versa, simply by virtue of sharing the same planet. The only way we can “get our shit together” is by refusing to wallow in ignorance and trying to make a positive difference in our country and in the world.
Frankly, sir, it’s people like you that make me ashamed of my own country.
Yeah! Americans don’t need Middle Eastern oil! Americans can afford a 500% price rise in all manufactured goods once we refuse the cheap labour from foreign countries! We don’t need to import 1500000 million dollar worth of stuff every year! We were just being nice to the rest of the world!
We don’t need all those foreign academics, scientists and engineers working in this country. We allowed them in just to laugh at their accents!
We should stop pushing our TV, food and fashion into other countries. Sure we get billions in return, but we were just doing them a favour by opening all those McDonalds! We even showed them Scary Movie 1, 2, 3 AND 4. And do they thank us? No…
Sad but very true. The average American seems to think the world revolves around us, just like the lame ass comment boneheaded 216 posted. Our news media isn’t any help when they barely comment on SOME things going on elsewhere in the world. Rednecks like 216 these don’t grasp, and don’t want to, that what happens elsewhere effects them far more than they care to realize, most especially in their wallets. Sadly, it’s these narrow minded individuals who elected Bush into the White House, who produced the current economic fiasco we are in.
Ok, M e l o d y. If you don’t like it, why don’t you move to one of your beloved foreign countries because I gotta tell you honey, I’m sick to death of you and your type. Oh, by the way, I got a redneck bone for you.
I bet you call yourself a good christian, too. I especially like the implied sex(rape) with your ‘redneck bone’ comment.
sicko
Stereotypical american does not equate to AVERAGE american.
A lot of Americans listen to programs like NPR you know…not all of us are Fox-News-Loving, Wall Street-Subprime-Mortgage-Lending jackasses!
…but there IS a disturbing number of Americans that this pertains to. *shudder*
Sadly, I know someone who thought that Germany was located in Mexico and thought that the North Pole might fall off the earth…
Amerifag here, I did it for the lulz
Please continue to be offended, it is highly entertaining
So true. As an American I was quite amused because I so don’t know exactly where the Sudan is! And I can’t believe some of the serious posts here; apparently many Americans also cannot locate their sense of humor on a map.
Pop quiz for the day: Is Africa a country or continent?!
*South* Africa is a country on the continent of Africa!
I’M AMERRICKAN DID I PASS OMGBBQ?!?
I absolutely love the way that Americans are affronted by this sort of thing and are unable to take things in a humorous way.
Here is a newsflash to all those posting serious defensive comments on here inclusive of your spelling mistakes and appalling levels of grammar. You are ridiculous. You are figures of fun. People reading your comments don’t think how brave and clever you are to be American. They laugh at you.
The world doesn’t like you.
The world pities you.
The world wants to leave you drowning in your own burger and doughnut vomit.
But I don’t eat donuts or hamburgers! I do eat salmon. Can you give me salmon? Or maybe I can drown in Starbucks espresso(not the real espresso from Europe, thought.)
Are you a terrorist?
@RJ
>But I don’t eat donuts or hamburgers! I do eat salmon. Can you give me salmon?
I have no more salmon to give sadly. I doubt you would know what do with it if I did however. Burgers made from salmon are uncommon you see.
>Or maybe I can drown in Starbucks espresso(not the real espresso from Europe, thought.)
Maybe you could. Why did you put the word ‘thought’ at the end of your sentence. Did you mean the word ‘though’? I know its difficult to sit through 8th grade for the 4th time but you will get there in the end.
>Are you a terrorist?
No I am not, although this is a typical Merkin reaction. ‘Hang on, he’s sayin’ stuff about all y’all, he must be one of them terrorists’. For your information, the rest of the world has had to deal with American led and funded terrorism for decades. The IRA received American funding and don’t get me started about South American regimes and the Afghan Mujaradeen (Hey guess what Americans? The CIA bankrolled the Taliban in the late 70s and early 80s – Ooops!)
At least I now know I’m far above average.
good post!
I once talked to someone from America who thought that New Zealand was an actual like err (thinking of a none racist way to say this) “native” island with hardly any power and people living in huts.
Obviously this was before Lord of The Rings…
It’s not just a problem in America though, ignorance and thinking too much of ones self seems to go hand in hand with living in a large and influential country
I once spoke to an American. I was asked where I came from. I said the UK. She said, wow, I didn’t know they spoke american in the Ukraine.
Then I bludgeoned her with a rusty spade.
True, but it takes about 5 seconds to find a map where all the nations have their names right on top of them.
most canadians are stupider than americans
I know this is a joke, but there seems to be a lot of people taking this way too seriously…
In any graph like this… Do… They…
They don’t actually ask three hundred million people to locate and rate each nation on a map for relevance to their social conscience.
Wow, this must be the first time defensive Americans haven’t resorted to calling people brave enough to criticise the USA a “fag”.
Well done to all concerned.
Personally, I’m sick to the back teeth of having the US Presidential Election on my news programmes for the last year. Who outside the US cares?
Epic.
Ha ha ha! Yeah, America is basically stupid. Well this is a little hyperbolic, I hope. I’d like to think that the people for which this graph is true are a minority here, but maybe not. still funny as hell. I’ve met people like this; they cracked me up.
how is the US not marked red? most Americans when asked to name a country starting with the letter “U” couldn’t even do that.
true true
I’m always amazed when ppl can’t locate countries on maps – I mean, hello, maps always have the NAMES of the countries RIGHT ON THE MAP!!!!
Oh, and why is Norway red? Who cares about them?
…That’s Sweden, not Norway. You know, Sweden? Source of ABBA, IKEA, Volvos, and Swedish meatballs?
Norway is the one to the left of Sweden.
I.m amazed and embarrassed when people can’t even locate states within our own country O_o
pretty much true and halarious
haha wow…kinda true..i know a couple of the red states though..and the rest is true..
though i am 13…haha oh well