Re: Cheney's Halliburton to Control Iraqi Oil?

Rinse de Vries <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.cafe
Organization K Desktop Environment
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Op donderdag 8 mei 2003 23:39, schreef Andreas Pour:
> > >   * 11% could not find the US on a globe
> > >     o almost 1/3 of the Americans thought the US population was 1-2
> > > billion * 29% could not find the Pacific Ocean on a globe
> > >   * 65% could not find France on a globe
> > >   * 69% could not find Great Britain on a globe
> > >   * 83% could not find Afghanistan on a globe
> > >   * 85% could not find Iraq on a globe
> > >   * 85% could not find Israel on a globe

A few years ago we had a holiday program on out tv, and they used a map of the 
region where the broadcast was coming from. They asked Dutch tuorists of all 
ages to point which country they were staying at the moment.
Very few people could point out the correct country.

Then they tried to make it easier, using a map of Euorpe, and asking people to 
point out The Netherlands on the map. Again, only a very small percentage was 
able to recognise their own country on the map most people pointed at Israel, 
Hongary, Italy, sweden, russia, ...


Rinse


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