Shoutout to the people who think Ukraine is in Northern Wales.
Shout out to the 16 or so people who think Ukraine is in the ocean just south of Iceland.
Wait. Were we talking about Ukraine, or Atlantis?
SELL THE HOUSES TO WHO, BEN?! FUCKING AQUAMAN?!?!?!
Reminds me of something funny I heard: That after 9/11 a majority of Americans supported the bombing of fictional city Agrabah.
What the fuck were the people selecting countries that don't even border Russia thinking? Surely they got to at least know where the largest country on planet Earth is?
And how is it possible that more than one person chose the Atlantic Ocean?
Disciples of Buster Bluth, who believe that the blue on the map clearly represents land.
I have some bad news for you about how many Americans can identify Russia on a map.
That's honestly better than most of these, like the Iraq survey they did was just completely random dots uniformity blanketing the world.
It's probably becuase the Crimea peninsula is actually a distinctive feature you can point to. Although any dots on Crimea should be labeled incorrect becuase that shit is Russian now bitch.
I do wonder how many of the people doing the survey are actually serious though, because with the Iraq thing I think the vast majority of people would know that it's in the Middle East somewhere and so pointing anywhere else just seems like a joke. And for this, the vast majority of people would know it's in eastern Europe somewhere and so anybody pointing at Germany or further west must also be joking. It's at least 34% of them taking it seriously and it looks like a clear majority put a dot in eastern Europe which IMO is "Not amazing but at least you've got the gist of things as a person who grew up in an underfunded and understaffed education system in a country that believes it's the greatest and only world power and protagonist" but if you're pointing at fucking France then you can't be serious.
It's not as if maps like this really mean anything anyway, it's not as if knowing a country's precise location would give your opinion that you want the US to invade it any more credence, and conversely, if you didn't know a country's precise location, that doesn't mean that your opinion that you want the US to invade it can suddenly be discarded and you will take the L and change your worldview as you've been epically owned by a much smarter person than yourself, sir. On the other hand, if somebody didn't want to invade a country but couldn't point it out on a map then we wouldn't be like "Well, unfortunately, your argument has been weakened by the X, Y, and Z logical fallacies so maybe we should invade it?", and if somebody - hell, even every American - didn't want to invade a country but could point it out on a map then it's not as if that would change literally anything about the US's foreign policy.
I guess it's kinda interesting data but it's not much more than that. It's pretty orthogonal overall, both to questions of invasion or "lethal aid", and your knowledge of the world generally. You can be a perfectly decent person with perfectly decent opinions on domestic and foreign issues and not know what the flag of Austria looks like or what the capital of Morocco is or what Laos looks like. At least, I hopefully have good opinions on those issues and I don't know the answers to those questions without a google search.
Ok but how many of us would give troll answers to this?
Given the option, I would say that Ukraine is located in Washington, D.C. and yes, I do think we should invade :garf-troll:
Honestly they shouldn't be counting anyone who pointed to water, since the person answering is clearly either fucking around or just doesn't care.
Russia is going to invade itself, lel.
At the VERY FUCKING LEAST, there should be NO dots on Great Britain for American hogs, but not even that was achieved.
At least the second largest cluster is in Belarus, and I'll admit to getting them mixed up a lot when first learning Eastern Europe geography.
I've legit seen Americans freeze up when asked to point out the United States on an unlabeled map of the world. I don't think a majority of them have any idea what any part of europe looks like.
I'm honestly surprised that there are so many Americans that know that Ukraine is in Europe
same, I'm surprised that even 34% got it right
though that's probably because it's a Euro country. Do the same with any African/SEA country and that 34% will drop to 4%
TBF, there’s a big cluster just north of Ukraine, so idk. I feel like that’s a mistake I could make and I’ve been there.
I mean, idk how many people know Crimea is a big peninsula. They probably just think “place in Eastern Europe”. Every Eastern European country besides the Baltics and Balkans are all vaguely liver or kidney shaped so it’s easy to mix up I guess.
It’s probably from a bunch of 60 year olds who only know about Ukraine’s existence from vague recollections of news coverage on Chernobyl
To the ten people who thought Ukraine is in Iraq and to that one lonely person who thinks it's in Morocco, I salute you :rat-salute:
The person we should be dunking in this tank is OP for presenting this as anything but a bunch of people giving troll answers
i refuse to believe the random guesses in the middle of oceans are anything but. but then again..
