Why can't residents of the US identify it on the world map?
I love Miss Teen USA 2007 (Paris Hilton Jr), South Carolina's answer. "It's like, the US America has polls that show that people don't know . . . and South Africa or Iraq are . . . um . . . US." Gah!
Ok, so she's probably 15 or 16 years old and now wants to hide under a rock and never come out for the rest of her life. Or we can sort of hope she at least feels a little that way and is just not just completely blissfully oblivious. I mean I don't want her to be scarred for life, but c'mon.
You can see that she's nervous and she's trying to process all the advice they taught her in Charm School at the same time she's trying to come up with a coherent beauty queen answer.
. o O ( Think. Stay poised. Rephrase the question about polls. What's another country? Um it's good to talk about South Africa cause you're supposed to say something about world hunger in these questions and there was like some fighting there. And like Iraq is another country that's like political and people talk about it and some of those people are really mad about something. And like the US is part of America, so I'll say the US of something to show that I sorta know it's like on that continent America. )
Gah.
Easy answers for her could be, people don't travel to other countries from the US as often since it's a large and very populated country and so there is less practical need to pick it out on a map when it might be of more practical value to need to pick out the surrounding states or cities on a map (which are often the size of many European countries, anyway).
Or she could use it to talk about education and how children might not be involved in their classes and how they could use better teaching methods. Or she could even give a beauty queen answer and talk about hunger as in "Many people in the US are starving and we need to learn how to ensure that people are fed and can afford access to quality medical care, since learning to identify the US on the map may not seem as urgent if you don't know where your next meal is coming from, or you're dying of cancer and have no health insurance, and you have other things to worry about."
Or even, "people from the US are lazy and watch far too much MTV and they should spend their time learning American Sign Language WHICH IS MY TALENT instead of just watching TV. Then they could ask a deaf person where the US is on a world map and they could feel warm for doing something so sweet to someone less fortunate and beautiful than someone like me."
Ok, so she's probably 15 or 16 years old and now wants to hide under a rock and never come out for the rest of her life. Or we can sort of hope she at least feels a little that way and is just not just completely blissfully oblivious. I mean I don't want her to be scarred for life, but c'mon.
You can see that she's nervous and she's trying to process all the advice they taught her in Charm School at the same time she's trying to come up with a coherent beauty queen answer.
. o O ( Think. Stay poised. Rephrase the question about polls. What's another country? Um it's good to talk about South Africa cause you're supposed to say something about world hunger in these questions and there was like some fighting there. And like Iraq is another country that's like political and people talk about it and some of those people are really mad about something. And like the US is part of America, so I'll say the US of something to show that I sorta know it's like on that continent America. )
Gah.
Easy answers for her could be, people don't travel to other countries from the US as often since it's a large and very populated country and so there is less practical need to pick it out on a map when it might be of more practical value to need to pick out the surrounding states or cities on a map (which are often the size of many European countries, anyway).
Or she could use it to talk about education and how children might not be involved in their classes and how they could use better teaching methods. Or she could even give a beauty queen answer and talk about hunger as in "Many people in the US are starving and we need to learn how to ensure that people are fed and can afford access to quality medical care, since learning to identify the US on the map may not seem as urgent if you don't know where your next meal is coming from, or you're dying of cancer and have no health insurance, and you have other things to worry about."
Or even, "people from the US are lazy and watch far too much MTV and they should spend their time learning American Sign Language WHICH IS MY TALENT instead of just watching TV. Then they could ask a deaf person where the US is on a world map and they could feel warm for doing something so sweet to someone less fortunate and beautiful than someone like me."
