How would you answer the following question:
Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?
I might discuss the failure of our education system, the prevalence of television in the lives of children, the lack of funding for geography, American hegemony and nationalism making people uninterested in the world, or myriad other explanations for this poll's results.
I would be incorrect, of course, because Miss South Carolina explains it most succinctly:
See it at youtube.com.
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