Even though the US has been at war in Iraq for three years, six in 10 young Americans could not find the country on a map of the world, a Roper poll conducted for National Geographic found.
They did little better with their own country. Despite the media coverage of Hurricane Katrina, almost one-third of Americans between the ages of 17 and 24 could not locate Louisiana, and almost half were unable to identify Mississippi.
Based upon living in America, I found this to be true. I was very surprised how few Americans had passports. As for outside of America, it was considered to be dangerous and full of communists, terrorists, muslims, arabs and generally dodgy individuals.
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