{"id":267862,"date":"2017-05-15T07:19:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T11:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=267862"},"modified":"2020-08-23T07:29:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T11:29:20","slug":"1746-american-adults-were-asked-to-point-out-north-korea-on-a-map-this-was-the-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/1746-american-adults-were-asked-to-point-out-north-korea-on-a-map-this-was-the-result\/","title":{"rendered":"1,746 American Adults Were Asked To Point Out North Korea On A Map: This Was The Result"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
A country without culture and education but ready to attack and invade any state even if they have absolutely no idea of where it\u2019s located \u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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In April 2014, just as the Ukraine conflict (and proxy civil war) was hitting its climax, in the process undermining US-Russian relations for years,\u00a0some 2,066 Americans were asked\u00a0to show where the Ukraine was on a map. The result, while leaving something to be desired, was not terrible.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to this weekend, when the\u00a0NYT repeated the same exercise\u00a0with the latest geopolitical hotspot: North Korea. In an experiment led by Kyle Dropp of Morning Consult, he asked 1,746 American adults to point to where North Korea is on the world map. This was the raw result:<\/p>\n

Aside from showing that the majority of Americans are terrible at geography – hardly news – the NYT provided the following details explaining why the study was conducted: respondents who could correctly identify North Korea\u00a0tended to view diplomatic and nonmilitary strategies more favorably than those who could not. These strategies included imposing further economic sanctions, increasing pressure on China to influence North Korea and conducting cyberattacks against military targets in North Korea.<\/p>\n

They also viewed direct military engagement \u2013 in particular, sending ground troops \u2013 much less favorably than those who failed to locate North Korea, according to the NYT report. The largest difference between the groups was the simplest: Those who could find North Korea were much more likely to disagree with the proposition that the United States should do nothing about North Korea.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, education was a major factor in participants\u2019 ability to find North Korea. Those with postgraduate degrees had among the most success; the only ones who did better were people who said they knew someone of Korean ancestry. Those who had visited or been to a foreign country were also much more likely to find North Korea than those who had not.<\/p>\n

However what was far more surprising according to the Morning Consult survey, is that\u00a0on average,\u00a0Republicans \u2013 and Republican men in particular \u2013 were more likely to correctly locate North Korea than Democratic men.\u00a0And Republicans were more likely to be in favor of almost all the diplomatic solutions posed by the researchers. (Women tended to find North Korea at similar rates, regardless of party.)<\/p>\n

Which is surprising considering the Democrats’ reputations of being more progressive and, at least on paper, seek non-violent problem resolution. As the NYT further adds:<\/p>\n

Geographic knowledge itself may contribute to an increased appreciation of the complexity of geopolitical events. This finding is consistent with \u2013 though not identical to \u2013 a similar experiment Mr. Dropp, Joshua D. Kertzer and Thomas Zeitzoff conducted in 2014. They asked Americans to identify Ukraine on a map and asked them whether they supported military intervention. The farther a respondent\u2019s guess was from Ukraine, the researchers found, the more likely he or she was to favor military intervention.<\/p>\n

Perhaps there is another reason: Ameriacns simply don’t care. Be that as it may, Americans\u2019 relatively low interest in North Korea is not recroprical. \u201cNorth Koreans are obsessed with the United States,\u201d wrote Barbara Demick, the former Beijing bureau chief for The Los Angeles Times, in an interview with the New Yorker.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey hold the U.S. responsible for the division of the Korean peninsula and seem to believe that U.S. foreign policy since the mid-20th century has revolved around the single-minded goal\u201d of damaging them, she said. \u201cThe cruelest thing you can do is tell a North Korean that many Americans couldn\u2019t locate North Korea on a map.\u201d<\/p>\n

In any case, the bottom line is clear: “Americans\u2019 inability to identify countries and places is not new.\u00a0A Roper survey in 2006 found that, in the midst of the Iraq war, six in 10 young adults could not locate Iraq on a map of the Middle East; about 75 percent could not identify Iran or Israel; and only half could identify New York state.”<\/p>\n

As for North Korea, with just 36% of respondents being able to identify North Korea – and seek a diplomatic solution – it implies that roughly two-thirds of American adults would rather take the Kim regime out entirely. Which hardly bodes well for the longevity of\u00a0 the North Korean dictator.<\/p>\n

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