Where is North Korea?

[Virgil Showlion]

Courtesy of the NYT and ZH.






  (slow clapping)

OK. Who here is willing to admit they'd be part of the 2/3rds of Americans to get this wrong?

[cael]

Is there a link to try this ourselves?... I think I know but I'm not 100% sure.

That's a looooot of pretty wrong guesses.

[ArchietheDragon]

The fact that they are all in the eastern hemisphere prove that they did not get a good sample of the US population. 

[ken a.k.a OMK]

Don't ask Trump. 

[Virgil Showlion]

May 15, 2017 14:11:16 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

The fact that they are all in the eastern hemisphere prove that they did not get a good sample of the US population. 

The NYT limited the map to Asia.

Of course that didn't stop some people from getting the continent wrong, or guessing at various places in the middle of the ocean.

[busymom]

Drive to China & take a right.  Or, did I miss the turn at Albuquerque?  (Bugs Bunny reference...)  

[Tennesseer]

May 15, 2017 14:09:08 GMT -5 cael said:

Is there a link to try this ourselves?... I think I know but I'm not 100% sure.

That's a looooot of pretty wrong guesses.

Here is the link to the NYT and map story.

If Americans Can Find North Korea on a Map, They’re More Likely to Prefer Diplomacy

[Tennesseer]

I liked this from the NYT's article:

Americans’ relatively low interest in North Korea is not reciprocal. “North Koreans are obsessed with the United States,” wroteBarbara Demick, the former Beijing bureau chief for The Los Angeles Times, in an interview with the New Yorker.

“They 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” of damaging them, she said. “The cruelest thing you can do is tell a North Korean that many Americans couldn’t locate North Korea on a map.”

[tallguy]

May 15, 2017 17:40:14 GMT -5 deminmaine said:

It's just north of South Karolina of course.

But really, that is quite sad.

Not as sad as South Karolina.   

[Deleted]

Q: Where is North Korea?

A: That-a-way... (as I point in a generally Westerly direction)... unless you want to go the other way, 'round teh planet... then it's that-a-way (as I point in a generally Easterly direction)


ETA: for reference, I'm at just North of the 36th parallel, and North Korea is (mostly) North of the 38th Parallel, just West of the Sea of Japan.

[spartan7886]

I'll admit, I got it wrong based off the given map. I knew it was the northern half of a peninsula and it borders China. On this particular map, the dots obscured the border between Myanmar and Thailand at the edge of the peninsula, making it look like that area also met those two qualifications. On an unobscured map, I think those two facts would have been enough to correctly locate it.

[Virgil Showlion]

May 16, 2017 9:19:11 GMT -5 spartan7886 said:

I'll admit, I got it wrong based off the given map. I knew it was the northern half of a peninsula and it borders China. On this particular map, the dots obscured the border between Myanmar and Thailand at the edge of the peninsula, making it look like that area also met those two qualifications. On an unobscured map, I think those two facts would have been enough to correctly locate it.

Clicking on South Korea, or any mainland nation south of China (Laos, Cambodia, etc.) is forgivable. The only reason I'd get it right is because I knew Korea was invaded by neighbouring Japan during WWII.

But clicking on Japan? China? India? Indonesia? Australia? Russia? I mean come on. How can somebody not know these are not North Korea?

[ArchietheDragon]

May 16, 2017 10:35:50 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

May 16, 2017 9:19:11 GMT -5 spartan7886 said:

I'll admit, I got it wrong based off the given map. I knew it was the northern half of a peninsula and it borders China. On this particular map, the dots obscured the border between Myanmar and Thailand at the edge of the peninsula, making it look like that area also met those two qualifications. On an unobscured map, I think those two facts would have been enough to correctly locate it.

Clicking on South Korea, or any mainland nation south of China (Laos, Cambodia, etc.) is forgivable. The only reason I'd get it right is because I knew Korea was invaded by neighbouring Japan during WWII.

But clicking on Japan? China? India? Indonesia? Australia? Russia? I mean come on. How can somebody not know these are not North Korea?

"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uhmmm, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and uh, I believe that our, I, education like such as, uh, South Africa, and uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uhhh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.”

[Cookies Galore]

Man, 45- to 54-year-olds are dumb! 😆

One thing that was great about my 10th grade world cultures class is that we had to draw all the political boundaries in a blank outline of the continents. I know my countries!

[Tennesseer]

May 16, 2017 14:13:45 GMT -5 Cookies Galore said:

Man, 45- to 54-year-olds are dumb! 😆

One thing that was great about my 10th grade world cultures class is that we had to draw all the political boundaries in a blank outline of the continents. I know my countries!

I have always been interested in maps so I was always studying atlases. Plus I just had to know where lake called Titicaca was.

[Cookies Galore]

May 16, 2017 14:30:55 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

May 16, 2017 14:13:45 GMT -5 Cookies Galore said:

Man, 45- to 54-year-olds are dumb! 😆

One thing that was great about my 10th grade world cultures class is that we had to draw all the political boundaries in a blank outline of the continents. I know my countries!

I have always been interested in maps so I was always studying atlases. Plus I just had to know where lake called Titicaca was.

I still love to study maps!

Lol, Titicaca. Didn't we all love that one?

[Tennesseer]

May 16, 2017 14:34:44 GMT -5 Cookies Galore said:

May 16, 2017 14:30:55 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

I have always been interested in maps so I was always studying atlases. Plus I just had to know where lake called Titicaca was.

I still love to study maps!

Lol, Titicaca. Didn't we all love that one?

Seventh grade geography class was all giggles the day we learned the name of that lake!

[thyme4change]

May 16, 2017 14:34:44 GMT -5 Cookies Galore said:

May 16, 2017 14:30:55 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

I have always been interested in maps so I was always studying atlases. Plus I just had to know where lake called Titicaca was.

I still love to study maps!

Lol, Titicaca. Didn't we all love that one?

My husband is a map geek. Some place from AZ was the moment of peace on CBS Sunday morning and I asked him where it was. He gave me crossroads and directions. I still have no frickin idea where it is. I was looking for "Northwest - between the Grand Canyon and Vegas."

That said, I know where North Korea is. I did look that one up.

[thyme4change]

Also, can we just extrapolate the independents are the smartest and most educated?

[tallguy]

May 16, 2017 14:58:31 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

Also, can we just extrapolate the independents are the smartest and most educated?

I always thought that was a given.  That is WHY they are independent!   

[Tennesseer]

May 16, 2017 14:55:44 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

May 16, 2017 14:34:44 GMT -5 Cookies Galore said:

I still love to study maps!

Lol, Titicaca. Didn't we all love that one?

My husband is a map geek. Some place from AZ was the moment of peace on CBS Sunday morning and I asked him where it was. He gave me crossroads and directions. I still have no frickin idea where it is. I was looking for "Northwest - between the Grand Canyon and Vegas."

That said, I know where North Korea is. I did look that one up.

I can be reading, say, an article about out-of-the-way places to visit in Europe and I have to Google the place name and look at a map and then for pictures of the architecture and the citizens of the area.

[billisonboard]

May 16, 2017 14:13:45 GMT -5 Cookies Galore said:

Man, 45- to 54-year-olds are dumb! 😆

...

I thought about this when I read the article. Theory: So far removed from schooling and MASH 4077 ran when they were too young to pay it much attention.

[mmhmm]

May 16, 2017 15:11:12 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

May 16, 2017 14:55:44 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

My husband is a map geek. Some place from AZ was the moment of peace on CBS Sunday morning and I asked him where it was. He gave me crossroads and directions. I still have no frickin idea where it is. I was looking for "Northwest - between the Grand Canyon and Vegas."

That said, I know where North Korea is. I did look that one up.

I can be reading, say, an article about out-of-the-way places to visit in Europe and I have to Google the place name and look at a map and then for pictures of the architecture and the citizens of the area.

I do the same thing. I've been fortunate to have visited a lot of places in the world but if it's someplace I don't know about, or haven't heard of, I'm going to look it up on Google. I'm always curious. I've been to South Korea so I knew immediately where North Korea was.

[Peace Of Mind]

Where is North Korea?

It's easy to find.  It's the scrotum to Asia's Wang, South Korea.  And a little asshole runs it. 

[swamp]

May 16, 2017 14:13:45 GMT -5 Cookies Galore said:

Man, 45- to 54-year-olds are dumb! 😆

One thing that was great about my 10th grade world cultures class is that we had to draw all the political boundaries in a blank outline of the continents. I know my countries!

Hey, I'm in that group and I know where N. Korea is!!!

But I'm also a nerd, so there is that.........

[Deleted]

Current capability.

www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi589rBxfzTAhWD8CYKHSvNDd0QFghLMAk&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fgraphics%2F2017-nkorea-missiles%2F&usg=AFQjCNF4Pt0BiIPnbTBjqDbYpLf0MSyiNg

[Deleted]

May 15, 2017 13:49:36 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Courtesy of the NYT and ZH.






  (slow clapping)

OK. Who here is willing to admit they'd be part of the 2/3rds of Americans to get this wrong?

I know where Sinanju is.  N. Korea is easy.