Our leaders of tomorrow -- UCLA students quizzed on the MIddle East

[LongTomH]

A friend sent me the link to this video of students at UCLA being quizzed about the Middle East. The lack of knowledge of countries in the ME is apalling; we're a country that makes noises about being a world leader and our young people are clueless about the rest of the world.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. The Republican Presidential candidates don't know shit about the ME

Why the hell should the kids? Hell, if you get your info from the MSM, we are not even at war!

[MedleyMisty]

2. If you really want to quiz the leaders of tomorrow

Quiz the young peeps at OWS camps. Somehow I think they'll be more informed than people who are being trained to be well behaved corporate slaves.

[KoKo]

3. What do you expect when three Cable channels control World News?

CNN/MSNBC/Fox News.

Then throw in NPR...and you get a stew of disinfo. Two generations now have been raised on "Missing White Women, Abandoned Children, Murder in Peculiar Ways, ...and Celebrity Jaunts and Murders and Gossip. The latest one is "WHO KILLED MICHAEL JACKSON!" run 24/7 wherever you go.

[RKP5637]

4. Quite true and IMO part of the planned obfuscation. n/t

[Mz Pip]

5. that was pathetic

Okay, I didn't know how many Muslim countries there are in the world. I knew it was a lot but I didn't know the exact figure. But all the rest of the questions were pretty easy or should be for anyone who's paying attention to world news.

Pretty amazing. UCLA is a very difficult school to get into - something like a 23% acceptance rate.

[provis99]

6. it's UCLA, not CalTech.

UCLA is just Surfer U, despite all the pretentiousness; all the smart UC students go to Berkeley.