Don't be so optimistic.I could walk outside this building and conduct a simple experiment. With a world map or globe, I would just ask passersby to point out the nation of Turkey and where generally Armenia is. I can't predict exactly how many could find one or both, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say about 20% for Turkey, and 1% for Armenia.
Tequila,Originally Posted by tequila
You're probably right. 20% is probably way too high.
You might as well have posted a link to Miss Teenage South Carolina, who when asked why 1/5 of Americans could not locate the U.S. on a world map gave her legendary answer...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
You know, some people out there do not have maps. Er, the Iraq...
I gave that figure off the cuff, mainly because there is bound to be some people who have looked at a map of the Middle East, which usually accompanies a Bible, tracing the journeys of the Apostle Paul. So they at least have maps!
Mark Twain once wrote that war is God's way of teaching America geography. Apparently, even war doesn't even work anymore.
No signature required, my handshake is good enough.
The Art of Confabulation ~ Armenians and Kurds
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21553151/
"Boosted profile for ‘emboldened’ Kurdish rebels
Kurdistan Workers’ Party in spotlight after years of drifting, factionalism
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Now the Kurdistan Workers’ Party has commandeered debate over Turkey’s Kurdish ethnic minority with attacks that goaded the government into threatening a cross-border offensive against separatist hideouts in Iraq.
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The PKK, estimated to have 5,000 fighters, could benefit politically from an Iraq campaign by claiming to be the champion of all Kurds in the face of an invader with a history of human rights abuses. "
an invader with a history of human rights abuses (ouch)
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