1. Nearly fifty years of pop culture telling Americans that it's not cool to read or be interested in anything except what's being promoted right now in the MSM.
2. School systems that are concerned only with sports and test scores.
I do know what you're talking about. When I taught Japanese, the first order of business on the first day of class was to make sure that everyone knew where Japan is. A goodly percentage of the students couldn't find it on a world map.
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