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Justin Kimberlake
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 Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:51 pm Post subject: They DON'T Know. |
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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=126&art_id=nw20080624092141937C812016
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Seoul - South Korean teenagers see the United States as a greater threat to national security than North Korea, and a majority do not know that the North started the 1950-53 war, surveys published on Tuesday showed.
The Ministry of Public Administration and Security surveyed 1 016 middle and high school students to mark Wednesday's 58th anniversary of the North's invasion, local newspapers reported.
Fewer than half knew the war began in 1950 and just 48,7 percent said the communist North started it. Others blamed Japan (13,5 percent), the United States (13,4), Russia (11), China (3,4) and South Korea itself (2).
Some 64 percent were not worried about the North starting another war and only 56 percent said they felt threatened by its nuclear weapons. |
Explains a lot. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:09 am Post subject: |
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Not really. It's not only youth that is wasted on the young, education is too. You'd be hard pressed in any country to find teenagers who can spout dates and simple facts of recent history. |
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Netz
Joined: 11 Oct 2004
Location: a parallel universe where people and places seem to be the exact opposite of "normal"
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:25 am Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
Not really. It's not only youth that is wasted on the young, education is too. You'd be hard pressed in any country to find teenagers who can spout dates and simple facts of recent history. |
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In any country? I'm going to disagree, as I'm fairly sure many European educational entities hold a higher standard overall in regards to general knowledge. I don't think German kids are kept in the dark about it (history) for sure.
That's beside the point though.
Don't you think it's a little different scenario here, because these kids must have some crazy ideas in thier heads about all the US millitary bases and personnel here if not.
Then again..........nevermind. |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:15 am Post subject: |
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| You can blame the KTU for most of this rubbish. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:50 am Post subject: |
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| Fishead soup wrote: |
| You can blame the KTU for most of this rubbish. |
I blame Roh and his Education policy. He did everything he could to paint the cloudy distorted picture we have today. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:07 am Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
Not really. It's not only youth that is wasted on the young, education is too. You'd be hard pressed in any country to find teenagers who can spout dates and simple facts of recent history. |
It's true. You get alarmist reports in the newspapers in Britain every few years or so saying that some survey found 75% of teenagers didn't know who Churchill was or something like that; and I believe the same happens in the US.
Not worth worrying about. They'll grow up and piece it together. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
| Fishead soup wrote: |
| You can blame the KTU for most of this rubbish. |
I blame Roh and his Education policy. He did everything he could to paint the cloudy distorted picture we have today. |
Roh? I'd go further back than that. Kim Young-sam was a bigger idiot than Roh ever aspired to be. |
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