New Zealand, making Americans look smart (who'd have thought that possible)

[glenn1]

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THE rest of the world could be forgiven for not being able to find New Zealand tucked away in the bottom right hand corner of most world maps.

But educators are worried after a study published today showed two out of three eight and nine-year-old New Zealanders couldn't locate their own country on the globe.

The National Education Monitoring Project survey showed some children put New Zealand, a South Pacific nation of four million, in the Northern Hemisphere, others in North America, near to South America or even Africa.

The survey also showed about 40 per cent of 12 and 13-year-olds still did not know the precise location of their homeland.

 

[Red Dawn]

Kiwi's are cool and for the most part they like Americans.

BTW, most Americans don't know where France is. It's not because they are ignorant, it's more of a case that they just don't give a sh!t.

 

[ElFenix]

i think its right down there next to australia.


no... wait... thats tasmania... crap!

 

[trmiv]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Kiwi's are cool and for the most part the like Americans.

Yea that was my experience when I went there. Great place to visit, and really nice people. Too bad about the dumb kids though.

 

[Moonbeam]

I can understand the difficult of finding New zealand, but I''ll bet everybody knows where Old Zealand is. It's easy to get behind on things.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Kiwi's are cool and for the most part the like Americans.

BTW, most Americans don't know where France is. It's not because they are ignorant, it's more of a case that they just don't give a sh!t.

Seriously, Red Dawn... it France we're talking about here

nik

 

[Moonbeam]

Yup, ELFenix, you don't want to try to swim it.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Yup, ELFenix, you don't want to try to swim it.

big sharks, i think. big ones. like jaws. but they don't attack roy scheider.

 

[kassy]

Oh boy... as a New Zealander I feel the need to defend my country...

We don't need to know where New Zealand is on a map because we are too busy doing the important things in life:

Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander, split the atom.
Edmund Hillary, a New Zealander, decided to take a holiday and conquer Mount Everest while doing it.
Two New Zealanders invented the jet boat and bungee jumping while in a drunken stupor.
Peter Jackson, a New Zealander, well...... LOTR - enough said.
Kiri Te Kanawa- one of the greatest Opera singers alive..
Anna Pacquin, Sam Neill, Russell Crowe and Crowded House
John Britten - designed the BrittenV1000 and BrittenV1100 (motorbikes for those who don't know)
Colin Murdoch - inventor of the disposable syringe that we all take for granted
Mark Todd. Master Horseman.
Naomi James. First woman to sail around the world single handed, in 1978.
John Walker. First person to run the sub 3min. 50sec. mile.
Godfrey Bowen. Fastest sheep shearer in the World.
Harold Williams. Guinness Book of Records, greatest linguist. He spoke 58 Languages.
Denny Hulme. World Formula 1 Champion 1967.
Bob Charles. Golf.
Bruce McLaren. Motor Racing.
Chris Amon. Motor Racing
Richard Pearce. First person to fly - March 1903. He beat the Wright brothers by 9 months.(being debated at the moment)
Sir Harold Gillies - plastic surgeon pioneer
Jane Campion - Film director
The All Blacks. Rugby - Sean Fitzpatrick, Jonah Lomu and Frankie Bunce.
Richard Hadlee - one of Crickets best.
Lucy Lawless - Actress ("Xena - Warrior Princess")
William Pickering. The man behind America's first launch into space with the 'Explorer 1' rocket
and New Zealand is still teaching America how to sail.. we have held the America's Cup for the past two seasons.
Not bad for a country with a population of less than 4 million.

Btw - mentioning New Zealand and France in the same sentence to a New Zealander will generally result in a broken nose.

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: kassy
Oh boy... as a New Zealander I feel the need to defend my country...

We don't need to know where New Zealand is on a map because we are too busy doing the important things in life:

Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander, split the atom.
Edmund Hillary, a New Zealander, decided to take a holiday and conquer Mount Everest while doing it.
Two New Zealanders invented the jet boat and bungee jumping while in a drunken stupor.
Peter Jackson, a New Zealander, well...... LOTR - enough said.
Kiri Te Kanawa- one of the greatest Opera singers alive..
Anna Pacquin, Sam Neill, Russell Crowe and Crowded House
John Britten - designed the BrittenV1000 and BrittenV1100 (motorbikes for those who don't know)
Colin Murdoch - inventor of the disposable syringe that we all take for granted
Mark Todd. Master Horseman.
Naomi James. First woman to sail around the world single handed, in 1978.
John Walker. First person to run the sub 3min. 50sec. mile.
Godfrey Bowen. Fastest sheep shearer in the World.
Harold Williams. Guinness Book of Records, greatest linguist. He spoke 58 Languages.
Denny Hulme. World Formula 1 Champion 1967.
Bob Charles. Golf.
Bruce McLaren. Motor Racing.
Chris Amon. Motor Racing
Richard Pearce. First person to fly - March 1903. He beat the Wright brothers by 9 months.(being debated at the moment)
Sir Harold Gillies - plastic surgeon pioneer
Jane Campion - Film director
The All Blacks. Rugby - Sean Fitzpatrick, Jonah Lomu and Frankie Bunce.
Richard Hadlee - one of Crickets best.
Lucy Lawless - Actress ("Xena - Warrior Princess")
William Pickering. The man behind America's first launch into space with the 'Explorer 1' rocket
and New Zealand is still teaching America how to sail.. we have held the America's Cup for the past two seasons.
Not bad for a country with a population of less than 4 million.

Btw - mentioning New Zealand and France in the same sentence to a New Zealander will generally result in a broken nose.

Go back to NZ and be a schoolteacher...seriously they need ya!

 

[kassy]

Go back to NZ and be a schoolteacher...seriously they need ya!

No they don't - by the time they are in College (your Junior High) they all know where New Zealand is and what New Zealanders are capable of.

 

[Cyberian]

Two New Zealanders invented the jet boat and bungee jumping while in a drunken stupor.

What can I say? I am duly impressed.

 

[JellyBaby]

Didn't we defeat New Zealand in the war of 1812, over 500 years ago?

 

[Moonbeam]

Actually, Jelly, the War of 1812 wasn't fought until much later, so it's more like 600 years

 

[JellyBaby]

You're right Moonbeam! Sorry I'm terrible at geometry.

 

[Moonbeam]

Yes, well you're a penguin and easily snowed.

 

[Cyberian]

Naomi James. First woman to sail around the world single handed, in 1978.

How did she find her way home?

 

[kassy]

Originally posted by: Cyberian

Naomi James. First woman to sail around the world single handed, in 1978.

How did she find her way home?

One can only assume that she had passed the geographically challenged ages of 12 and 13 .

:Q

 

[Moonbeam]

I don't know how she got home but I'm pretty sure she circumcised the globe with a forty foot cutter.

 

[kassy]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
I don't know how she got home but I'm pretty sure she circumcised the globe with a forty foot cutter.

After running out of men it was either the globe or sheep...

 

[Maverick]

I hear new zealanders also get really pissed if you call 'em Aussies

 

[kassy]

Originally posted by: Shiva112
I hear new zealanders also get really pissed if you call 'em Aussies

LMAO - that is very true... I am often asked which part of Australia I am from, although yesterday a lady asked me if I came to the US from Scotland...

 

[BornStar]

Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander, split the atom.

Isn't this the place with like 40 billion nuclear free sheep?

 

[kassy]

Originally posted by: BornStar18

Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander, split the atom.

Isn't this the place with like 40 billion nuclear free sheep?

Yes, thats one - New Zealand has a nuclear free policy, much to the annoyance of the US.