This comes courtesy of Merce Romero, a friend at

Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Spain:

United Nations Survey


Last month, a world-wide survey was conducted by the UN.

The only question asked was...

"Would you please give your honest

opinion about solutions to the food

shortage in the rest of the world?"

The survey was a huge failure because...



In Africa they didn't know what "food" meant.

In Eastern Europe they didn't know what "honest" meant.

In Western Europe they didn't know what "shortage" meant.

In China they didn't know what "opinion" meant.

In the Middle East they didn't know what "solution" meant.

In South America they didn't know what "please" meant.

In the USA they didn't know what "the rest of the world" meant.



From Global Village - The Times Colour Supplement 24/08/02

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And as pointed out by Ryan Cox,
"The majority of Americans want to bomb the [everlasting snot] out of Iraq, but in a recent survey
only 13% can point to it on a map." This is atrocious. As Ryan points out, "if people knew more about Iraq and the situation, their opinions might be different." Do you know where Iraq is?