Most Young Americans Can't Pass a Test on Global Affairs-Can You?
A surprising result comes from a recent survey on American youth nowadays revealed the lack of geopolitical skill that they have. Even though they can answer the primary geographic questioned, they failed to respond on the currently fundamental issues; such as the impact of US dollar on today's economic, the United Nations structure, and the US current politics. Generally, they are unable to associate both cultural and demographic content in a comprehensive statement.
A total of 75 questions the survey given to 1,203 American young adults shows only among 18-to-26-year-olds youth who once took college which has average score, about 55 percent. It turned out that a failure to acknowledge the economics and trade, demographic, and cultural issues have an impact on a person's political choice. This also happened in the Brexit vote case. However, Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, argues that the inability to understand this geopolitical issue as an open door to give a proper education regarding the geopolitical current issues because the American young adults were eventually understand how important it is to know these things.
A surprising result comes from a recent survey on American youth nowadays revealed the lack of geopolitical skill that they have. Even though they can answer the primary geographic questioned, they failed to respond on the currently fundamental issues; such as the impact of US dollar on today's economic, the United Nations structure, and the US current politics. Generally, they are unable to associate both cultural and demographic content in a comprehensive statement.
A total of 75 questions the survey given to 1,203 American young adults shows only among 18-to-26-year-olds youth who once took college which has average score, about 55 percent. It turned out that a failure to acknowledge the economics and trade, demographic, and cultural issues have an impact on a person's political choice. This also happened in the Brexit vote case. However, Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, argues that the inability to understand this geopolitical issue as an open door to give a proper education regarding the geopolitical current issues because the American young adults were eventually understand how important it is to know these things.
