Nearly 80% of Americans Unable to Name Country They Celebrate Independence From

[EEO]

Do you know what year your country was founded and the name of the country you celebrate independence from? Satire warning.

Nearly 80% of Americans Unable to Name Country They Celebrate Independence From

WASHINGTON (The Nil Admirari): A study released today showed Americans have a distressing ignorance about the history of the United States, including its founding. Approximately 78% of surveyed Americans either incorrectly identified the country they celebrate independence from or refused to identify the country while claiming they wanted to see if the researcher knew it first.

And...

Schneider added, "Other incorrectly identified 'countries' were Texas, 'The South,' Spain, New England, and the Isle of Man."

Source: TNA

[HassleCat]

1. Gotta be a joke

Whoever responded with "Isle of Man" had to be pulling someone's chain.

[Demit]

2. Ya think? "America's Most Swell News Source"

[deafskeptic]

3. I find that difficult to believe n/t

[Fred Sanders]

4. Ungrateful Colonials wanted to keep their slaves and lucrative slave trade....and so they did.

[tymorial]

6. This is such a preposterous notion.

The American Revolution was not about slavery.

[Fred Sanders]

7. Human trading was very lucrative for the Colonists, and slaves got banned in Britain in 1772...

Better to get ahead of that happening in the Colonies.

Do not forget what "trade" really meant in 1776 and it wasn't tea making the Colonies rich.

[tymorial]

9. Every July 4th its always the same

I see I will need to take a break before my head explodes.

[Leontius]

12. But not the slave trade itself.

The first law to outlaw the slave trade was enacted by Virginia on Oct 5, 1778

[Bluenorthwest]

16. Slaves on British home soil banned in 1772, the British Slave Trade continued until 1807 and slavery

was not abolished in the British Empire until 1833's Slavery Abolition Act.

[tymorial]

5. I find this VERY hard to believe

[marym625]

8. This is hilarious!

Sad, though, that it isn't obvious satire to everyone.

Here's my favorite article from them

Justices Kennedy and Scalia Throw Punches in Court Chamber

http://www.theniladmirari.com/2015/07/justices-kennedy-and-scalia-throw.html?m=1

[Thor_MN]

18. No, it isn't.

I find little humor in theniladmirari. Wish block by keyword would keep it off the home page, but it doesn't.

[HooptieWagon]

10. The ignorance is astounding.

For example, who knew the Revolutionary War was fought to preserve slavery?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016126493
<rolleyes>

[Fred Sanders]

13. The British colony in America had a great engine of profitable trade in human beings, not tea...of course

they wanted to preserve the slave trade....and they did...and many got fabulously wealthy for decades to come, even to the point of going to war to protect the profits.

History is your friend in knowledge, and is often not kind to present day sensibilities...it was what it was.

No eye-rolling needed.

[Bluenorthwest]

17. The British Slave Trade continued until 1807 and slavery was legal in the Empire until 1833

The Crown was not opposing but sustaining the Atlantic Slave trade at the time of the Revolution in 1776.

[awoke_in_2003]

11. ...

[DavidDvorkin]

14. It's a satirical Web site

The real number is probably 75% at the most.

[Springslips]

15. Shitty satire is shitty.

No social point is made, and it is written just like a real news story. The art of satire is lost on too many people that want to write it. The carnard, " real satire must be close as possible to the real thing," is ignorant. Satire must use well known tropes or invent knew ones to signal the reader. Without these what you get is mere trolling, just trying to fool people, and trolling has no value as literature.