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Re: Microsoft pays dear for insults through ignorance

Subject: Re: Microsoft pays dear for insults through ignorance
From: Lee Hunter <lee -dot- hunter -at- hum -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:08:23 -0400


oudeis wrote:

In a frank assessment of the company's problems in trying to be a global player without offending local sensibilities, Tom Edwards, its senior geopolitical strategist, said employees' lack of basic geography was to blame.

Not too surprising.

According to a National Geographic survey of young Americans (18-24) a few years ago

- 30 percent couldn't find the Pacific Ocean on a map
- 60 percent couldn't find Japan
- 11 percent couldn't even find the US
- 1/3 thought the US population was between 1 and 2 billion



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