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Lauren Upton- Give the Girl a Break
Let’s cut this poor girl some slack.
To fill you in on the story, Miss Teen South Carolina Lauren Upton was asked “Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the United States on a world map. Why do you think this is?”
She responded with something that didn’t quite make sense. [Video]
Now she’s getting blasted all across the news and blogosphere.
Ok, I admit that what she said sounds a little off, but sometimes when you are put on the spot you have to say the first thing that comes to mind without thinking about how it sounds. Ask President Bush.
Here’s what someone else said about the situation:
“While it’s easy to laugh at Upton, I’d submit that she’s practicing the same craft that’s used by US business leaders and politicians every day: that of saying a whole bunch of meaningless stuff to try to hide the fact that a statement is wrong, incoherent, or nonexistent. And that the only reason that we’re laughing at Upton is because she doesn’t have the years of practice that her (mostly male) elders use to hide their ignorance and dishonesty.” [Source]
You have 3 seconds, how would you answer the question?
Well I’m from the Caribbean and not America but If they replaced the place then I’ll probably mention education on Geography lol str8 of the top of my head! You can tell she was taught how to answer questions not relating to something as dumb as that 1. I won’t laugh at her at all, but she should’ve known making a mistake up there woudv’e cause this.