no, many americans are quite lazy mentally.
they can tell you the first and last names of the top 12 in American idol, but can't find iraq on a map.
Well, that used to be the case but I think most can figure out where Iraq is.
I work with an American and it's his first time overseas and he thought England was a country and that Tony Blaire had been the prime minister of England....
When I told him that he had been the prime minister of the United Kingdom, he said: I had always wondered what that was.