Chris' map of Southeast Asia isn't too bad... the most annoying part is that he called the South China Sea the "South Korea Sea." Not only is there no such thing as the South Korea Sea, but Korea isn't even on the map! Maybe the term South China Sea threw him; Korea is surrounded by the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea, and the Yellow Sea. I don't know...
He also appears to have put a star to mark Kuala Lampur, the capital of Malaysia. That kind of irritates me, as Kuala Lampur is actually further south. So far south that it's off the map. I suppose I should be happy he's at least aware that the capital is in peninsular Malaysia... assuming he wasn't trying to mark Singapore or something. Knowing Chris' sloppy geography and lack of knowledge about foreign cultures, he might have been just as likely to think it was Jeddah or Samarqand!
Chris also didn't mark Phnom Penh as the capital of Cambodia. Oddly enough, he also appears to have put an accent mark over it, perhaps under the mistaken notion that it was a Spanish word or something. At least he put it in the right place. He also seems to be unaware that the 17th parallel marked the boundary between North Vietnam and South Vietnam...
I can't say I'm really surprised though. I mean, I remember being taught that people thought the Earth was flat until Columbus discovered America when I was very little. And I distinctly remember my 4th grade teacher teaching us that High Pressure systems are when the pressure drops and Low Pressure systems are when it rises. Dead fucking serious.
Yeah. One thing I hate about the public school system is how much they focus on mythologizing history, repeating the same bunch of cherished legends without giving them any critical examination. The folk worship of Columbus in America, in part, goes back to anti-British sentiments. That's why America adopted Columbus as the "discoverer of America" rather than John Cabot. That and the fact that both Italian American, Spanish American and Catholic groups were able to point to him as a symbol that they were here from the beginning.
If it makes you feel any better, I did a presentation on Greek mythology in one of my high school classes, and when I referenced the myth of Zeus burying Typhon beneath Mount Etna, my teacher complained that the Greeks couldn't have known about Sicily because it's in Italy. Yeah, like the Greeks never travelled beyond the borders of modern Greece. Guess it would have blown her mind to know that everything from Alexandria to Marseille had been founded by the Greeks, and that there were Hellenistic kingdoms as far afield as Bactria and India by about 200 BCE. And that they were Buddhists! LOL
Mainstreaming is a social thing. Chris didn't do the same work as the other kids.
Mainstreaming definitely should have been a social thing, and neither Chris nor his parents took advantage of it. Its hard to say whether Chris wasn't ready for regular ed classes, or whether the teachers weren't actually treating him like a real student. Honestly, Chris may be willfully ignorant, but he can string together sentences, follow directions and read. Granted he's none too bright, but I wonder if teachers had actually graded him realistically and pressured him to do the assignments in question, perhaps he might have done better in school and life. I think he was more capable of work than we give him credit for.
Chris' parents seemed to believe that him getting into regular classes was the only path to success, without realizing that Chris' biggest problem was communicating and interacting with other human beings. Sure, they paid his "gal pals" to talk to him, but what he really needed was a slice of every day life. He needed failure and disappointment, things he was carefully shielded from, because we all learn from these things. Except Chris. Just look at how he turned out. He has absolutely no confidence, and more importantly, no coping skills. Every minor inconvenience or difficulty he experiences turns into a grand amount of stress. He just... sorta... collapses into slumber.
Actually... I'm quite surprised at Chris's choices. If I did not knew it, I would have thought that quiz was made by any mildly conservative European.
I...honestly can't find any moral faults in Chris's choices, expect abusing the hell out of number 5.
I'm not entirely surprised by Chris' choices, but only because anyone who reads the CWCki will get a sense of why Chris would believe this stuff. What I find interesting is that he spouts certain stereotypically Conservative points while displaying some very strong Liberal impulses. I suspect part of it is environmental. He grew up in a mostly white suburban area, raised by older parents. That tends to be a recipe for Conservatism, even at a young age, and as someone who is autistic (and, honestly, lazy) Chris was unlikely to ever rebel against his parents' lifestyle. On the other hand, he is also young, idealistic and naive. All recipes for Liberalism. He's unlikely to even see the contradictions in his views.
I DO think it's funny that someone who is living off welfare today would have been so oblivious back then. Of course, I also think its unsurprising that he is against affirmative action for blacks, Latinos, and women... despite dressing like a woman and trying to write papers in Spanish.
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