Unfortunately, an app like that would probably do the only sane thing, and cut oneself off from the internet. The only way to be sure.
That said, this is rather low on the totem pole of things people are ignorant about that I worry about. Not knowing about the trade embargo between the US and Cuba does require ignoring some history lessons, but it's not completely common knowledge. I don't even know if the situation with Cuba is taught much in schools to begin with, and it requires some actual insight into world affairs that maybe some people don't actually study.
Really, I'm more concerned about people who don't know the types of things that, say, a person taking a citizenship test for the US would be expected to know. While it seems kind of silly that people wouldn't know about the trade embargo with countries like Cuba, it worries me much less than the people who don't understand, for example, the concept of the Bill of Rights or the protections in the First Amendment.
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Date: 2010-06-09 07:04 pm (UTC)That said, this is rather low on the totem pole of things people are ignorant about that I worry about. Not knowing about the trade embargo between the US and Cuba does require ignoring some history lessons, but it's not completely common knowledge. I don't even know if the situation with Cuba is taught much in schools to begin with, and it requires some actual insight into world affairs that maybe some people don't actually study.
Really, I'm more concerned about people who don't know the types of things that, say, a person taking a citizenship test for the US would be expected to know. While it seems kind of silly that people wouldn't know about the trade embargo with countries like Cuba, it worries me much less than the people who don't understand, for example, the concept of the Bill of Rights or the protections in the First Amendment.