Abstract
Americans frequently tell themselves and are told by others that we are a parochial lot, ignorant of world geography, people and events. This self-definition of parochialism is reinforced by the periodic release of the results of public opinion surveys showing that a large proportion of the population is ignorant of some international fact. A typical case is a Gallup survey of 10,820 18to 25-year olds in ten countries conducted for the National Geographic Society in the spring of 1988. It found that:
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