I'd go further. I'll bet that if you mentioned Gore and his stupid movie to many adult Americans who don't live in the hood you'd get a blank look too. A great percentage of Americans are stupendously ignorant about many things that should be common knowledge. Whether the knowledge (like Gore's movie) is worthless or not.
You nailed it!Yet they can tell you who the last five American Idol finalists are.
I had an interesting experience a few years ago subbing in a radical left wing alternative school.Posters all over the place of Che and Huey Newton and tons of propaganda disguised as”curriculum”
Yet I walked out of that school actually feeling better about this place than the other God forsaken high schools in my district.The students at least knew SOMETHING besides Jay-Z,Beyonce and the Raiders new running back.
If a kid quotes Chariman Mao,at least I can debate with him on the issues.Rather a kid do that than not know Mao Tse Tung from Yao Minh