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We recently saw a couple of alarming episodes of Family Feud. This is a show in which two teams of five family members have to identify the most popular answers to questions provided by a survey of 100 people. When asked to name countries, these adult families provided the following answers: Amsterdam, London, Asia, and Africa. We also saw a recent article describing the efforts of the Uruguayan Beef Council to promote beef from Uruguay. When a number of American adults were asked if they would buy beef from Uruguay, many responded “What’s Uruguay?”

This doesn’t speak well for that state of global awareness on the part of the American public. Globalization is a fact. Clearly, our schools need to do more to instill global awareness in our young generation. The social science curriculum seems to be the best place to do this.