Even More Painful When Written Down

Miss Teen South Carolina Lauren Upton's response, when asked why one-fifth of Americans are unable to locate the United States on a map in the Miss Teen America contest in August:

"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and Iraq and everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for us."