eh 33% of millennials graduate college sounds about right

Op, why don't you go to Russia and conduct a survey on how many of them know who Abraham Lincoln is or George Washington or other prominent figures in American history. People like to bash the American educational system but the truth is we tend to know more about world history than the world knows about American history. I agree our educational system is deeply flawed but really, we can't know everything about everything. Stalin and Lenin were long enough ago that they're not all that relevant anymore.

I was playing trivia with my Gen X sister (a surgeon, btw), and the question was, "who is entombed in the Red Square?"

She had no idea, and when I told her it was Lenin, she said, "why would John Lennon be buried in Russia?"

Sigh.

So it isn't just millennials. Some people are just the type who have knowledge that is three inches wide and two miles deep. I wouldn't judge too harshly for this.

Anonymous wrote:I'm a millennial and know who Lenin was. And Duran Duran, PP! Do I get a prize?

I know who Lenin was, because it was drummed into me since preschool Aside from that... why would you expect an average American know this? I know immigrants do, and I completely disagree with this. I don't know the political leaders of the Nicaraguan revolution (even though I should). I don't know all countries on the African continent. Why would an American-educated adult know the capital of freaking Azerbaijan? We're not machines; we can't be expected to know everything. So chill, it's really okay not to know much about Vladimir Ilyich. Although I do hate Millennials as much as OP does, just for different reasons!