Even native speakers of English need to learn English. A funny video of 18-year old Miss South Carolina Teen answering a question at a Miss Teen USA pageant. "Like such as and..."

Q: Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the United States on a world map. Why do you think this is?

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

What poise! What confidence! What incoherence! YouTubers are having a field day with this one. Here's one of the funnier parodies.

The fact that 1/5 of Americans can't locate the US on a world map is, well, not all that surprising; the possibility that it's because many Americans don't have maps may be a serious problem. So some folks actually started a blog just for maps, all sorts of maps, at MapsforUs.org ("The children of America need maps"), where Miss South Carolina is the unacknowledged spokesperson. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.