In my experience, very few people have any idea what the UN actually is, or does.
I'd like to see some questions about whether people can identify the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, or the International Monetary Fund. For that matter I suspect that a majority wouldn't identify UNESCO and UNICEF as UN organizations without some prompting.
A lot of people seem to identify the UN with the Security Council, which does indeed suck. And it's not the only one to suck. But even so, I feel like a poll like this is more about the version of the UN that people see in movies, rather than anything at all about the organization.
I'd like to see some questions about whether people can identify the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, or the International Monetary Fund. For that matter I suspect that a majority wouldn't identify UNESCO and UNICEF as UN organizations without some prompting.
A lot of people seem to identify the UN with the Security Council, which does indeed suck. And it's not the only one to suck. But even so, I feel like a poll like this is more about the version of the UN that people see in movies, rather than anything at all about the organization.