I dated a German girl (in Germany) that thought Wisconsin was a state in Alaska and winter year round. They are all over.....
Do you think America is the only place with these shortfalls?
I would imagine that a lot of countries have the same "issues".
Honestly, if you're in Germany, how can you expect her to have even heard of Wisconsin? It would be like asking you to find some obscure province in China on a map.
True. Stupid people come in all races, shapes, sexes, sizes, colors, and ethnicities.
Shame there has to be so many though. ):
It's your opinion and all that, but that's like me moving to Sweden and then complaining about the cold. It's kind of implied.
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Originally posted by: SpunkyJones
Originally posted by: mugs
Why did everyone think every country was where Australia is?
The map was labeled that way. When they asked where Iraq was, Australia was labeled Iraq.
Isn't that kind of retarded? Considering geography classes no longer exist, at least don't have names.
I assume you're referring to k-12 education. I can't refute this but I hope you're wrong. Is geography taught under some other subject? I had it in k-12 but when I took a course in college, there was a world of difference - much more involved than naming capitols and mountain ranges...Originally posted by: TehMac
Originally posted by: SpunkyJones
Originally posted by: mugs
Why did everyone think every country was where Australia is?
The map was labeled that way. When they asked where Iraq was, Australia was labeled Iraq.
Isn't that kind of retarded? Considering geography classes no longer exist, at least don't have names.
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Originally posted by: seemingly random
I assume you're referring to k-12 education. I can't refute this but I hope you're wrong. Is geography taught under some other subject? I had it in k-12 but when I took a course in college, there was a world of difference - much more involved than naming capitols and mountain ranges...Originally posted by: TehMac
Originally posted by: SpunkyJones
Originally posted by: mugs
Why did everyone think every country was where Australia is?
The map was labeled that way. When they asked where Iraq was, Australia was labeled Iraq.
Isn't that kind of retarded? Considering geography classes no longer exist, at least don't have names.
Depends entirely on the school district.
When I 1st came to America in Aug. '95, we were in Durham, NC.
I attended middle school(6th grade) there for 3 months and my family decided to come to Baltimore, MD (Nov. '95)
In the course of 3 months that I attended school in NC, I had a geography class in which we went over countries on different continents, their capitols, all the major rivers, mountains, their language, and other things. We started on the European continent and I had to leave the school because we moved.
I don't recall ever taking a geography class since I've been in Baltimore, MD.
I automatically assumed that maybe they teach it in elementary school here or something, but I wouldn't be surprised if they don't teach it at all.
I also took "world geography" as one of my electives in college.
We had 3 exams + a final. The teacher said anyone who has an 80% average or higher on all 3 exams may stand up and leave(meaning they don't have to take the final). I was one of only four people who stood up in the class of thirty something people(BTW, the other people who stood up were from Senegal, South Africa, and Barbados if that matters). My roommate had the same geography class/teacher but a different time period. He said he was the ONLY one that stood up in his class.
On every exam there was opportunity to get 35 extra bonus points (135/100).
I don't understand how people could not be getting a 95% average easily with the bonus points regardless of the 80% "low ball" limit that the teacher set.
I easily got 88, 104, and 114 on all the exams, which exempted me from having to take the cumulative final and studying any new material that we learned after the 3rd exam that would have been included in it.
The guy from Barbados was very smart. I don't think he ever got less than 130 on ANY of the exams. In fact, he even got a 135 perfect score on one of them! :Q
They always get the dumber ones in those interviews, there are funnier ones though. Rick Mercer did one a few years ago called Talking to Americans, its pretty funny but you know it can't all be true.
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It's more enjoyable to make fun of Americans, though. Don't worry, we're used to it, I just shrug it off.
What's wrong with gun ownership? I don't even own one yet I fully support the right for people to own them.
I guess I'm just not a controlling twit who thinks that all good ideas I have should become law, and all things which I don't use should be banned.
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