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PBinAB's avatar

The University of British Columbia is not located in Alberta. I know you Yankees have trouble with geography, but Calgary isn't in British Columbia.

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Jeff Childers's avatar

🤦‍♂️ fixed

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sunsandwind's avatar

Common mistake given the .ca in the address. UBC is in British Columbia, Canada. It's location almost guarantees her views are widely held.

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Debra's avatar

That's why it is no longer called the West Coast but the Worst Coast. Think BC, Washington, Oregon, California. I tend to think it is something in the water of the Pacific or something to do with what is emitting from the Cascadia Fault Line.

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Roger Beal's avatar

Is something leaking out of communist China and being carried eastward by prevailing ocean currents?

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sunsandwind's avatar

Encouraged by our Prime Minister and the BC government.

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Julie Young's avatar

Debra, “Worst Coast” is an excellent description of. We have roots and family ties to rural (southern) Oregon and I always thought we’d retire there. But, now, the political vibes flowing from Portland make it far less appealing.

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Jaye's avatar

I am from BC. I refer to it as the Left coast

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Frieda Spyder's avatar

It's, "within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples"

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sunsandwind's avatar

I'm sure UBC will be giving the land back very soon.

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sunsandwind's avatar

Great link.

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Jim Moore's avatar

Oh, of course. Duh! Calgary is just outside Jerusalem, right? I sometimes confuse it with cavalry also, so…

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Barbara's avatar

Right!😂

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Tom's avatar

The Calvary is coming, and will set you right . . .

If the cavalry reaches you first, may the Calvary deliver you.

Calgary is for donuts, hockey, and fries smothered in gravy.

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MacGuffin's avatar

It's the overconfidence that grates. 'Calgary, British Columbia' - how can that sound 100% correct to anyone in North America?

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JacquelineP's avatar

There are plenty of American cities that I wouldn’t know the State where they’re located. I’m not offended. I AM embarrassed that Karen is a prof at a top Canadian university.

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Peter Schott's avatar

You make assumptions about our knowledge of geography if we don't have the maps app open. :) (And I was _never_ good at geography, even in school. I always claimed that is why we had atlases and maps. :D )

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Beckadee's avatar

I learned geography and reading a map on family camping trips- one of those trips being to Calgary [Calgary Stampede Rodeo] and Lake Louise. Highly recommend. Of course a long time ago with an atlas.

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MacGuffin's avatar

Peter? Are you the transgendered version of that Miss South Carolina beauty contestant from years ago?

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Beckadee's avatar

I will admit I didn't catch it at first, even with the good fortune of having been to BC, AB, SK, ON , MB and NB. I blame it on my lack of caffeine. I was in Cranberry Portage MB fishing in the clear lakes for those good eating walleye and muskie. Jumped in Lake of the Woods, Sioux Narrows ON and that water so cold I could barely dog paddle out to get in a hot shower. 50 years ago. And twenty years ago the drive from Whistler back to Vancouver revealed stunning beauty. Thank God for a farmer Dad who loved to fish or this hick from Alabama wouldn't know geography.

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Dr Tara Slatton's avatar

Because Americans who don’t live near the border know nothing about Canadian geography and those who live near the border are probably only familiar with the area near where they live.

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Peter Schott's avatar

Now that's just not true. We know it as that great white mass of land north of America. It's always cold and there are moose drinking maple syrup while playing hockey. :D

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Help Needed in KS's avatar

Moose play lacrosse; beavers play hockey.

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Mark Oshinskie's avatar

And the housing is very bland.

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Joseph Kaplan's avatar

Which make them no different than the 90% who live in America and can’t give directions to their own home.

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Roger Beal's avatar

... And the roughly 30% who neither register nor vote in any elections.

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

I gave someone directions once using the compass point, N,S, E, W. They had zero ability to comprehend the NW corner of the Plaza. Unbelievable.

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Mrs. Mantle's avatar

Many Americans don’t know their own geography. I know New Yorkers who think Texas is on the West Coast. Seriously. Adults with good jobs.

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YYR's avatar

I think that is the bizarre self-centrism unique to New Yorkers.

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MacGuffin's avatar

As I said, it's the overconfidence that grates, as much as the ignorance. 'Oh Dublin, you say? Is that in the northern part of England or the southern part?'

Oh, if only there was a way to quickly look things up when there is a niggling doubt about something!

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Dr Tara Slatton's avatar

Just being honest unless we are at war with a country their geography simply doesn’t matter to us and when we are at war it only vaguely matters. Personally I’m familiar with Canada only because I live close to Canada. I know Jack all about Mexican geography and don’t care enough to learn about it. So be glad that most Americans are unfamiliar because the moment Americans start to care you can assume you are about to be liberated.

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Roger Beal's avatar

BOOM. It's Color Revolution time - here come Victoria Nudelman and Katherine Maher.

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Tom's avatar

"Pay no attention to Barry's arm going up the back of Joe's suit as he walks him off stage."

He was TOLD that one day he would be a "real boy."

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RunningLogic's avatar

I agree that many people are geographically illiterate but that includes people outside of the US too. I’ve known lots of non Americans who had trouble locating other countries or foreign cities on a map. I’m kind of an anomaly, I have always been a map lover and interested in geography (my kids are too). I was also fortunate to have had a third grade teacher who taught us the names of the Canadian provinces and so I’ve known their names and locations since I was a child. But lots of people don’t seem to know or care about other parts of the world. If it doesn’t affect them, why bother to learn about it? This seems to be the prevailing attitude.

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daverkb's avatar

Things like grammar, geography, and so on ... can be argued to be 'nonessential' like certain businesses were during the height of the C19 terrorism campaign. Although not clearly defined these days, there once was in America a standard education deemed to be the bare essential for getting along in life, being able to communicate and understand things on a basic level. 'They' threw this all out and now look where we are.

The Empire of Lies may as well be called The Stupid Empire. And that is how I think the rest of the non-Western World Monstrosity views us ... at least the thinking portion.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yes things have certainly gone downhill as far as expectations and general knowledge 😕

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YYR's avatar

There is no "niggling," Mac, so no need to look it up.

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Tom's avatar

Here's the problem.

Did you just say niggling?

"RACIST!!1!"

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Help Needed in KS's avatar

Sad, but true.

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MacGuffin's avatar

Sorry, but no. It's like meeting someone who needs to look up the years of World War II.

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Roger Beal's avatar

If you meet many < 20 y/o kids, you first have to tell them what WW2 was.

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CK's avatar

Lol, you’re kidding. I’d bet over 50% of people under 30 would not even know the decade, they’d have zero clue.

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MacGuffin's avatar

Is that a clever joke?

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Dr Tara Slatton's avatar

Something that most Americans would also have to look up.

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Jackie J's avatar

And you know every state in Mexico?

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LMWC's avatar

I thought of that immediately, but since I am a Yank and not totally familiar with Canadian cities, I thought maybe there was also a Calgary, BC.

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Tom's avatar

I note in passing that perhaps "University" should always appear in sarcastic quotes from now on.

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CaliforniaLost's avatar

Yankees?

Those used to be fighting words to gentlemen from the South! 🤣

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YYR's avatar

It's all just 'Murica and Not 'Murica Yet to us.🤷‍♂️

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