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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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