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I'm pretty certain that all of us American posters have read or heard about many non-US citizens generalizing the majority of us as being geographically ignorant of the foreign world. As a result of this I'd like to ask you all this: How bad is ignorance in the general area where you all reside? Are the people with whom you generally socialize or reside near aware of the world outside of them?
Here in Kansas City they seem to think we New Englanders are New Yorkers. About the only part of New England that even resembles New York City is Fairfield County in Connecticut.
Most people anywhere in world struggle w/basic reading/counting/thinking, no matter how allegedly well educated...
Am more astonished by how little knowledge of "economic geography" (source of local economy, where in region are high-income jobs/valuable cos. based, etc) exists....really amused when those who claim to have "traveled" all over world have a clueless tourist perspective on various regions....
Perhaps many would be better served by learning relevant economic geography, rather than capitals/tourist attractions in Podunk or various economically irrelevant major population centers....
I personally believe that most U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps. And I believe that our education such as the South Africa and the Iraq everywhere like such as and I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., or should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so that we will be able to build up our future for our children.
Well, in central Texas, I have heard on numerous occasions from adults that work with students in the classroom that Alaska was off the coast of California. I was incredulous and responded, "Where in the world did you get that idea?" The answer was, "It shows it to be that way on the maps I've seen." By golly, it does.
-It's bad I tell you- I live in Chicago, and most Chicagoans think it's the state capital
Oh come on, we all know where the money is earned and the important decisions made, and it's not in Springfield
I'm going to be completely honest, I know NYC, Boston, Chicago, San Fran and Los Angeles. I've had the personal misfortune of having had to have spent a lot of time in Texas, so I suppose one could say I also know that... place. Other than that, I have at best only a very vague conception of the United States. Everything outside of NYC, Chicago or LA is a fuzzy haze to me.
Although I'd certainly never stereotype the places themselves, I really have seen most of the United States only from a plane.
Worldwide I've developed a very keen sense of geography, and in both NYC, Chicago and LA my neighbors are downright keen on their geography. There's so much multicultural diversity where I live that I'm expecting the ACLU to sue more white people into moving into the area.
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