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Old 07-10-2009, 09:13 AM
 
Location: Albuquerque
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What makes you think all Americans know where Texas is? Really, I am serious.
I sure don't think that.

I was watching the Daily Show last week and they were asking people how many stars were on the US flag. I'm sure that the tape was edited, but they had a half dozen ( native English speakers ) who didn't know.
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Old 07-10-2009, 10:30 AM
 
Location: Where I live.
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I think it all boils down to the sorry state of schools these days. I did have a person ask me at the old Greyhound depot downtown "are we still in the United States?" (Ironically I wish we weren't these days...maybe if Texas seceeds New Mexico can join them? Become New Texas or Tex Mex? But that's another topic thread all together).

Does anyone recall the flap when a local dual-language grade school put up posters in Spanish, and the Spanish they wrote on those posters for classrooms was wrong!?!? My goodness...and this is New Mexico fer cryin' out loud! Good job, APS!
I have to laugh every time I see the outside entrance doors at JC Penney's...."halar" (pull).........that should be "jalar", but it's spelled with an h on every JCP door I've seen, whether TX or NM...! So now people get to be semi-literate in two languages!

If TX secedes, I'm going home.
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Old 07-10-2009, 11:26 AM
 
Location: Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne
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This knife cuts both ways.

I have met so many people who think that New York is only a city (or that NY state is perhaps a little fringe around the city) than I can count. I told my boss that I would be driving from NYC to Buffalo and that it would take all day, longer than driving from Albuquerque to Denver and he thought I was making a joke.

Of those people who do know that New York is a state, A surprising number of people seem to think that New Jersey is not a state, but rather the capital of New York State.


The big thing I have to explain to people from 'far away' is not that New Mexico is part of America, but rather that it is not always hot, has no real significant amount of palms (really no more so than say, the Mid-Atlantic region) and that there is no coastline.


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Old 07-10-2009, 05:36 PM
 
Location: Oregon
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Default The definitive answer

As the 2007 Miss Teen USA said (believe it or not), the reason many Americans can't locate the U.S.A. on a map is because "some people out there in our nation don't have maps..."

Sounds logical to me


YouTube - Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina answers a question
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Old 07-11-2009, 12:36 PM
 
Location: Keonsha, Wisconsin
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Default why do so many people think New Mexico is part of Mexico

Maybe because they weren't paying attention in their geography class? This was one of my favorites in elementary school.
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Old 07-11-2009, 01:04 PM
 
Location: Metromess
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Having always loved to look at maps, I find it incomprehensible. Some people are, shall we say, extremely geographically challenged.
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Old 07-11-2009, 01:23 PM
 
Location: in here, out there
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Yesterday I wore a shirt for New Mexico State University and people in my English class (Honors English 12) didn't realize New Mexico is a state.
It says right on the shirt that it's a state.
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Old 07-11-2009, 01:27 PM
 
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I seem to recall some voting ballots or instructions about two years ago in which the Spanish portions improperly phrased...
Rich


IMHO that is very disrespectful to all people of Hispanic heritage. Fer cryin' out loud, New Mexico used to be "northern Chihuahua" before the war. If we're gonna be bilingual, let's do it right and proper!
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Old 07-11-2009, 01:28 PM
 
Location: Keonsha, Wisconsin
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Having always loved to look at maps, I find it incomprehensible. Some people are, shall we say, extremely geographically challenged.
Me too. Always wanted to look places up on the map. In fact, when the Iraq war began, all we heard was this thing called the green zone and the presidential palace, I just had to google it and see where it was. I don't understand why people do not show interest in wanting to know what or where some place is?
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Old 07-11-2009, 01:31 PM
 
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I have to laugh every time I see the outside entrance doors at JC Penney's...."halar" (pull).........that should be "jalar", but it's spelled with an h on every JCP door I've seen, whether TX or NM...!
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So now people get to be semi-literate in two languages!


That's so funny...and that's what I am, semi-literate in two languages!
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