alt Hacker NewsWhy are Americans in particular expected to know details about every country on Earth?
Do you think Canadians know all these facts about Brazil? Do Indians? Or Swedes? It's only Americans that are smugly called ignorant for not knowing about the entire world.
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alistairSH • today at 3:07 PM
Because the US almost always scores behind its peer nations when its citizens are quizzed on generic geography.
Not details, but at least having a basic notion of where countries are located. Everyone should be expected to know, for example, that Mexico and Spain are two different countries that are located in different continents. Yet it’s always people from the same country referring to one by the name of the other.
https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2015/10/22/why...