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Originally Posted by adidasss
maybe most people can't say much about washingston because there's not much to say, unlike with london, or for example new york, i'm sure most people know a lot more about new york than they do about washington.
and asking between which states washington is situated is like asking you in which county ( or other adminstrative unit that exists in england) london is situated. noone cares, we only look at the country as a hole, and most people know a hellova lot about the states.
that being said, i think it's very hypocritical of anyone to call the yanks stupid or ignorant. most nations on a whole are stupid and ignorant simply because the majority of the the people in this world are not very educated and are primarely focused on their own lives and how to get by, rather than knowing in which state washington is.
but you do suck in geography, as has been demostrated on this forum ( i'll never forget angie's statement that Cambodia is in Africa )...you should learn that shit in elemetary school.
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Aye, some good points made... however, there is a lot to be said about Washington D.C., you saying that alone shows an ignorance (not stupidity, no, I can't even pronounce where you are from) that is commonplace in everyone at some point. For example with D.C. - it is the place that most modern philosophy of government was written and conceived (no, I'm not talking about the Bush administration, by modern I mean in the last 100 years) and these written ideas have been adopted world over - probably even in your own government. It is a place where much of the liberties everyone in the world enjoys were born. Once again- since apparently I have to point this out to avoid a ****storm - I know that other countries have made monumental contributions, too - however, we are talking about D.C. right now.
Once again, you are seeing a very, very small sect of Americans on this forum - most of the people on here are between 13-18, isn't angie like 14? It's easy to point out ignorance because when someone makes a mistake - it's quite apparent, however - when someone is correct about something - one doesn't even notice because it is in our realm of knowledge. It is suffice to say we all are taking for our own educations for granted.
Also geography is pretty sketchy subject to judge an American on - we have a lot more country to go over in our schools - America is the 3rd largest country, in landmass, in the world (second to Russia and Canada), England is pretty small - now I've never been to an English school for educational purposes, so I'm not sure how the teaching of geography is run there - but we try to cover our whole nation... and a logical assumption would suggest that the English can cover the whole of their nation, before we can cover the whole of ours. That being said, you get to move on to other countries a lot quicker than we do.
I've also heard that "Americans suck at learning languages" - this is false. The people on the European Continent have more of a reason to learn several languages than we do - you can drive for 4 hours and be in a whole other country, the majority of americans cannot drive 4 hours and even be out of their state!
Believe you me - if I could drive a few hours and be in Germany, I would be ecstatic! If I lived in England and could travel an hour or two to f*cking Ireland or Scotland or Wales... man I would be in heaven. You have the wonderful ability to see these historically and culturally rich places at a relatively cheap price in a short time.... I get to go to... Nebraska
ooo envy. It will cost me 3000 dollars for a round trip ticket to France.
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