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@ DRMO: I found these figures (about halfway down the page)

http://www.caerphilly.gov.uk/thecoun...lities/faq.htm

Plus elsewhere states 25,000 Welsh speakers in The Argentine.

I stand corrected.
Thankyou Mr. Wikipedia.

TheBig3

On a completly side note, let me ask all of you, theres a lot of people that just bury their noses in books and know plenty about many things. I just wonder why the focus is on knowing the world?

I mean we never slammed Emily ****enson (Ma resident) for not getting out enough. I'll continue this fued, I just don't know why a lac of world knowledge is such a condemable thing.

To make the isolationists point, the euro's know whats aorund them, that happens to be ther world. I know what putine is, Im not a canadian expert.

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DontRunMeOver

Well, that figure of around 25,000 may be correct and the one from Wikipedia of 5,000 might be wrong... neither figure is anywhere near the number that speak Welsh in Wales though.

And for the record. I LOVE wikipedia.

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Big3, why argue? He's just trying to get a rise out of you. Jusy bandy about some good humoured teasing and all will be fine. Come on, the neck-tie comment I made? Comedy gold in Croatia AND America.

Anyhow. I have been to Croatia (as you see, adidasss, my knowledge does transcend trivial about your particular homeland, but isn't trivial knowledge the most fun?) and many a country outside of the US, and I've been surprised again and again how well we Americans have it, and how we still have our own problems to take care of. My goal was to be world-conscience ever since I was a dibbun though, so I can't say all Americans like that... neither could anybody, from ANY country say that all of their citizens are either.

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Maybe a lot of resentment towards America, is caused by us knowing more about you, than you do about us.
Our history and culture is ancient and you are (the U.S.) currently, the foremost nation on earth...and possibly that bothers us.


I don't know, maybe we expect you to take more notice of whats going on in the world more. Maybe it's the perception that average Americans don't seem to care.
I know that the Arab world feel that way towards you for sure.
Maybe we do to a lesser extent.

Disclaimer: the use of the words "us" and "you", are for hypothetical reasons only.

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DontRunMeOver

Maybe because it involves a lot of factual knowledge, so it seems a more direct way to gauge somebody's knowledge? I don't know, but maybe it has something to do with that.

Unless your lifestyle involves international travel and/or working with people from other places, it's not especially relevant to know a lot about the world. However, as an indicator of how knowledgable somebody is, that kind of knowledge has the potential to be impressive to people across a wider spectrum though because it's more factual and concrete than works of fiction, philosophy or economics. If somebody knows which languages are spoken in a certain country, what the capital city is etc. then those are accepted facts by which other people can gauge how much you know about the world and, as its hard for people to rote learn a whole lifetime of information without also understanding it to some extent, it also can indicate how much somebody actually understands about the world.

Perhaps a problem is that if you know a lot about economics, political theory or philosphy, then however knowledgable you are in that area people who hold very different views to you may still think you're an idiot.

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