Help Me Understand

[El Diablo]

jasper,

"My point is that regardless of what you are taught in school you should make a point of having some basic amount of knowledge outside of your freaking city, state, or country."

What is the capital of the Henan Province?
What is the capital of Uttar Pradesh?

China and India are far more significant to the world than Canada, which in all reality is less significant than many US states.

"There is a big beautiful amazing world out there that IMO many Americans miss out on because they can't seem to get the fact that the good old USA isn't the only place of relevence on the freaking planet."

I agree with this statement. But Canada is pretty much completely irrelevant to anything that matters in the world. It makes little sense to learn anything about Canada when there is a world full of culturally, politically, and economically significant stuff out there to learn about.

"but mostly because I have made a point of trying to be informed about things outside of the country I live in."

Again, I agree. But do you spend a lot of effort getting informed about things that are pretty much insignificant? I doubt it. Are you well informed about Lichtenstein? That's pretty much the same reason Americans aren't informed about Canada.