Help Me Understand

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It's amazing how much Americans overestimate their country's importance in the world. I'm not even going to attempt the fool's errand of convincing any Americans otherwise, but: our planet is a big [censored] place.

[cardsharkk04]

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It's amazing how much Americans overestimate their country's importance in the world. I'm not even going to attempt the fool's errand of convincing any Americans otherwise, but: our planet is a big [censored] place.

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so who is more important?

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Most of the geography stuff I know I just remember from elem. school, I don't remember us covering the canadian provinces. I'm pretty sure if I had a list of the provinces and had to fill them in on a map of Canada I'd do OK.

Also, have you considered that maybe you guys aren't pronouncing it correctly to begin with?

[The DaveR]

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It's amazing how much Americans overestimate their country's importance in the world. I'm not even going to attempt the fool's errand of convincing any Americans otherwise, but: our planet is a big [censored] place.

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That might be true, but it still doesn't mean that anyone should give a flying [censored] about a town with less than 200,000 people.

[Q8offsuit]

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That's a very valid point. However, I get no coverage of European TV, and I know more about European geography, history, culture, sports, etc than the average person does.


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So do a lot of Americans. We know much more about Europe than Canada, on average. It's more important historically, and also much more interesting.

However, I still wouldn't be able to name province / states in any Euro country.

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Don't you think it's different naming provinces in Canada compared to provinces/states in some random European country. The provinces are huge and they are right there bordering your country. One of the guys in my fantasy baseball league lives in Seattle so he knows where Vancouver is, but he doesn't know what province Edmonton and Calgary are in. That boggles my mind.

North America has 3 countries. (not including Greenland) [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img], and Canada has a few HUGE provinces.

I can understand someone living in El Paso not knowing where Winnipeg is, but when high school students in Minneapolis, Seattle, etc. can't name provinces that border them that is truly pathetic.

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You think North America only has 3 countries and you're questioning anyone's intelligence? Try again, sport.

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jasper, that is a freakin sweet avatar...

[Jasper109]

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That's a very valid point. However, I get no coverage of European TV, and I know more about European geography, history, culture, sports, etc than the average person does.


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So do a lot of Americans. We know much more about Europe than Canada, on average. It's more important historically, and also much more interesting.

However, I still wouldn't be able to name province / states in any Euro country.

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Don't you think it's different naming provinces in Canada compared to provinces/states in some random European country. The provinces are huge and they are right there bordering your country. One of the guys in my fantasy baseball league lives in Seattle so he knows where Vancouver is, but he doesn't know what province Edmonton and Calgary are in. That boggles my mind.

North America has 3 countries. (not including Greenland) [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img], and Canada has a few HUGE provinces.

I can understand someone living in El Paso not knowing where Winnipeg is, but when high school students in Minneapolis, Seattle, etc. can't name provinces that border them that is truly pathetic.

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You think North America only has 3 countries and you're questioning anyone's intelligence? Try again, sport.

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I stand corrected. I've always considered Central America to be a separate geographical entity, but you are right it's part of North America.

[Jasper109]

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jasper, that is a freakin sweet avatar...

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Thanks. I was going to use Steven Harper, but I'm only starting to despise him, and nobody really gives a [censored] about him and the country he "leads"

[nath]

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wtf is with all the ripping on Iowa latly, if you want ignorance you have to look further south then Iowa. Iowa's education system is actualy WAY better then the USA as a hole, Iowa is ranked 3rd for act scores and #1 on sat scores.


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I loled.

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damn i fast forwarded through this thread just to see if anyone else had made the joke

FWIW it should look like this:

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wtf is with all the ripping on Iowa latly, if you want ignorance you have to look further south then Iowa. Iowa's education system is actualy WAY better then the USA as a hole

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obv

[TiK]

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Thanks. I was going to use Steven Harper, but I'm only starting to despise him, and nobody really gives a [censored] about him and the country he "leads"

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Who the hell is Steven Harper? And which unimportant turd smear of a country does he lead?