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Re:Countries that have preoccupied Americans the most since ... by qwertay on Saturday December 22, 2018 @08:41AM (#18740518)
As an Australian I know the names of quite a few Chinese cities but I think I know a whole lot less about the country because of the language barrier and the fact that most of the websites I use are blocked in china so I don't meet the people online much.
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Re:Countries that have preoccupied Americans the most since ... by cromwellian on Saturday December 22, 2018 @08:59AM (#18740587)
Language barrier would prevent memory of a lot of these. Consider the Shaanxi province vs the Shanxi province.

It’s much harder to recall things you can’t spell in you vocabulary to break them down and where pronunciation is similar.

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