Re:Can You Locate Iran? Few Voters Can
by thoughtleader31 on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @12:05PM
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No, because Missouri is not a country. I'm always puzzled by this attitude that individual US states should have the same hierarchy in knowledge of the world as actual countries.
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US states are like Chinese provinces. We know about our states, they know about their provinces and we both know a little bit about the countries we have ties to. US and Europe and the Americas, China and East Asia/pac rim and a bit of Africa.
Basically, smaller countries study more about their surroundings more and bigger countries have more internal stuff to learn.
Re:Can You Locate Iran? Few Voters Can
by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @12:28PM
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A lot of Americans have trouble locating Nebraska or Kansas on a map. I’m sure a lot of Chinese might get confused about where Shanxi is, especially since many of them have never left their own counties before.