This map of the United States, purportedly labeled by an Aussie.
Saw this and thought of you folks.
Ken
pretty funny thanks Ken, they done better than I would have :winkextra:
Have driven through 44 of the fifty states. Good times, great memories.!! :wavemulticolor:
I do find it kind of ironic to have Americans accusing another nation of not knowing anything beyond it's own borders.
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Quote from: 'MobOfRoos' pid='33375' dateline='1383445093'I do find it kind of ironic to have Americans accusing another nation of not knowing anything beyond it's own borders.
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That map was probably filled in by an American anyway :laugh2:
That map was probably filled in by an American anyway.
Due to the attempted teaching in all of our schools, there's no doubt in my mind that an American drew that map.
Quote from: 'MobOfRoos' pid='33375' dateline='1383445093'I do find it kind of ironic to have Americans accusing another nation of not knowing anything beyond it's own borders.
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Yes.
Its a few years ago now, but I worked for an American company setting up in Australia.
I was amazed at how little the adventurous, talented, qualified, selected Americans who came to Australia to help estsblish the new company knew about anything outside of America.
It was incredibly bad that "the cream of the crop" had no idea about anything outside of US borders.
Quote from: 'MobOfRoos' pid='33375' dateline='1383445093'I do find it kind of ironic to have Americans accusing another nation of not knowing anything beyond it's own borders.
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Yes.
Its a few years ago now, but I worked for an American company setting up in Australia.
I was amazed at how little the adventurous, talented, qualified, selected Americans who came to Australia to help estsblish the new company knew about anything outside of America.
It was incredibly bad that "the cream of the crop" had no idea about anything outside of US borders.
Quote from: 'Ozcoins' pid='33401' dateline='1383472057'It was incredibly bad that "the cream of the crop" had no idea about anything outside of US borders.
There are a variety of reasons for that.
Most of them have to do with supreme arrogance, at every level from the top down. This is a nation which believes at its most fundamental core in its own overwhelming superiority in everything. By which measure everything and everyone else is inferior.
There are so many examples that highlight this. The NSA wiretapping. The post-9/11 paranoia and warmongering. The way only American interests and lives count, all others being irrelevant
(as, for example, in the Nairobi Embassy bombing). And even at a trivial level the way weather maps don't show Canada and Mexico. And of course who else has
"World Series" sporting events with no other competing nations?
There is much to admire about the US. Its ignorance and parochialism are not among them.