Americans and their knowledge about Europe

Tobodai, are you in Ethiopia? And btw, China includes both PRC and ROC. I agree with you that ROC is now trying to fill up the history with propaganda.

Then again, who's history isn't filled with propaganda? Its only when you go to college level history do you have the taste of the real thing. You are forced to do your own research. You get credit for using more than 10 sources and more if you can use sources of different languages etc.

Seriously, I think the people in the US need to take better geography courses. But then again, I went to school in Singapore where they forced us to take really hard Geography classes and the people still came out pretty ignorant. What do you think? I think it has more to do with interest. You tend to know more about geography and history if you're on this forum.

Well, I'm American....this discussion, however, does not offend me...its quite true

It almost made me cry yesterday when a fellow student tried to tell me that the slavic bosians who were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire wanted to join with the other balkan slavs and ally with SIBERIA...not serbia....this person was quite convinced...

About a year ago there was a poll on one of the major news networks, cnn i think, where they asked americans random geogrpahy questions. Around 30% could locate the last survivor show location on a world map, but only 12% could locate the U.S. This whole business makes me ill...to undertsnad history, news, or the weather you need to know geograhy. Personlly, i think U.S schools put too much emphasis on reading and math,; they neglect history, geography and langauge.

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Never take anything those fools say seriously again. Ever. I mean it. If you do, I'll somehow reach through my monitor and smack you, though the chances of us being on at the same time are slim.

We can also add "Stereotypical" and "Racist" to the list for them, as well, concerning the German remark.