meanwhile we laugh at Americans for not being able to tell where germany lies
Sure but that's only equivalent to an American knowing where Europe is, as a lot of US states are as large as a lot of European countries.
But they're still states. States are internal divisions and only meaningful within the US. From an outside perspective there are very few differences between states, nowhere close to the differences between different countries.
Similar to how we don't talk about states or other divisions of china, even though there are probably divisions with more people than half of Europe.
(some) Americans are so self-important when they mention states being the same size as other peoples' countries lmao. "Why should we have to point to Germany on a map if Germans can't even point to le bigger Montana?
"It's like, do they feel the same about knowing other big countries' internal divisions? Canadian provinces? Russian federal subjects? Brazilian states? Chinese provinces? Australian states? Cuz the average subdivision in all those countries is larger than the average US state.
And people usually know the most important ones, anyways (Cali, Texas, Florida, NY)
fair enough, it's just that learning all countries in North America is a lot easier than those in Europe
Not really, as a European I can tell you where all the countries in the north American continent are.
Canada, US, Mexico, Cuba and apparently a bunch more I forgot about.
This is really alien to me because I'm american and I've been able to point out Germany on a map since I was like, 10? Its a very distinctive shape and position on the map. Idk, maybe its just my brain.
the fuck is going on here
Fake ass Euro not comprehending small and weird borders
The only memorable ones are California, nevada, washington, texas, florida, and maine.
Washington and Maine are only memorable because of very easy locations, being in the top corners of the country.
It used to be that Prussians, Germans and Austrians would cut you for confusing them for one of the others.
Fucked up that I still don't know where Ohio is
It's in the top right corner right?
This post does actually manage to get it with one of the like 10 guesses
Those three from left to right are Illinois, Indiana, Ohio. I crave cereal is pennsylvania
Are you sure you want to know? Knowledge of Ohio can never be unlearned
You are correct
I was pretty good at maps in highschool but I forgot a lot of it and never got good at Africa. I have no trouble with the 50 states but I'm american so that tracks. I'm also decent at South America (central america is beyond me though), most of Europe, and Asia.
I used to be pretty bad at European countries, apart from the UK, Spain, France, Portugal, Germany, and Italy, until I started playing EU4. Good with most of the countries around the world now save for some of the ones in Central and western Africa, and a few of the smaller -stans, bit still only can label maybe half the US states.
To be honest, I would not be great at naming German states. I can get Brandenburg, Bavaria, and a couple others.
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