Nonono, find Italy on a map, not Rome.
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Americans will do the same for the US but then with the entire globe and it won't be because of conquest or historical reasons, it will just be because they don't know where the US is on a globe or what a globe is, for that matter.
As an American who loves history and geography
... all I can say is that you are 100% correct about my countrymen
I really don't want to be a dick about it
I think most Americans are victims of it's governments over the past decades since, say, Reagan. Education has been sabotaged to hell and back, especially by Republicans, everything has been made about money for the rich and fuck the poor. Of course you're going to end up with a very low educated population
I don't know, this is a very old problem. As the WW1-era joke goes, "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
I think it more pertinently relates to the strong obsession with knowing our internal divisions (the States), the size of the country itself, and, to a certain degree, the somewhat self-absorbed nature of American culture. Not in the strictly speaking selfishness sense, which is more recent, but in the looser "America is basically 99% of the world, and I guess there are furriners out there too?", which dates back to the 19th century at least. We have few 'traditional' enemies, and only two neighbors by land, so learning foreign affairs has not been traditionally important in American schooling. Also, STEMlords have always ruled public American discourse on education and economics 😔
Our education system, despite having many highs and lows, averages to a... well, pretty average standard of education amongst developed countries, though deeply below-average in cost-efficacy. It definitely has gone downhill the past 40 years, though, relative to other countries.
Explanation: The dots actually outline the extent of the Roman Empire.
@PugJesus Following that logic Texans would put dots on every oil field on earth.
we definitely should investigate your hypothesis
@CheesyFox I had that happen when I was in Carlsbad New Mexico, which on the west part of the Permian Basin Oil field (Texas has the eastern side) . I was in the hotel elevator and an oilfield worker got on and said 'what brings you to Texas'. That's not the first time I've had a Texan say that to me in various places. Texas is wherever they are, apparently.
What i had in mind is to ask a Texan to point out a random place on the map and then go check whether it is an oilfield :D