I’ve seen multiple videos equivalent of Americans pointing where (country) is on the map, and there was an instance where the host asked the woman where the continent Africa is located (points to Asia) like WTF? That’s not even close at all.

I know there’s bias towards those types of videos since there are accusations of the host “handpicking” select strangers framing them as if they are representative of the US. But the truth is that their education system isn’t good as it lacks funding.

When you put it into perspective: how many Europeans can correctly locate & name countries adjacent to them within their own continent and globally? Is the education system within the EU that good or effective at teaching kids that subject?

  • guy@piefed.socialEnglish
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    11 days ago

    You can kind of think of the US like the EU

    Absolutely not. You can make a comparison with other federations like Germany or Switzerland maybe, but the EU is a very different political entity.

    Very different vibe between the two; very distinctly different accents, different mannerisms, different customs. They each have stereotypes about the other.

    This is true in all European countries as well, no matter how tiny.

    I’m not sure why you (seem to) feel that learning about other states is somehow “lesser” than learning about other countries

    See, this is what you seem to miss. We learn about other countries. We learn about yours as well, but not on a much deeper scale than where it is, its capitol and its political system. And well, it seems like some in Europe learn about your states as well, which is more than we do for other countries. I couldn’t name more than a couple of ‘states’ in my neighbouring countries and that I have learned as an adult.

    I don’t understand why you seem to think that size and population somehow would grant you extra interest. If that was the case India, Russia, Canada and China would all be more interesting than the US and we don’t give those extra attention.