I relost faith in humanity today (1 Viewer)

[Ahsoka]

I was flying from Iceland to the northeast US. We passed Greenland and you could see Greenland our the window, the snow and mountains. Then I hear the lady in front of me go “oh, that must be Alaska or something”. I’ll circle Alaska and the path from Iceland to the northeast US on a map, and you guys can make the decision of whether we might have seen Alaska or not

 

[StirFriedPanda]

Wow, we've got Ahsoka putting circles on the map. She really has lost faith in us knowing even basic geography. That lady was definitely American to be that stupid.

 

[athenaaa]

Good job random lady

 

[Ahsoka]

Wow, we've got Ahsoka putting circles on the map. She really has lost faith in us knowing even basic geography. That lady was definitely American to be that stupid.

Those are ovals, not circles

 

[StirFriedPanda]

Those are ovals, not circles

Agree to disagree. One is a zucchini and one is a cactus fruit.

 

[Harmony_Starz]

I mean greenland is not green

 

[Belgizen]

sometimes i wonder how people like this function in society

 

[dark_tranquility]

The IQ of this bird is underestimated

she extra dumb

 

[uran]

 

[Selfmate]

why would you ever had faith in humanity to begin with

 

[eclipsoul]

this reminds me of when u.s based twitter users would post maps of europe attempting to guess the countries and get like 0 right

 

[Ahsoka]

this reminds me of when u.s based twitter users would post maps of europe attempting to guess the countries and get like 0 right

I could get less than half, to the average American knowing the map of Europe is meaningless to their lives. But to get noting Is bad

 

[uran]

I could get less than half, to the average American knowing the map of Europe is meaningless to their lives. But to get noting Is bad

I wish and dont wish at the same time that our geography and cultural studies were just about finland
We had to learn the world map, all capitals of the world, us sates, draw all nordic countries maps out of memory and know bigger cities in china, russia and australia

 

[Ahsoka]

I wish and dont wish at the same time that our geography and cultural studies were just about finland
We had to learn the world map, all capitals of the world, us sates, draw all nordic countries maps out of memory and know bigger cities in china, russia and australia

We learned all the geography of all the world countries, all the world capitals, all the major water bodies, all the US states and their capitals, and a lot of the major world cities historically and in modern day (and some less major ones too). But it’s one thing to learn stuff like that and another to learn and retain it. I would hazard a guess that if I picked average European and asked them to label all the countries and capital cities in Africa or South America, a lot of them wouldn’t do a very good job. To an average European it’s less relevant generally than the geography of Europe. For an American, how does the placement of the Czech Republic in comparison to Slovenia influence their daily life? It doesn’t. So they forget it, despite learning about it in school too. I also can’t claim to know the geography of Africa as well either, I know some countries but some I’ve forgotten. That’s just how it is. Knowing the geography and cities and culture of the entire world would be cool to know, but it’s unlikely to happen if you aren’t a historian or a related job.
But I also don’t get why you had to learn the US states. To me that one is weird. But the rest is standard as far as what we had too or at least similar relative to where we live.

 

[uran]

We learned all the geography of all the world countries, all the world capitals, all the major water bodies, all the US states and their capitals, and a lot of the major world cities historically and in modern day (and some less major ones too). But it’s one thing to learn stuff like that and another to learn and retain it. I would hazard a guess that if I picked average European and asked them to label all the countries and capital cities in Africa or South America, a lot of them wouldn’t do a very good job. To an average European it’s less relevant generally than the geography of Europe. For an American, how does the placement of the Czech Republic in comparison to Slovenia influence their daily life? It doesn’t. So they forget it, despite learning about it in school too. I also can’t claim to know the geography of Africa as well either, I know some countries but some I’ve forgotten. That’s just how it is. Knowing the geography and cities and culture of the entire world would be cool to know, but it’s unlikely to happen if you aren’t a historian or a related job.
But I also don’t get why you had to learn the US states. To me that one is weird. But the rest is standard as far as what we had too or at least similar relative to where we live.

I dont know much about what is taught in us schools and mainly what ive heard is from memes so i basically lnow nothing
i dont know why we were made to memorize them. dont know if it was just my teachers doing or everyone else has to learn that since i have never talked about it irl and yeah i dont remember most of what i was taught back then and barely know what towns is included in the municipality i live in. which is why i have accepted my trait points were put in the visual category when i was made

 

[Ahsoka]

I dont know much about what is taught in us schools and mainly what ive heard is from memes so i basically lnow nothing
i dont know why we were made to memorize them. dont know if it was just my teachers doing or everyone else has to learn that since i have never talked about it irl and yeah i dont remember most of what i was taught back then and barely know what towns is included in the municipality i live in. which is why i have accepted my trait points were put in the visual category when i was made

Honestly it varies so much state to state though as for what kind of education you get. States make their own laws about what students learn, what standardized tests they may have (except for a few nation wide ones, none of which are required but can be taken), what you need to learn to pass middle school, graduate high school, what public colleges in the state can teach, ect ect. That’s what I learned about world geography, but that doesn’t mean someone in Hawaii will have been required to learn that also, though it’s likely all students learn at least a tiny bit about geography. Another example would be that in my state, we are required to take one American history class minimum and one world history class in high school to graduate. But the length and such doesn’t matter, I took 1 US history class about the US in the modern age (1900s to present day) that was only 2 months long and that was enough, I didn’t take any other US history classes. But not all states require World History in high school so there very well can be Americans who didn’t get the same type of education because of their states laws. So it really depends on the persons interests, states laws, what their teacher chooses to cover, ect.

 

[Moguri]

It has to be Alasak, it's the only US state coverd in ice after all

 

[Moguri]

I wish and dont wish at the same time that our geography and cultural studies were just about finland
We had to learn the world map, all capitals of the world, us sates, draw all nordic countries maps out of memory and know bigger cities in china, russia and australia

wow.. you must be a master of geography!!

 

[Ahsoka]

wow.. you must be a master of geography!!

Did you guys not learn at minimum all the countries and capitals of the world?

 

[StirFriedPanda]

Did you guys not learn at minimum all the countries and capitals of the world?

Not really, most other countries just really aren't that important. We let them be on the map so we don't have to hear them complain.