the fuck is going on here
Fake ass Euro not comprehending small and weird borders
meanwhile we laugh at Americans for not being able to tell where germany lies
I’m American and I don’t know where Ohio or Germany is.
Also American. I know where Germany is because I’ve had buddies from Germany, which made it useful information. Ditto Romania, Nigeria, and South Korea. I will remember X country when there is something of personal significance about it and apparently not before.
I don’t know where Ohio is and will never learn, because there is nothing IN Ohio, and they know there’s nothing in Ohio because they’re still LYING ABOUT THE AIRPLANE.
…how?
It’s the chonky one in the middle.
To be fair most Germans know where America is.
Yes this one is honestly a bit apples to oranges-ish, I can kinda understand though because Germany is about the size of a single US state.
Though it’s very hard to fuck up western Europe if you ever looked at a world map. Western Europe only has a handful of countries.
Compared to a country of 50 or so states where only 3 have a memorable shape (California, Texas, Florida), one has a memorable location (Alaska) and NYC being a household name.
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 that much easier, there’s 23 countries not 3 lmao
Not really, as a European I can tell you where all the countries in the north American continent are.
all 3 of em? wow what an accomplishment
You’re forgetting 20 countries.
North America doesn’t end at Mexico, it ends at Panama, and it also includes the Caribbean.
it was pointed out already thank you
I don’t see that, maybe a de-federated post to my instance.
There’s a third? Oh bugger 😝
Canada, US, Mexico, Cuba and apparently a bunch more I forgot about.
Oh damn. I thought there was Canada and Not Canada.
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 John Oliver bit will never get old for me.
which one?
Can’t find a good video but it’s the one where he names a country and places its name on a world map. Then shows that it wasn’t that country at all to show his viewers are bad at world geography.
That was a terribly unfunny explanation by me. But I like the bit.
That’s it! Thanks for finding it.
Every state looks the exact same
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.
They should all be named Square
I can confirm that
is correctI’m just wondering how you mislocate “Virgin,” yet somehow get West Virginia right.
Mfw New York isn’t even labeled on the map.
Its to the left of the Great Tower of Kansas, sharing real estate with New Jersey and New Mexico.
Now that’s a sentence and a half
I find it interesting that Europeans are better at finding Washington than Americans.
COUNTRY ROOOOOOOOOADS
Honestly, that’s how I feel about Kansas as well
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.
Is nobody going to mention the absence of Alaska?
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
Americans are very sensitive about you knowing which state they’re from
It used to be that Prussians, Germans and Austrians would cut you for confusing them for one of the others.