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Americans were asked to place european countries on a map
« on: November 28, 2013, 12:20:52 pm »
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Hope it's not real  :lol:


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Re: Americans were asked to place european countries on a map
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2013, 12:44:12 pm »
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And can you name all 51 states of the USA on a map? I know I can't.
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Re: Americans were asked to place european countries on a map
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2013, 12:50:45 pm »
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States aren't countries.
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Re: Americans were asked to place european countries on a map
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2013, 12:51:05 pm »
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And can you name all 51 states of the USA on a map? I know I can't.

I bet Americans cant do it aswell.

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Re: Americans were asked to place european countries on a map
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2013, 04:05:17 pm »
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I bet Americans cant do it aswell.

Can you name every country and It's location on that same map? How about can you name every country on NA to make it equivelent? Most people don't care about Geography. All they need to know is: Country=European (Or arabic, or asain, etc etc). Knowing exact locations is irrelevent in most instances, unless you are THE ONE who has to pick up something right then to do to that country.

And if what's shown, Americans picked out the main countries in Europe they NEED to know. France, Germany, UK, and Russia. Sadly, the rest aren't world influencers(like those 4)
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Re: Americans were asked to place european countries on a map
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2013, 04:08:22 pm »
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to be fair most people cant name and place every single European country unless they really like geography, a lot would fail or mix up slovakia slovenia and latvia estonia etc (ex ussr countries are the worst to remember :D )
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Re: Americans were asked to place european countries on a map
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2013, 04:19:45 pm »
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to be fair most people cant name and place every single European country unless they really like geography.

Or just by having a decent education
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Re: Americans were asked to place european countries on a map
« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2013, 04:21:25 pm »
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States aren't countries.

Ye and some countries are superimportant arent they. A single US state that has a population, productivity and size of atleast 3 notsoknown European countries is clearly less significant.

I always cocked up the Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria etc part in geographytests. I mean ffs they even sound alike.

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Re: Americans were asked to place european countries on a map
« Reply #8 on: November 28, 2013, 04:26:13 pm »
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Quite suprised how many nailed my shitty little country, guess the tourist board is doing it's job after all.

Could you name all South American, Africa, Asian coutries correctly, I couldn't, not to mention the states...
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Re: Americans were asked to place european countries on a map
« Reply #9 on: November 28, 2013, 04:27:15 pm »
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Or just by having a decent education

so you could place every country correctly on a blank map?
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Re: Americans were asked to place european countries on a map
« Reply #10 on: November 28, 2013, 04:31:01 pm »
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Wow someone did pretty good.
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Re: Americans were asked to place european countries on a map
« Reply #11 on: November 28, 2013, 04:36:27 pm »
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so you could place every country correctly on a blank map?
approx 75% right
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Re: Americans were asked to place european countries on a map
« Reply #12 on: November 28, 2013, 04:46:35 pm »
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On a blank map i wouldn't know where to put exactly some European countries, like for example Belarus, i guess it's somewhere between Russia and Poland maybe, or Moldova (between Romania-Ukraine?) and the the Baltic countries, i know where they are, but  i think i could confuse Lithuania with Estonia-Latvia or vice-versa.

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Re: Americans were asked to place european countries on a map
« Reply #13 on: November 28, 2013, 06:24:46 pm »
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My favorite was the map that said something like, "Oh god I have my master's degree".
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Re: Americans were asked to place european countries on a map
« Reply #14 on: November 28, 2013, 07:31:08 pm »
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Can you name every country and It's location on that same map? How about can you name every country on NA to make it equivelent? Most people don't care about Geography. All they need to know is: Country=European (Or arabic, or asain, etc etc). Knowing exact locations is irrelevent in most instances, unless you are THE ONE who has to pick up something right then to do to that country.

And if what's shown, Americans picked out the main countries in Europe they NEED to know. France, Germany, UK, and Russia. Sadly, the rest aren't world influencers(like those 4)

Yeah you re right on most points, its not funny when they confuse slovenia and slovakia , cuz everyone can make that mistake, but when you place Mongolia on Ukraine , Turkey on a random Balkan country , and cant even name Greece, now thats funny :D

I believe I can name most countries (%95) in the world on a blank map except of Africa, also I can name 2-3 cities in each one.Its because Turkey is one of 3-4 countries teaches Geography at schools.