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The world according to America
Topic Started: Dec 9 2010, 11:53 AM (518 Views)
Nemomon
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Today in Deviant Art Poll I saw this quote:

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*American* Where is Warsaw?!
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It's the capital of Poland.
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No wonder I've never heard of it then. :P


This reminds me of one joke, now it is very old and stupid, but seems like still correct:

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What's Your thought about this lack of basic geography skills?
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Xarizzar
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One word describing this... Stupid, lame and dumb. No offence, of course. Seriously, even MY Geography skills don't suck that much ._.
Edited by Xarizzar, Dec 9 2010, 12:08 PM.
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I voted Warsaw, only because it sounded cool, I reallly had no clue. Nor do I know where Warsaw is, I'm still in school. xD;;
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I blame teachers, and internet. Few decades ago peoples had will to travel and meet new countries, and now nope XD
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Lelouch
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That reminds of a story my Psychology Teacher told once. That most common people in 24 states of America don't know that Portugal is a country, but a city of Spain. NOW THAT'S IGNORANCE!
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The world according to america We think were #1,pretty much every country is supposedly 'communist', our government hides crap from us(the most), were hypocrites 90% of the time, a lot of racism is in the country,People think that all muslims are terrorists.
so to sum this up. america is the most ignorant country.EVER
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I'm in the 7th grade, and I'm taking world geography. It's really interesting.
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I think this ignorance is more prevalent in rural areas of the US such as Utah and Idaho. They have very little exposure to foreign people and influences, and thus are ignorant about foreign countries.
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That geographic illustration must be the most epic I've ever seen. Yay. [/sarcasm]

No offense to American people, but they must be the most ignorant country ever...
Also, who did they also made the "Don't judge the book by its cover." thing? Just asking.

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Dark Samus
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none taken but we are, also people are so ignorant everyone thought that this indian kid i knew was a terrorist
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I'm a Filipino born and living in America, and I must say I agree with this to some extent. A lot of people around here are so one-track-minded that if they see anything out of the typical American as far as people or objects, they stereotype to no end. For example, just because I'm of Asian decent and am good at basketball, they call me Yao Ming. :facepalm:
I'm neither Chinese nor THAT tall (Yao is 7'6, I'm 5'10) and my playing style isn't anything like his either.

Gotta realize that not everyone around here is like this, though. There are a lot of good people here as well.
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I don't see anything with the Warsaw, but the map looks very funny.
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America thinks he can drive to Hawaii.
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Stereotypes, Nemo. Not all Americans are dumb.
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^everybody knows that, although there are a lot of dumb*** americans out there.
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I went to Warsaw the other day, within the week at least, and it was a very nice city. except the part we went to see... that was a bit run down. But the old city was beautiful. i have photos. well, photos of me at least... so yeah. go Australia.
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What the countries call themselves... -_-" Its so true

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Nemomon
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We also should ask ourselves how are we calling another countries. For example Poles sometimes (but not usually) are calling Germans as "Szwaby" and their country as "Szwabia". This is taken from one of the lands of Germany - Schwaben). Of course I don't need to mention that Poles are using this words in pejorative manner. In fact I have no idea how historically it gets that meaning and pejorative form.
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Lol. So, according to some Americans, I'm a Dragon. xD
They even didn't draw Africa correctly, neither Europe.
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I'm pretty sure this only counts towards people from the show "Jersey Shore" and people in Los Angeles. Those people there must be the most ignorant type of folks according to KassemG (youtube).

Unfortunately, that is half out population right there... I feel ashamed to be an American. TT-TT
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