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Are Europeans more well versed with world geography than Americans? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 week ago by LtDan@lemmy.zip to c/europe@feddit.org
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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?

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[โ€“] guy@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Oh it's about size you mean? What is is a reasonable size for you to learn where a country is? And I mean, can you even name all the countries in, say Europe, without putting them on a map?

Funny thing about Russia. It's mostly in Asia so I mean you're technically correct but ๐Ÿคท

[โ€“] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not implying that size has any relevance to importance, merely to the general chance that someone can point to it on a map. It's a lot easier to identify Greenland than it is to identify Guatemala purely because it's a bigger target and it's more visible.

No, I sure can't name all of the European countries. Can you name all of the North American countries? (Why is either at all relevant?)

[โ€“] guy@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And what about it? Most know where the US and Russia is because of education, not because they're big and they can hazard a guess.

Because you talk about size and pointing out on a map as defining for geographic knowledge. Of course Europe is confusing for you if you don't even know what the continent contains.

Can you name all of the North American countries?

Of course lol

[โ€“] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 1 points 6 days ago

Of course lol

Can you? All 23 of them? If so, good for you (not being sarcastic), but I'd be willing to bet very good money that if I went and picked 10 random Europeans that at least 8 if not all 10 would not be able to do so.