We don’t know our own
I had an interesting conversation with an American, where he slagged off G. W. Bush (seems like a regular pastime) and how those who voted for him were dumbasses. Then he tells me that the United States has 52 states.
Now, maybe I am not an American, but I count the stars on the flag and they total 50, and I was always raised at school with the idea there were 50. Alaska and Hawai’i joined the union in 1959. Before that, there were, ooh, 50 minus 2 equals 48.
Unless it is preemptive counting and Iraq and Afghanistan make up the other two? Or Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
Mind you, I didn’t know where Wanganui was on the map till someone showed me five or six years ago.
‘Hey man, do you know where the Victoria Falls are?’
‘Somewhere near Taupo, aren’t they?’
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I admit that I've guffawed my own country's geography from time to time. I think we're all guilty of not paying attention to our local items and for branching out into other people's knowledge in that sense.
I remember when I accidentally stated there were 6 billion Muslims...which is the population of the whole freaking world...it was supposed to be 1.6