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This whole "Americans are sh*tty at geography" thing has been brought up a few times now, and I really don't see the big deal.
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I think the real issue here is little brother syndrome. While y'all are busy being super powers, us Europeans are busy trying to remember what that was like. It is just conveniant to laugh at a lack of world knowledge and then feel all smug and superior in that way.
Us British for example like to point out, at great length and as often as we can, how large our empire was. However we are now not really all that significant.
Dear lord that was hard to type! Nexa is right. For the majority of Americans it is pretty irrelevant to know very much about the world outside their continent because invariably the USA is one side of most major international events anyway. Unfortunately this means that us Europeans have to learn an awful lot about your nation that we otherwise would be blissfully ignorant of. Meanwhile American television, music and commercial culture is being broadcast into our brains 24/7. That doesn't help the situation I am sure.
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Dumbass Americans!!
Rule Britania, Britania rules the waves.......