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Who Do SO MANY Americans think "The UK" and "Africa" are countries?

Illyria99 said:
Occasionally they leave Nebraska for pilgrimages to the REAL America. You can always spot them...flushed skin, limp hair, and mom jeans. Sighting them is similar to seeing Bigfoot. They don't like to be photographed. Nor can they survive too long away from Nebraska. Like fish out of water, they start gasping and quickly head back to their natural habitat.
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yea well they probably get their genetics from you pasty fucks who live in who gives a fuck
 
neversickanymore said:
And Europe has some amazing food.. but you all really have almost no Mexican and I don't think you know how three plus months will absolutely jones many Central and North Americans out for Mexican food..

I backpacked from Athens to London some years back and what an amazing trip.. First meal I hit State side was Mexican.. right after we broke outta long term parking with a dukes of hazard move with Chicago's finest mounted Police is in hot pursuit. True.
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and i give nothing but praise to the Europeans but they wanna come here and talk shit?

well then i'll give to you in spades

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The UltimateFixx said:
Some of them think Europe is a single country, as well.

Heck I've even heard from foreign students visiting the US and being told unironically that their countries 'don't exist', are made up, or they're asked what US state it's in. Also that Denmark is the capital of Sweden. Personally I've been told by an American tourist that Welsh isn't a language, despite the fact that he was in Wales and could see Welsh language signs everywhere. I could go on.
And if you try to correct them Americans get pissed off and insist they're right.

The level of ignorance of anything outside of the US is staggering and it's got to have to do with the education system (such as it is) concentrating only on America and treating it like it's the entire world.
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I have never heard any American state such obvious absurdities except from the supposed anecdotes of people from the U.K in an attempt to point out their superiority to Americans. I've heard a lot of dumb stuff come out of your country men's mouths as well.... I worked at Disney World and people from the U.K we're always the easiest to spot. They were usually the ones who puked beer all over the rides and themselves.

I suppose there is always ignorant people from every "country". That's a lot of generalizations about hundreds of millions of people spread across an entire nation of 50 states, the smallest of which could almost fit your entire kingdom within it but whatever makes you feel better mate. I once considered myself an anglophile with a strong connection to U.K culture but I can't say I identify with the smug sense of superiority.
 
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chinup said:
their education system is fucked. i feel bad saying that given that the UK system is also fucked. but the US is a whole other level of fucked. US students coming over on exchange programmes strggle, because even though they are technically in the same year of study, our level is higher. ditto when i went to france to study, their level is higher so i stuggled. they have to do the longest PhDs of anywhere (6 years compared to our 3.5) to be able to produce researchers capable of competing on a global stage.

at this point i think it has to be a willful decision by the ruling elites in the US to keep their people ignorant. and then cos of american exceptionalism most americans don't seem to stop to consider that they are in any way under informed.

it sounds really snide but these observations have been repeated by everyone i know who has studied with, or lectured, US students. and those are the ones intelligent enough to go to uni and interesting and curious enough to study abroad, so they are outliers right at the top, but its still so fucking obvious. on the one hand, its sad. on the other hand, most jobs don't require much education and if people are happy, who cares. problem is that poorly educated people are more easily manipulated.
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The average PHD program in the United States is 6yrs.
 
The UK is an abbreviation for United Kingdom, and the four kingdoms within it are Scotland, Wales, England, and Northern Ireland. Currently, it's a "constitutional monarchy" meaning that legislation is controlled by elected officials, including parliament (e.g. House of Commons and House of Lords) and the Prime Minister. Though, the UK does have a national government and is a country. It's similar to how the US is divided into separate states.

Obviously, Africa is not a country. It doesn't even have a unified culture or anything like that. There are multiple countries, and each of them have separate governments, different cultural customs, languages, etc. I've honestly never met anyone uninformed enough to think that Africa was all one country honestly.
ChemicallyEnhanced said:
DO non-Americans think the US is all the same? I certainly don't. I mean, I couldn't list different characteristics for literally every state, but I'm aware of the huge differences between most states etc.
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As an American, I can say that there certainly are regional differences in culture from one region of the country to another. However, there's a lot more similarity between different regions of the US than a lot of other countries. Many nations have vastly different cultures from one region to another, including different languages. This simply is not the case in the US. There are different US accents, regional slang, and even region-specific foods. However, the country is somewhat more culturally unified than many others. In general, there are differences here, but they're never really significant enough to give any region a culture that's truly different from other parts of the country.
 
LandsUnknown said:
The UK is an abbreviation for United Kingdom, and the four kingdoms within it are Scotland, Wales, England, and Northern Ireland. Currently, it's a "constitutional monarchy" meaning that legislation is controlled by elected officials, including parliament (e.g. House of Commons and House of Lords) and the Prime Minister. Though, the UK does have a national government and is a country. It's similar to how the US is divided into separate states.

Obviously, Africa is not a country. It doesn't even have a unified culture or anything like that. There are multiple countries, and each of them have separate governments, different cultural customs, languages, etc. I've honestly never met anyone uninformed enough to think that Africa was all one country honestly.

As an American, I can say that there certainly are regional differences in culture from one region of the country to another. However, there's a lot more similarity between different regions of the US than a lot of other countries. Many nations have vastly different cultures from one region to another, including different languages. This simply is not the case in the US. There are different US accents, regional slang, and even region-specific foods. However, the country is somewhat more culturally unified than many others. In general, there are differences here, but they're never really significant enough to give any region a culture that's truly different from other parts of the country.
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The UK IS NOT. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are all countries. So it's not similar at all the the US and it's states. England is even divided into counties which is similar to the US's states.
 
ChemicallyEnhanced said:
The UK IS NOT. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are all countries. So it's not similar at all the the US and it's states. England is even divided into counties which is similar to the US's states.
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I know that they're separate countries, but isn't there a national government for all of the UK? Doesn't parliament have legislative authority in the whole UK?
 
LandsUnknown said:
I know that they're separate countries, but isn't there a national government for all of the UK? Doesn't parliament have legislative authority in the whole UK?
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Yes, but as a group of united countries. The same way the U.N. is a group where there are a group/system of laws for all of the countries in it.
 
ChemicallyEnhanced said:
The UK IS NOT. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are all countries. So it's not similar at all the the US and it's states. England is even divided into counties which is similar to the US's states.
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Oh yeah.... Our country is divided into states, which are further divided into counties so that's not at all like your kingdoms divided into countries divided by counties. Not similar whatsoever. We even have further demarcations of area called cities within counties, of states in our country of the continent of 'Merica.... And when you type up the center of the world on Google maps it brings up an image of my house.... So there.

And also it would appear that N. Ireland is not entirely considered a country so it might help your cause if you could learn the specific nomenclature of your own kingdom before chastising people across an Ocean for failing to be able to do so.
 
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somnilicious said:
Oh yeah.... Our country is divided into states, which are further divided into counties so that's not at all like your kingdoms divided into countries divided by counties. Not similar whatsoever. We even have further demarcations of area called cities within counties, of states in our country of the continent of 'Merica.... And when you type up the center of the world on Google maps it brings up an image of my house.... So there.

And also it would appear that N. Ireland is not entirely considered a country so it might help your cause if you could learn the specific nomenclature of your own kingdom before chastising people across an Ocean for failing to be able to do so.
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Northern Ireland is 100% considered a country.
 
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