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While silly and a generalization, Americans tend to be pretty inward. When you have a country the size of a continent, it happens.
Do people do joggerefry at high school?
Can Europeans or people from other countries identify all the US states? You quickly forget the location of Turkmenistan if you don't travel to the region frequently.
This map is better
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In Canada's defense Arcade Fire is good and they're all bears.
I am American too ....I'm American and I do not have this viewpoint.
American's get this negative rap, but I wonder if you asked rural Indians of Chinese the same question if they could answer any better.
Also, while globally ignorant, that map pretty much is how the average American interacts with the rest of the world. Call centers in India, Vodka from Russia, electronics from Japan, wine from France and Italy.
Just like I think potatoes when people say Idaho and Hollywood when people say California. We associate with goods or services a country is known for.
Can Europeans or people from other countries identify all the US states? You quickly forget the location of Turkmenistan if you don't travel to the region frequently.
Can most americans identify all of the states in the US?
The responses of "the bottom" do not differ. The percentile of "the bottom" does. I'd be willing to bet that the 50th percentile Russian has a better sense of geography than the 50th percentile American (but that wouldn't be fair - Russians are obsessed with going to different countries). I'd be willing to bet the 50th percentile Indian is worse at geography than the 50th percentile American.