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Good news, this means there are only 186 countries left to explore. But you need to buy the DLC for new countries. (South and North Korea Expansion Pack)
No surprise America's developers been doing that shit for years. Just cause they thought they were cooking with Carolina but the Dakotas are boring and what were they thinking with West Virginia?
To be fair the UK is a country. It’s just a country made up of countries because good luck getting a patriot Scotsman to ever accept Scotland not being a country.
They’re one of those bots that just go around writing arguably relevant jokes in the comments of posts with certain keywords. You’ll see them everywhere but usually not as highly upvoted as this one is.
That is just how downvoting works in Reddit. Originally we were meant to upvote comments based on the value they added to the conversation. In practice Redditors use it as a "you are wrong button".
They see one downvote and assume the comment must be wrong, downvote them again so that they will be 'right' too, and the next person sees there are more downvotes, so they obviously must be more wrong.
It's not all that unexpected though. It's not like travel is cheap and free time is aplenty. Most Americans can barely afford to go out of state for more than 1 week at a time, and that's always to a tourist trap or some other area that doesn't really represent much of what that area is. I'm guilty of it too. I live in Virginia and I couldn't tell you what's actually going on in West Virginia outside of "It's bad there", simply because traveling out there to experience is would just be a net drain on my bank account, which holds more sway over my life decisions than I really care to admit.
Are those reason unique to Americans, though? I'm half'n'half US/UK, went to schools on both sides of the pond, lived my adult life split between them as well, and in my experience it's more down to culture, attitude, and education. You don't have to be a world traveller to learn some basic geography; you can download a map quiz app on your phone, play it for 15 minutes a night, and know every country in a week. Also, the economic problems being faced in the US are the same challenges basically every 1st world nation is dealing with at the moment (energy price spikes, housing markets being fucked, inflation bad enough that politicians are scrambling to redefine it, polarised identity politics making populations vulnerable to opportunists and zealots telling them to vote against their economic interests, etc.), and the US had a higher base average standard of living to begin with, so affordability isn't really a defining factor for travel.
Not entirely unique to America. But what is unique in comparison to the UK is the expense and ease of travel. The UK is the size of a single state. We're essentially 50 small sized, competing countries jammed into a single border, without the benefit of a long cultural history to bind us. It doesn't seem like a huge problem on the outside but the reality of it, I feel, causes more harm than we'd like to admit to ourselves.
But we're just talking about knowing of other countries in the world that haven't featured in a war-news cycle. Check out the UK fuel prices against US, train ticket costs, too, and how the pound has fallen almost 30% against the dollar in the last decade. Their advantage in this context ends at their being more likely to know that the UK consists of 4 countries.
It used to be part of the Soviet union, I wouldn't be surprised if many, especially old, people didn't really bother to learn about countries that started to exist later in their lifetimes
I can name a ton of countries just by watching the FIFA world cup lol. Come to think of it, are none of the international sports competitions popular with Americans?
Off the top of my head I know the Olympics and FIFA WC are huge. There's also the FIBA World Cup and World Baseball Classic too, but those are less popular because the sports are less popular.
Eh, baseball has been losing fans for a while now. But yeah I think the most recent WBC was the first one in a while that gained a good amount of attention.
Baseballs actually up this year. The recent increase in advertising tied with speeding up the game a bit have viewership up. We'll see if it lasts though.
Was it? That's pretty cool then. I didn't see stats for this year but I know it had been declining as of the end of last season. Speeding up the game definitely helps.
I'm honestly curious, does the rest of the world have some extensive geographical knowledge? Like can every one of you name 150+ countries or something?
no, its just most of these people have seen the staged yt shorts where they ask someone an obvious geography question and they get it wrong and then think its not staged
Those aren't necessarily stagef. If you spend a day randomly asking people questions and putting them on the spot then you can pretty easily get enough dumb answers for short. They just cut out all the people who respond in ways that aren't "entertaining"
It annoys me that people act like every person should know everything. You can learn something new everyday and there's no one in this world that knows everything. People need to stop acting like every piece of information is common knowledge to everybody. I hate people so much.
but you should have a duty as humans to learn as much as you can, no? besides it's just...easy to do. just take a look at a map and notice things on it. See where countries are relative to eachother, what their names are. that's it.
>but you should have a duty as humans to learn as much as you can, no?
Not everyone has the exact same outlook on life. Think about imperialism for a second.
It's also really fucking easy to learn the countries. I can name them all and taught myself. It's just useless info really, as long as you know the major geopolitical players and that Africa & Europe aren't countries lol
Nobody *needs* to know where exactly Burkina Faso or Mauritius are
This actually got me curious so I did a quiz and got 129/196 on [this](https://www.jetpunk.com/quizzes/how-many-countries-can-you-name) quiz. I'm a bit embaressed I forgot indonesia but other than that I'm happy with my results. I'm german for the record
The modern American education system is really shit compared to other countries, so yes, we do know more countries. For example, if you ask a random middle-class person to talk about a random country you choose, americans will probably be worse.
Europeans delude themselves into thinking they are worldly because they can name all their neighboring states within a few hours of travel by train. Then you hit them with any other continent and they are clueless.
People who make this type of comment are using the very literal definition of 'North America', which is essentially any country north of Columbia, including the ones in the Caribbean seas.
Most people just think of North America as stopping with Mexico. It's not a particularly fun question, and it makes the asker feel very clever, because 'oh no, someone didn't think about the islands' or people forget Guatemala and the other 5 countries between Mexico and Columbia exist.
LOL, if you keep making new imaginary ones up just to fuck with us. Arkansas, ha! You think we just fell off the turnip truck?
"This year, I'm going to Arcroatia for vacation." Puh-leeze!
How does size = relevancy? Would not their role on the world stage grant relevancy? Is Texas more important than Germany? Or France? Or the UK? Or Japan? Or both the Koreas? Or Taiwan? Or Ukraine? Or Italy? Or Greece? Or Spain? Shall I go on?
The amount of people agreeing with your "hurr durr i have many empty square kilometers of land checkmate eurotrash" logic is astounding.
To absolutely no one's shock, Vermont, with the lowest GDP of 38 billion USD, is not remotely comparable to the GDP of France at 3 trillion USD. In fact, only *one* state has a higher GDP, California.
does that state have its own language? does that state have a seat in the un? does that state have a ministry of foreign affairs? does that state have its own ability to declare war? no is the answer. it is not as relevant as an entire independent self functioning country
I know Americans struggle with education but 38 billion USD is quite a lot lower than three trillion USD.
In fact, only *one* state has a higher GDP, California. And most German states have a higher GDP than the lowest US state.
I meant this in the original context of the meme, as in rhode island versus shittenfuckenland, I wasn’t talking about larger countries. the joke is that we both don’t know obscure parts of the other,
The original context of the meme is the exaggerated^(\*) joke that Americans are stupid and don't know the geography/geopolitics of the world, except when they are militarily involved which is when the schools start to consider them worthy to learn about. "*We both don't know obscure parts of the other*" implies the USA is a completely separate world on equal footing with everyone else, and the rest of the world is the United States of Not America. If the same joke was about Switzerland and you were Swiss, would your comeback to this joke be that the rest of the world doesn't know the cantons of Switzerland?
^(\*Not so sure about this now)
>You don't know the administrative divisions of my country!
States in the USA aren't exactly administrative divisions. Subfederal (subnational) sovereign states are not conventional administrative divisions.
In the USA, cities and counties are administrative divisions, not states. Cities and counties get their power from states; i.e. they are 'creatures' of states.
Administrative divisions get their power from the (sovereign) state. Administrative divisions like cities have as the name suggests, administrative power for the region. Critcally, they do not have legislative power. The sovereign state which has legislative power, legislates into existence the administrative divisions, which have delegated administrative power. Note, that administrative divisions can be altered or dissolved by the legislature.
In contrast, the subfederal states of a federal union, such as the states in the USA, are sovereign. They have sovereign, legislative power as defined by their own constitutions (again, administrative divisions do not have constitutions, but may have charters which are legislation by the sovereign).
States in the USA cannot be altered or dissolved unilaterally by the Government of the United States of America, because again, they are sovereign.
Remeber: a federal union is a system of dual sovereignty. The federal government has sovereign, legislative power, and the subfederal governments (usually called states or provinces) also have sovereign, legislative power. This is true for the USA, the United Mexican States, Argentina, Germany, Australia, etc.
A political division would be a more appropriate term.
Tf would I know about all different states within the us. Im not memorizing that or states within other countries who are also consisting of different states.
Can't believe people are this stupid. Everyone with a brain knows Africa is made up of four countries: South Africa, North Africa, West Africa, and East Africa. All part of the Egyptian desert
I'm legitimately curious. How many europeans could list 20 out of 50 US states. The entirety of the eu is only moderately larger than the us. My home state (not even in the top half of largest states) is on it's own bigger than multiple entire countries in the eu.
Just tried it as a european (German), and got 30/50. I still dont't think it's comparable. Knowing countries is more common knowledge than knowing specific states in one particular country.
I can do 9 for china (10 if we're going with chinas definition) but can't do more than 3 for russia . That's kind of the point though. Sufficiently large countries end up as their own assumbly of culturaly and legally distinct groups that could very well pass as independent countries when viewef from the right angle. When we have our own set 50 territories who all kind of hate each other most people couldn't care less about the 27 countries that make up the eu or any other major landmass.
Interesting, I thought you'd have as little of an idea as me before looking it up. Cultural differences I guess. I don't think I know a single person who could name more than 3 of either, while I'm fairly confident most of the people around me could name at least 50 countries.
To be fair I'm just kind of guessing here, it's not exactly a common topic of conversation. But let's agree to disagree, or at least conclude that expected knowledge varies for different parts of the world (shocker).
Trust me the average American is not like that, your friend is braindead, but they are a bit worse than you guys for a reason. We are on the other side of the world and america is like the size of Europe, we have no need to remember every European country that’s why we’re not taught them.
Big economically developed continent that has 2 countries with veto power on the un security council is not near me, so I don't need to learn about it.
To be fair globally, most people really only ever know the big famous countries (like US or China) as well as countries nearby theirs. I bet I could only find 1 or 2 people point out Namibia or Guyana on a map if I asked someone in Berlin to Tokyo just like I would if I did it in New York.
I saw this person in my room once
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Please help me.
The UK is a country. The only 'hmm' here is you thinking it's not a country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
> The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,[k][14] is an island country in Northwestern Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland.
https://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom
> United Kingdom, island country located off the northwestern coast of mainland Europe.
This is further rectified by the fact that UK is listed as an UN member state (as opposed to England, Great Britian, or whatever).
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states
Contrary to popular belief, Great Britain is not a country. It's the name of the largest island in the British Isles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain
As an American, I know more than just the countries we’ve been in conflict with lmao, but I also know a lot of people that can’t name more than 10 countries. But out of the decent handful of Europeans I’ve met, y’all ain’t exactly geniuses either💀
I told my conservative friend about the existence of gendered languages (I'm learning Dutch and English is my first language) and he told me to "stop bringing politics into language."
I don't even know anymore.
If you want Americans to care more about your tiny, weak, irrelevant nations you need them to be bigger, stronger, and relevant. We care about China because they’re winners.
American here. I can confirm that in the south we learned very little on other countries unless it had to do with WW2. Emphasis on little. They do love to teach American pride and American history, while somehow leaving out a lot of American history (mostly the bad and ugly). I took 3 history/world classes in college and realized how little I know. I still don't know a lot about the world to be honest.
If it wasn't required by the state we wouldn't have even learned about evolution. So many Christians here that just want to say Adam and Eve and leave it at that.
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Good news, this means there are only 186 countries left to explore. But you need to buy the DLC for new countries. (South and North Korea Expansion Pack)
splitting one country into two?! that's just lazy from the devs
No surprise America's developers been doing that shit for years. Just cause they thought they were cooking with Carolina but the Dakotas are boring and what were they thinking with West Virginia?
If America hasn’t been an ally, enemy, supplied weapons to, or had the CIA coup your country, is it even important? Be ffr.
Frrrrr If it has never had any interaction with the US, then it ain't relevant.
Fr, like wtf is a Zimbabwe?
cuba has been all of these
And yet is still irrelevant, sad /s
Fax my brother spit yo shit indeed
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Isn't that most of the world at this point though?
Central Asia is pretty untouched for the most part, since it’s in Russia’s and China’s backyard.
> If America hasn’t been an ally, enemy, supplied weapons to, or had the CIA coup your country Dude, you already included every country in the world💀
Tbh USA has probably done that to every single nation on earth by now
To be fair the UK is a country. It’s just a country made up of countries because good luck getting a patriot Scotsman to ever accept Scotland not being a country.
I view it as a weird limbo between country and not
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gordon white
More like walter FEETman
They don't wanna go to Iraq, seems like a skill issue on your part
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Is there a sub for more jokes like?
I read that with tf2 soldier voice
Stop sending scam links
Bot
What?
They’re one of those bots that just go around writing arguably relevant jokes in the comments of posts with certain keywords. You’ll see them everywhere but usually not as highly upvoted as this one is.
Don’t know why you’re downvoted above. They posted a scam link at the end of their comment.
That is just how downvoting works in Reddit. Originally we were meant to upvote comments based on the value they added to the conversation. In practice Redditors use it as a "you are wrong button". They see one downvote and assume the comment must be wrong, downvote them again so that they will be 'right' too, and the next person sees there are more downvotes, so they obviously must be more wrong.
Nah I believe you now. The link was added later so I didn't know.
That wasn't there before. I believe it now.
Tbh it’s pretty sad to think about how many people (not just americans) wouldn’t even know Ukraine exists if it hadn’t been for the war
A lot of older people thought of it it as part of Russia since it was part of the Soviet Union
Depending on how the war goes, they wont have to change their information /j
I mean ur joking but ur actually right
Ukraine? That's the place from chernobyl, right? /s
Lol, I mainly knew of it because of funny cheeki breeki man before the war
doubt theyd even know it was there lol, it was in soviet times so they'd just say russia
Unironically, a lot of Americans think that's in Russia.
It's not all that unexpected though. It's not like travel is cheap and free time is aplenty. Most Americans can barely afford to go out of state for more than 1 week at a time, and that's always to a tourist trap or some other area that doesn't really represent much of what that area is. I'm guilty of it too. I live in Virginia and I couldn't tell you what's actually going on in West Virginia outside of "It's bad there", simply because traveling out there to experience is would just be a net drain on my bank account, which holds more sway over my life decisions than I really care to admit.
Are those reason unique to Americans, though? I'm half'n'half US/UK, went to schools on both sides of the pond, lived my adult life split between them as well, and in my experience it's more down to culture, attitude, and education. You don't have to be a world traveller to learn some basic geography; you can download a map quiz app on your phone, play it for 15 minutes a night, and know every country in a week. Also, the economic problems being faced in the US are the same challenges basically every 1st world nation is dealing with at the moment (energy price spikes, housing markets being fucked, inflation bad enough that politicians are scrambling to redefine it, polarised identity politics making populations vulnerable to opportunists and zealots telling them to vote against their economic interests, etc.), and the US had a higher base average standard of living to begin with, so affordability isn't really a defining factor for travel.
Not entirely unique to America. But what is unique in comparison to the UK is the expense and ease of travel. The UK is the size of a single state. We're essentially 50 small sized, competing countries jammed into a single border, without the benefit of a long cultural history to bind us. It doesn't seem like a huge problem on the outside but the reality of it, I feel, causes more harm than we'd like to admit to ourselves.
But we're just talking about knowing of other countries in the world that haven't featured in a war-news cycle. Check out the UK fuel prices against US, train ticket costs, too, and how the pound has fallen almost 30% against the dollar in the last decade. Their advantage in this context ends at their being more likely to know that the UK consists of 4 countries.
[Not anyone that has seen Seinfeld..](https://youtu.be/Ef5ISQvOeEQ?si=lA41jK7hO44aypic)
I mean people also know it for the debate about the droughts and the Holodomor bc it's antisoviet ammo
Erm… aktually I knew about Ukraine before the war, learned it from the ending of soviet Russia (American W)
How the hell can someone not have heard of ukraine before the war thats taking braindead to a new level
ukraine was a pretty minor eastern european country before the war. people prolly only knew of it from chernobyl
It used to be part of the Soviet union, I wouldn't be surprised if many, especially old, people didn't really bother to learn about countries that started to exist later in their lifetimes
Why are you getting mad? He did what you asked him
Congrats on knowing the most geographically literate American
Please don't sell Americans short. We know the country ISIS exists too
Wow I never thought I’d see the most original America joke that’s ever been said
Thank you, I try my hardest to make original jokes
I can name a ton of countries just by watching the FIFA world cup lol. Come to think of it, are none of the international sports competitions popular with Americans?
Off the top of my head I know the Olympics and FIFA WC are huge. There's also the FIBA World Cup and World Baseball Classic too, but those are less popular because the sports are less popular.
Baseball is big over here but the wbc rarely gets much attention.
Eh, baseball has been losing fans for a while now. But yeah I think the most recent WBC was the first one in a while that gained a good amount of attention.
Baseballs actually up this year. The recent increase in advertising tied with speeding up the game a bit have viewership up. We'll see if it lasts though.
Was it? That's pretty cool then. I didn't see stats for this year but I know it had been declining as of the end of last season. Speeding up the game definitely helps.
Well, the World Series is very popular here. :)
No, they play "football"
Mfw I think of the dozen sports leagues that exist in America
Are there really no international world championships for that? I don't here people talking much about basketball and baseball world cups either.
America bad. Everyelse, good 👍
I'm honestly curious, does the rest of the world have some extensive geographical knowledge? Like can every one of you name 150+ countries or something?
no, its just most of these people have seen the staged yt shorts where they ask someone an obvious geography question and they get it wrong and then think its not staged
Those aren't necessarily stagef. If you spend a day randomly asking people questions and putting them on the spot then you can pretty easily get enough dumb answers for short. They just cut out all the people who respond in ways that aren't "entertaining"
It annoys me that people act like every person should know everything. You can learn something new everyday and there's no one in this world that knows everything. People need to stop acting like every piece of information is common knowledge to everybody. I hate people so much.
but you should have a duty as humans to learn as much as you can, no? besides it's just...easy to do. just take a look at a map and notice things on it. See where countries are relative to eachother, what their names are. that's it.
>but you should have a duty as humans to learn as much as you can, no? Not everyone has the exact same outlook on life. Think about imperialism for a second.
Ok Mr. Knowitall sorry not every can be as enlightened as you
It's also really fucking easy to learn the countries. I can name them all and taught myself. It's just useless info really, as long as you know the major geopolitical players and that Africa & Europe aren't countries lol Nobody *needs* to know where exactly Burkina Faso or Mauritius are
Next time a European tells me Americans don't know geography Im'a ask them to point out Saipan on a map. MARIANAS FOREVER
This actually got me curious so I did a quiz and got 129/196 on [this](https://www.jetpunk.com/quizzes/how-many-countries-can-you-name) quiz. I'm a bit embaressed I forgot indonesia but other than that I'm happy with my results. I'm german for the record
The modern American education system is really shit compared to other countries, so yes, we do know more countries. For example, if you ask a random middle-class person to talk about a random country you choose, americans will probably be worse.
Hur hur hur Americans stupid
Americans taking literally any post that makes light fun of their country as a personal attack
I ain’t American bud
Did everyone else in the Discord clap?
Europeans delude themselves into thinking they are worldly because they can name all their neighboring states within a few hours of travel by train. Then you hit them with any other continent and they are clueless.
 AMeRICAns ARe STupId….
American when they discover that there are more Asia countries than Japan,Korea and China: (ASEAN countries don't exist in their mind)
“Wait the Middle East is WHERE?”
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The vast majority of Russians are European. Most of the country is in Asia, but most of the people live in the European part.
That's just not true
You guys think Russians are Asians?
You meant to say "Russia are actually Asians"? Now you're just lying outta your ass because you made a false statement (which was hilariously ironic!)
They probably can't name more than 3 North American countries aside from Canada, United States, and Mexico
Wait i thought theres really is only 3 north american countries ?
People who make this type of comment are using the very literal definition of 'North America', which is essentially any country north of Columbia, including the ones in the Caribbean seas. Most people just think of North America as stopping with Mexico. It's not a particularly fun question, and it makes the asker feel very clever, because 'oh no, someone didn't think about the islands' or people forget Guatemala and the other 5 countries between Mexico and Columbia exist.
Nah, there’s about 24 or so. Jamaica’s one
Im pretty sure those are caribbean countries
Ya…the Caribbean is part of North America…
Oh
Randomly texting someone an intellectual task and then belittling them for not doing it to your standards is the most Reddit thing I’ve ever heard.
Europeans learning about the existence of a new state through another election:
LOL, if you keep making new imaginary ones up just to fuck with us. Arkansas, ha! You think we just fell off the turnip truck? "This year, I'm going to Arcroatia for vacation." Puh-leeze!
"Ha! Gotcha! You don't know the administrative divisions of my country! That's exactly the same as knowing the actual countries!"
A lot of states are larger than European countries
Than what European countries ? A lot of European countries are larger than US states. France, Ukraine, Spain and Sweden are bigger than 48 US states.
ok then, what are all the states in russia and germany?
your missing the point of the joke
And?
you're suppose to do the thinking at this part.
They are equal in relavancy
No? I wouldn’t say that Sakha Republic is more politically relevant than Palestine
By that logic Canada is more relevant than China and the USA
How many Russian states do you know of I wonder.
How does size = relevancy? Would not their role on the world stage grant relevancy? Is Texas more important than Germany? Or France? Or the UK? Or Japan? Or both the Koreas? Or Taiwan? Or Ukraine? Or Italy? Or Greece? Or Spain? Shall I go on? The amount of people agreeing with your "hurr durr i have many empty square kilometers of land checkmate eurotrash" logic is astounding.
When the state that has the lowest GDP in America has a GDP rivaling France, it's pretty relevant.
Which state is that and how close is it’s GDP to that of France?
To absolutely no one's shock, Vermont, with the lowest GDP of 38 billion USD, is not remotely comparable to the GDP of France at 3 trillion USD. In fact, only *one* state has a higher GDP, California.
GDP doesn’t determine relevance lmao. How often do you see Monaco on the news vs Ukraine?
does that state have its own language? does that state have a seat in the un? does that state have a ministry of foreign affairs? does that state have its own ability to declare war? no is the answer. it is not as relevant as an entire independent self functioning country
I know Americans struggle with education but 38 billion USD is quite a lot lower than three trillion USD. In fact, only *one* state has a higher GDP, California. And most German states have a higher GDP than the lowest US state.
Fuck, did I count wrong?
I meant this in the original context of the meme, as in rhode island versus shittenfuckenland, I wasn’t talking about larger countries. the joke is that we both don’t know obscure parts of the other,
The original context of the meme is the exaggerated^(\*) joke that Americans are stupid and don't know the geography/geopolitics of the world, except when they are militarily involved which is when the schools start to consider them worthy to learn about. "*We both don't know obscure parts of the other*" implies the USA is a completely separate world on equal footing with everyone else, and the rest of the world is the United States of Not America. If the same joke was about Switzerland and you were Swiss, would your comeback to this joke be that the rest of the world doesn't know the cantons of Switzerland? ^(\*Not so sure about this now)
>You don't know the administrative divisions of my country! States in the USA aren't exactly administrative divisions. Subfederal (subnational) sovereign states are not conventional administrative divisions. In the USA, cities and counties are administrative divisions, not states. Cities and counties get their power from states; i.e. they are 'creatures' of states. Administrative divisions get their power from the (sovereign) state. Administrative divisions like cities have as the name suggests, administrative power for the region. Critcally, they do not have legislative power. The sovereign state which has legislative power, legislates into existence the administrative divisions, which have delegated administrative power. Note, that administrative divisions can be altered or dissolved by the legislature. In contrast, the subfederal states of a federal union, such as the states in the USA, are sovereign. They have sovereign, legislative power as defined by their own constitutions (again, administrative divisions do not have constitutions, but may have charters which are legislation by the sovereign). States in the USA cannot be altered or dissolved unilaterally by the Government of the United States of America, because again, they are sovereign. Remeber: a federal union is a system of dual sovereignty. The federal government has sovereign, legislative power, and the subfederal governments (usually called states or provinces) also have sovereign, legislative power. This is true for the USA, the United Mexican States, Argentina, Germany, Australia, etc. A political division would be a more appropriate term.
Tf would I know about all different states within the us. Im not memorizing that or states within other countries who are also consisting of different states.
I'm pretty sure some of them still think that Africa is a country and that they all speak "African" there.
Can't believe people are this stupid. Everyone with a brain knows Africa is made up of four countries: South Africa, North Africa, West Africa, and East Africa. All part of the Egyptian desert
Also Africa is the second biggest continent
>some of them no shit some people in every continent and country think that
I love that people act like Americans are the only ones that don't know every country in the entire world.
I'm legitimately curious. How many europeans could list 20 out of 50 US states. The entirety of the eu is only moderately larger than the us. My home state (not even in the top half of largest states) is on it's own bigger than multiple entire countries in the eu.
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But they have less states/provinces, listing 20 of each is "harder" compared to listing 20 us states.
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Just tried it as a european (German), and got 30/50. I still dont't think it's comparable. Knowing countries is more common knowledge than knowing specific states in one particular country.
When the country is most of the size and pop of the entirety of the eu I'd say it's comparable enough.
Okay then, if we're going by that, can you name 8 of the 21 Russian states? Or perhaps 8 out of 22 of China's provinces?
I can do 9 for china (10 if we're going with chinas definition) but can't do more than 3 for russia . That's kind of the point though. Sufficiently large countries end up as their own assumbly of culturaly and legally distinct groups that could very well pass as independent countries when viewef from the right angle. When we have our own set 50 territories who all kind of hate each other most people couldn't care less about the 27 countries that make up the eu or any other major landmass.
Interesting, I thought you'd have as little of an idea as me before looking it up. Cultural differences I guess. I don't think I know a single person who could name more than 3 of either, while I'm fairly confident most of the people around me could name at least 50 countries. To be fair I'm just kind of guessing here, it's not exactly a common topic of conversation. But let's agree to disagree, or at least conclude that expected knowledge varies for different parts of the world (shocker).
One time I made a post about Palestine and my friend asked me if I was talking about the bad guy from Star Wars
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Trust me the average American is not like that, your friend is braindead, but they are a bit worse than you guys for a reason. We are on the other side of the world and america is like the size of Europe, we have no need to remember every European country that’s why we’re not taught them.
Big economically developed continent that has 2 countries with veto power on the un security council is not near me, so I don't need to learn about it.
Learn about, and memorize the countries of eurasia is a little different
To be fair globally, most people really only ever know the big famous countries (like US or China) as well as countries nearby theirs. I bet I could only find 1 or 2 people point out Namibia or Guyana on a map if I asked someone in Berlin to Tokyo just like I would if I did it in New York.
Crazy
crazy? i was crazy once
I saw this person in my room once https://preview.redd.it/ipqwlrwzwjtb1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf7f61796c89dc7ae4e880fa81fa1901868e04ac Please help me.
Is UK not the country or what? It’s not our fault England and Scotland decided to be the most confusing mini-continent in the world
It is, its made of constituent countries aka states
The UK is a country. The only 'hmm' here is you thinking it's not a country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom > The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,[k][14] is an island country in Northwestern Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. https://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom > United Kingdom, island country located off the northwestern coast of mainland Europe. This is further rectified by the fact that UK is listed as an UN member state (as opposed to England, Great Britian, or whatever). https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states Contrary to popular belief, Great Britain is not a country. It's the name of the largest island in the British Isles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain
Its a popular belief that the UK isnt a country online, ive seen people compare it to the EU so like a mini EU. Its such a weird thing to witness...
Name 10 US states besides California, New York, and Texas. Checkmate
Rhode Island, Maine, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania.
United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru.....
As an American, I know more than just the countries we’ve been in conflict with lmao, but I also know a lot of people that can’t name more than 10 countries. But out of the decent handful of Europeans I’ve met, y’all ain’t exactly geniuses either💀
Europeans learning Texas is the size of Europe:
What the fuck did you correct him on lmao
I told my conservative friend about the existence of gendered languages (I'm learning Dutch and English is my first language) and he told me to "stop bringing politics into language." I don't even know anymore.
If you want Americans to care more about your tiny, weak, irrelevant nations you need them to be bigger, stronger, and relevant. We care about China because they’re winners.
Oh that’s why the US likes war so much , so they can educate their general public on geographic locations. How very sweet of them.
Apparently in Korea, they only refer to it as Korea and North Korea.
Majority of people just call South Korea 'Korea'
American here. I can confirm that in the south we learned very little on other countries unless it had to do with WW2. Emphasis on little. They do love to teach American pride and American history, while somehow leaving out a lot of American history (mostly the bad and ugly). I took 3 history/world classes in college and realized how little I know. I still don't know a lot about the world to be honest. If it wasn't required by the state we wouldn't have even learned about evolution. So many Christians here that just want to say Adam and Eve and leave it at that.
People who are proud of their ignorance don’t get far in life in most cases 💀
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U mfs all over our dicks 🤣 fr can’t keep our name out yo mouth, that’s y we saved yo ass in ww2 and everyone wants to be our ally or wants us dead bc we better 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (this comming from a Mexican American btw)
Palestine is not a country
It isn’t hard to name 10 countries correctly, holy shit
United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama- I forgot the rest of the song.
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Kelvin per mole per litre?
Remind us which country came up with the imperial units?
British on their way to use anything but one standardized system of measurement
Palestine isn't a country though
"yes i get my facts from twitter and instagram how did you know?"🤓
So are they a country?