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Originally Posted by Babaganoosh
No, I am not trolling. Not even a little bit. I can find more places on a map than most Americans because I have traveled since I was a kid. If I hadn't I can completely understand not knowing where irrelevant places are. Why would the average American need to know where the UK is? We can't get there by car. Knowing its location seems trivial to me. I mean, who cares?
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That would be fine if the world actually wasn't relevant to the average American but just being ignorant of the rest of the world doesn't make it irrelevant. Ask the troops, ask anybody that works for an international company, ask anybody that buys any goods manufactured somewhere other than their own country. The world is relevant and then apart from that there is just the desire to have a decent education in which geography is one part.