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Originally Posted by Sarah_MaxCash
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.
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To THEM it may be relevant but the average American doesn't need to know how to find European countries on a map. That ability is trivial. Like I said, the US has a land mass greater than most of the countries in western Europe combined. Ask Europeans if they can find West Virginia or Oregon on a map. If they can't, chastise them and disregard their opinions. That's the holier-than-thou attitude Americans have had to tolerate for a long time.