• genoxidedev1@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Yes this one is honestly a bit apples to oranges-ish, I can kinda understand though because Germany is about the size of a single US state.

      Though it’s very hard to fuck up western Europe if you ever looked at a world map. Western Europe only has a handful of countries.

      Compared to a country of 50 or so states where only 3 have a memorable shape (California, Texas, Florida), one has a memorable location (Alaska) and NYC being a household name.

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      Sure but that’s only equivalent to an American knowing where Europe is, as a lot of US states are as large as a lot of European countries.

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        But they’re still states. States are internal divisions and only meaningful within the US. From an outside perspective there are very few differences between states, nowhere close to the differences between different countries.

        Similar to how we don’t talk about states or other divisions of china, even though there are probably divisions with more people than half of Europe.