• Nepenthe@kbin.social
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        Also American. I know where Germany is because I’ve had buddies from Germany, which made it useful information. Ditto Romania, Nigeria, and South Korea. I will remember X country when there is something of personal significance about it and apparently not before.

        I don’t know where Ohio is and will never learn, because there is nothing IN Ohio, and they know there’s nothing in Ohio because they’re still LYING ABOUT THE AIRPLANE.

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        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.

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    As a resident of Oreo, I can confirm that my state is tasty as fuck.

    I imagine Minnesotans would take offense to being called “Texas 2”. In both climate and politics, it’s the opposite of Texas.

    “Uh” and “Minne-sota” are the same state: Michigan. It’s the only state whose land is divided by a huge lake spanning the entire state.

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    1 year ago

    I’m just wondering how you mislocate “Virgin,” yet somehow get West Virginia right.

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    Americans are very sensitive about you knowing which state they’re from