meanwhile we laugh at Americans for not being able to tell where germany lies
I’m American and I don’t know where Ohio or Germany is.
It’s the chonky one in the middle.
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.
To be fair most Germans know where America is.
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.
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.
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.
(some) Americans are so self-important when they mention states being the same size as other peoples’ countries lmao. "Why should we have to point to Germany on a map if Germans can’t even point to le bigger Montana?
"It’s like, do they feel the same about knowing other big countries’ internal divisions? Canadian provinces? Russian federal subjects? Brazilian states? Chinese provinces? Australian states? Cuz the average subdivision in all those countries is larger than the average US state.
And people usually know the most important ones, anyways (Cali, Texas, Florida, NY)
The John Oliver bit will never get old for me.
which one?
Can’t find a good video but it’s the one where he names a country and places its name on a world map. Then shows that it wasn’t that country at all to show his viewers are bad at world geography.
That was a terribly unfunny explanation by me. But I like the bit.
That’s it! Thanks for finding it.
Talking about a location with a map showing where it is, then revealing that the audience doesn’t know geography / the place is not well known, because the map was wrong.
Is nobody going to mention the absence of Alaska?
Honestly, that’s how I feel about Kansas as well
the fuck is going on here
Fake ass Euro not comprehending small and weird borders
Every state looks the exact same
They should all be named Square
COUNTRY ROOOOOOOOOADS
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.
I’m just wondering how you mislocate “Virgin,” yet somehow get West Virginia right.
Fucked up that I still don’t know where Ohio is
It’s in the top right corner right?
This post does actually manage to get it with one of the like 10 guesses
Americans are very sensitive about you knowing which state they’re from
It used to be that Prussians, Germans and Austrians would cut you for confusing them for one of the others.
