![]() There's an episode of Friends (yeah, yeah, we all watch it sometimes.) where Ross gets increasingly annoyed because he can't even list all the states. As a UK native, I don't know where many of the states are relative to each other. So when people get snobby about parts of geography but can't do other parts, to me that is just saying "What I know is important, what everyone else knows isn't." Never mind the amount of time spent, most people lack a memory that accurate. I also get a little tired of geography snobs because it is exceedingly rare that someone can properly locate all the countries in the world. If you need to know where something is, from a countries down to a street, it is easy to locate. This is even more true now, what with maps online and so easily accessible. It is route memorization, and not all that necessary to most people. Thing is, geography is just kinda boring. He thought it was in Central America, near Brazil. I though he meant he didn't know where California was so I clarified. So I told him it was "Just east of California, and just north of Mexico." He said that didn't help. I knew there was a good chance he didn't know where Arizona was since it doesn't make the news a lot (the new anti-immigration bill non-withstanding). He wanted to know where various people he knew lived so he could decide if he was going to try and visit. Most know where the US is since it is large and in the news a lot, but often little more.įor example I guy I chat with online from the UK had visited Brazil and was thinking of visiting the US. Their geography outside of that area is usually fairly limited. Forgetting that America is bigger than Europe and knowing the correct locations of some states would be the same relative amount of knowledge. ![]() Europeans like to laugh at Americans because they generally know the correct locations of more countries.
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