#23 — Brown Goes Down
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This is the twenty-third post of Deke Dangle RPF Anon, a community for all your ice hockey anon meme needs.
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From: (Anonymous)Geographic illiteracy has been one of those things Americans get dinged on for ages, though. Just googling gave me a lot of stuff. Mostly about Americans' inability to locate countries they're at war with on a map, but there was some stuff about US states as well:
"Even for U.S. geography, the survey results are just as dismal.
Half could not find New York State on a map of the United States."
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/0502_060502_geography_2.html
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From: (Anonymous)Then again, I've been out of the education system for a while now, so it could be one of those education standards that's completely changed since then.
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From: (Anonymous)My schools were so-so and no US geography after eighth grade unless you took the elective. The only non-US geography I ever got was Central American in Spanish class, and I learned my European capitals from Carmen Sandiego in the '80s (so guess how out of date half of them are now).
That said, I can locate all 50 states and also know the capitals, because it interested me/my dad and I have a good memory. On the other hand there are FIFTY of them and while I expect people to know the obvious-shaped ones around the edges (California, Texas, Florida, NY, etc) and have a general idea of the region they're in, I don't think it's that weird people can't identify a lot of them.
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From: (Anonymous)Weird. I went to a fairly shitty rural school (bad enough that parents will pay to send their children to a different school district) and we had World Geography my sophomore year where we focused on US/North American geography for a good third of the semester.
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From: (Anonymous)I graduated five years ago, though, so this was fairly recent.
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From: (Anonymous)I'm not American? But yeah, hockey is helping with my US and Canada towns. Especially when announcers keep talking about where certain hockey players are from (for example I didn't know where Nova Scotia was before hockey, or even that it existed).
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From: (Anonymous)3.5 days by car if you don't stop except for meals, gas, and sleeping. Depending on exact locations on the east and west coast, of course.
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