dekedangle_rpfanon | #23 — Brown Goes Down

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I normally just use Google Maps. I have no idea how long it takes to cross the US or even where the states are.

Being into hockey has actually really improved my knowledge of US states! I no longer confuse North Dakota and North Carolina and I even have a vague idea where Tennessee is. /sadly typical example of the US education system

Where do you live in the US that you get North Dakota and North Carolina confused?!

Not everyone lives in the US...

Airt said they were "sadly typical of the US education system".

Oregon. By "confuse" I mean I tend to mentally swap their locations if I'm not thinking too hard about it. If I do think about them as actual places where stuff happened instead of vague geographic shapes, I remember that literally all I know about North Carolina is its Civil War history and location in the South and feel really stupid, but otherwise it's just kind of, "ah yes, that pair of North-South states right by the border with Canada - must be the Carolinas".

That's not even typical of the Oregon education system.

Just think of one set of them as Tom Wilson and the other as Michael Latta. (Kidding. Clearly.) I had to brute force memorize every country and its location and capital, as well as every state, and I think the provinces/territories at a young age, so clearly YMMV. If you want tips on how to remember locations from a former geography bee buff, I can offer some up.

I...don't think that's a typical example of the US educational system.

Yeah, I don't think it is.

NA

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

No, definitely not. I went to some shit public schools and basic American geography was definitely taught. Multiple times. People retain different things, but it's not something you can blame on schooling lol.

It sounds more like a mental quirk, like my inability to tell the names Amanda, Allison, and Britney apart.

Huh, really? I went to some relatively good public schools and the last time I remember geography being taught was in the fourth grade. After that there was plenty of history, which required a certain knowledge of geography to make sense, but not really any teaching of geography.

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.

NA

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.

The square and rectangle ones are difficult, okay. The really obvious shaped ones should be easy.

Tbh when I was younger I used to be really snotty about knowing all the states, and then I got older and realized there are SO many of them, and knowing exactly where they are isn't exactly relevant most of the time (it's usually ok to swap Mississippi and Alabama, or not know the tiny ones) and I chilled out about it. Plus there's all kinds of shit I can't keep in my head either, so...

DA

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.

SA

I graduated five years ago, though, so this was fairly recent.

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Ayrt

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).

Answer you don't really need:

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.

By the by, if anyone is like me and enjoys taking silly old-school internet educational quizzes and wants to improve their geography knowledge (of any region - find out which tiny island nation in Oceania is which today!), I'm bizarrely fond of these - http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm . These are also fun - http://lizardpoint.com/geography/index.php .

ooo thanks nonnie. My SO and

shit sorry for the double post.

ooo thanks nonnie. My SO and I like to get weirdly competitive about online quizzes, Imma kick their ass at this. :p

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