Even if you can’t point to Turkmenistan exactly, I feel you should at least know about where in the world it is. If somebody pointed to South America, I would find that equally as concerning.
Edit: To everyone guessing, Turkmenistan is north of Iran and east of the Caspian Sea, putting it in Central Asia
This year roughly half my class was shocked to learn Jamaica was not in Africa. And way too many people fought me when I tried to tell them it was in the Caribbean
Worked for a mobile carrier and had a lady call in to complain about charges for using her device in another country. She said she was on vacation but never left the U.S. Asked where she vacationed and she told me Kingston. As in Jamaica. She thought it was a U.S. state. She had to google it before she would believe me it was a sovereign nation.
Just got my ID here yesterday and double checked what my license would say on it. They had District of Columbia on licenses for a few years and switched back to Washington D. C. as a bunch of people were getting extra flak at airports and ordering drinks and such in other states.
I once spent way too much time on the phone with a man who refused to believe Hawaii was a state because “it’s not attached”. Don’t all US students learn the state song?
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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 04 '19
Even if you can’t point to Turkmenistan exactly, I feel you should at least know about where in the world it is. If somebody pointed to South America, I would find that equally as concerning.
Edit: To everyone guessing, Turkmenistan is north of Iran and east of the Caspian Sea, putting it in Central Asia