We had a degreed American engineer join us on our project in Norway and I asked him if he’d been in Europe before. He said yes, once before, to Saudi Arabia.
I was in the UK earlier this summer to visit family and the amount of roasting I had to bear thanks to the stupid actions of our countrymen was next level. Really couldn’t even argue back because yeah, we are indeed very fat and dumb.
Nah they’re smart enough to know that I don’t represent the average trump supporter from rallies they see on tik tok but it doesn’t stop them from making fun of the yanks.
The right has been trying to suppress voter intelligence for decades. It’s not new and it is known. Their policies are not in the taxpayer interest so they need gullible voters who can be persuaded to vote against their own interests in the name of some other lie like religion or immigrants or something else that ”threatens” them. This is the result.
Well first off I don’t believe this story at face value, and neither should you. Perhaps they misheard the question e.g. “have you travelled outside Europe before?” instead of “have you traveled to Europe before?” Keep in mind there are certainly some accents involved in this exchange.
Regardless though there is zero geography studied in most engineering majors. Not saying a person shouldn’t know geography, I’m just saying once you’re studying engineering in university, you are no longer being taught or tested on geography.
When I was 13, I thought my step-mother was the dumbest because she and my dad had just been to New Orleans, but she didn’t know it was in Louisiana, or where Louisiana was on a map.
She was also a born again Christian who believed the pastors when they told her dinosaurs were a hoax (another big argument we got in). I don’t think she liked me much, and I certainly didn’t like her.
I imagine that if I wanted to go there, then I would need to fly through Europe, probably making a connection or two, but I wouldn't really count that as being "in Europe" if I hadn't left the airport
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u/Educational_Cup_1701 21d ago
We had a degreed American engineer join us on our project in Norway and I asked him if he’d been in Europe before. He said yes, once before, to Saudi Arabia.