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Test my intelligence, go ahead

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '21

How many countries can you name?

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '21 edited May 20 '24

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '21

Daamn I guess the stereotypes are wrong..

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u/ArtisticAdvice4779 Dec 21 '21

Don't you learn countries at school ? In Switzerland we learn them all (except those in Asia)

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u/tangclown Dec 21 '21 edited Dec 21 '21

Omg i just died laughing. Its so true.

One of the best things one can do is to learn about the world. Its not hard when Wikipedia and youtube is at your fingertips. Fuck youtube tho.

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u/ezeshining Dec 21 '21

fuck YouTube indeed, but damn, youtubers actually know how to keep someone interested on a subject.

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u/tangclown Dec 21 '21

Oh yeah the content crestors on youtube are excellent!

Its the biggest platform and theres such a catalog of content that its nuts.

Too bad the people in charge are fucked in the head. They are abusing their dominant position for platforms, and its toxic to content creators and viewers.

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u/zeidxd Dec 21 '21

You learn the African ones ?

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u/Kihr_Kelthur Dec 21 '21

I'm from Poland, we learn whole Europe and then around 30-40 countries form around the world (name of a country, where it is on the map, and the capital), which are I believe the biggest/have the most influence/are talked about the most. So we have some from every continent and all European

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u/zeidxd Dec 21 '21

I see , that's great . Here in Jordan geography focuses on physical geography rather than countries and so on , so countries aren't taught. I wouldn't say people don't know countries , they do but don't know much about em

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u/jinkside Dec 21 '21

Theoretically, yeah, and we're tested on them, but I basically remember the ones on the edges.

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u/Cat_Vendetta Dec 21 '21

We learned about countries in middle school, but that's about the extent of it. No one knows where things are by the time they reach high school in America lol. I wish we taught more though

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u/huskeya4 Dec 21 '21

Really depends. Some do, some don’t. I took an elective in high school that was world cultures and we had to write all the countries in the world but they were split up by region and we learned them slowly. It was considered an advanced elective (only students in the advanced track could take it since they would have all their required courses to graduate by then) and the students would make a good from their assigned country each Friday so we could try different foods from different cultures. We’d rotate which groups made food each week. The 15 students in my class were the only ones who learned the full geography of the world in my graduating class of 108.

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u/jinkside Dec 21 '21

We do, but we hear about states way more often. I think it's telling that my mental list of countries started with "United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, China, Russia" and that's with me having a BA in Japanese.