This would be funny if it weren’t so scary… You’ll need sound though…
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November 25th, 2005 at 11:35 pm
I hope you dont include me with these people.
November 25th, 2005 at 11:50 pm
Leanne - of course not! The US is a massive country and these people are representative of only a small number.
The people in Farenheit 9-11 were similarly amusing though!
In England we have people who do not know who Tony Blair but do know who is winning Big Brother. There are people who have different interests everywhere but the US makes a good target for hilarity because I doubt you’d find anyone in Europe who would believe that Australia and Iran are interchangeable!
November 26th, 2005 at 2:54 pm
thanks and im glad you added there are people like this everywhere. the US is a strange place , I think it is due to being on the other side of the world and being such a large country, many people here dont even know their states and do little traveling outside the one they live in. Another thing…We dont take alot serious - maybe its because we are such a young country. A lot of us are first or second generation americans and as a society we are children in the world, trying to keep up with countries that have been around for thousands of years. Sadly, alot of americans think since we are so far away from everyone else we dont need to know what is going on there cause it does not effect us, but it will and does. That is why I look to people in other countries for opinions (like you) and I hope you will be patient with me for asking sometimes stupid questions cause really I just want to know whats going on out there.
November 26th, 2005 at 3:48 pm
I agree Leanne - and I’ll try not to be impatient. I hope I haven’t been… I haven’t noticed any stupid questions yet!
Living, as I do, on the south coast of England it is easy for me to visit entirely different cultures without having to get in an aeroplane. For Americans I guess that ease of travel only extends to Mexico and Canada and only then if you live really close.
People living north or east of the strip from Louisiana to Nevada have a massive and reasonably expensive journey to reach a different cultural area. In contrast, last year I drove to the Netherlands for a week’s holiday and then stayed a couple of days in Brussels on the way home. While staying in the Netherlands I visited, obviously, Dutch towns and countryside but I also took a couple of trips to Germany.
But despite this, a friend of mine has rarely been out of Britain and I know there are people in my area who have not left England!
And I, as a map-geek am no less guilty. In the Private eye magazine this week there was a ‘mock the stupid answers’ column which listed stupid answers given to questions on quiz shows… One of the questions was “Which European country’s capital city is Sofia?” Now myself and the person who was reading the magazine guessed correct; and the answer of “Palestine” really is stupid; but that doesn’t excuse me not knowing a major country’s capital city.
The answer’s Bulgaria by the way.
November 26th, 2005 at 7:04 pm
if you want to see some really funny but scary americans, you should watch the videos of the stampedes and riots outside walmart and other shops from friday morning.