Why are so many Americans retarded when it comes to knowledge

try me

Because Americans put everyone in the same schools. Unlike superior Germanic secundary education where dumb and smart kids go to different schools. So you can actually teach smart children something while the dummies are busy fixing cars.

>>69457565
that's a pretty retarded post, so we know which school you went to.

>>69457565
McFuckYeah slide me into some kraut school

The world revolves around America. That's all you need to know.

>>69457448
They didn't play enough Total War and Hearts of Iron.

Aced all geography quizzes in social studies 100% because of those games.

>>69457448
Which "geography" specifically? Do you think an average euro can find all their fucking tiny irrelevant countries on the map? No fucking way. So why should we care about them. Same with other continents. The average person probably knows a few countries close to his own and a few "important" countries around the world and that's it. It is just /int/ autistits have no better things to do so they are good at it.

>>69457448
how do you test this

>>69457543
name 3 countries

>>69457448
have you considered them simply being retarded in general? :^)

>>69457448
I'm an autist that browses /int/ constantly but I still can't find any Balkan country on a map

>>69458014
the only 3 letter I need to know are
U S and A

>>69457565
We used to have these, called grammar schools but they got rid of most of them

It used to be that 80%+ of people attending Oxford and Cambridge came from state run schools now the number is around 15% and most of that 15% come from the remaining grammar schools

Feelsbadman

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we'll just see about that

>>69458749
fuck I forgot about sporcle, I'm gonna do american states, will post results

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>>69459379
Did you miss it because you forgot what it was or forgot how to spell it? Either way great job patty.

Because no one gives a shit about anywhere besides america and israel

>>69459588
I just forgot it

>>69459379
Haha Wtf I can only get 20

>>69457448
Tbh I think burgers get way too much shit for that. It's obvious they don't care that much for geography of a continent that is not their own.
If you tested average euro's knowledge of the map of Africa or told him to name the states of USA they probably wouldn't know shit either.
>>69459379
Wew lad. When and why did you learn this?

>>69461132
Just via osmosis over the years

>>69457448
We never had a worldwide colonial empire, so our knowledge of Geography is mostly limited to the general US

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>>69461208
you're a smart guy

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>>69457448
Man, I don't know.
Geography was the easiest A in my life.
Even got to do a geography bee against the honors kiddies who actually study that shit kek
Thought it was supposed to be something you wing at.

>>69458014
>how do you test this
I made my judgement based on some of my interactions with relatives and other people I interact with daily

>hey, have you heard of *insert major incident here* that happened in *insert country here*?
>"where's [country]"

Sure I understand this if I was talking about some African or tiny island country like Trinidad that nobody has heard of, but I had people do this to me to places that are much more relevant like Ukraine or Syria.

>>69461344
tb.h geography is not about memorizing countries on the map. i mean it may come as a side effect of working with the maps, but no geography class will actually make you memorize 30+ fucking countries on the map. unless, like you said, it is some sort of a contest.

>>69459379
Don't beat yourself up, you got all the good New England states. That's what really counts.

USA focuses a lot more in USA facts than world facts it seems
Like some people might think that the tallest mountain in the world is Mt Rashmire
It's kinda like a country that jerks himself off

>>69461740
No one thinks that. Mt Rushmore isn't tall, I don't think it even counts as a mountain.

>>69461829
bad example, but i saw that in a youtube video and thought it was pretty funny
If you asked your friends and family what the tallest mountain in the world is how many would answer correctly?

>>69461948
I would be surprised if any of them didn't know It's common knowledge as far as I'm aware.
Some of the retards I work with might not be able to point at Spain on their first try tho.