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Not even Lima, the capital? Is it not common to study what all countries and their capitals cities are called in school where you're from?
by phreack 3y ago
Not even Lima, the capital? Is it not common to study what all countries and their capitals cities are called in school where you're from?
- theshrike79 3y agoIt's not about not knowing the name about the capital. It's about not hearing any news from the country ever and maybe not knowing a single distinguishing thing about it because they never come up in regular life in the western world. Like Cameroon, Gabon or Suriname. I know they are countries, but couldn't tell you a single fact about them.
- vasco 3y ago> never come up in regular life in the western world If you watch any kind of global sports like the Olympics or football (not american), you immediately hear about these countries. And if you live in Europe you also know a lot about Suriname if you're in the Netherlands or about Cameroon if you're in France, and by extension if you interact with people from there. Maybe they don't come up for a regular American.
- theshrike79 3y agoI know Suriname from Miss World (or Earth) competitions. But still, I couldn't name you a single fact about any of those countries past the fact that they have a name and they are a country.
- vasco 3y agoOkay but my answer was about these countries never coming up in regular life, they do come up! You not researching random countries that come up in life is obviously normal - but they do come up. I've pooped every day of my life, sometimes multiple times, and know almost nothing about pooping or pooping techniques as I never felt like researching it, for example. Frequency of encounters vs facts known are not completely correlated.