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I first learned that Georgia was a country when Russia invaded 16 years ago. I found the headline very confusing and shocking at the time. I took it as a lesson
by furyofantares 2y ago
I first learned that Georgia was a country when Russia invaded 16 years ago. I found the headline very confusing and shocking at the time. I took it as a lesson and haven't been confused by headlines about Georgia since.
- spiderfarmer 2y agoWhere are you from? All kids in my country learn the name and position of each country in the world before they are 12 years old.
- mapimopi 2y agoI don’t think anyone but US people got confused by those headlines. Makes sense though. When there are two places with identical names, you hear more often about the one closest to you, so that’d be your first assumption.
- spiderfarmer 2y agoSome Americans can't even visually distinguish the two: https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/yikes-trump-campaign-confuses-state-of-georgia-with-european-country-in-new-ad-101727262980307.html https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/yikes-trum...
- 8bitsrule 2y agoWhere are you from? Many kids in my quite large country learn the name of 50 states and the capital city of each before they are 11.
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- spiderfarmer 2y agoAccording to many Americans, I'm from the country called Amsterdam, with the capital city of Copenhagen, where everybody speaks German.
- 8bitsrule 2y agoPerhaps you're hanging around with the wrong Americans.
- furyofantares 2y agoMaybe they taught it in grade school, I don't know. I avoided learning much of what was taught in grade/middle/high school. I didn't learn the US states and their capitals either. Of course if I had paid attention I probably would have just learned "USSR" at the time. But maybe that makes it even less forgivable since it was current events.