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I'm sitting here chuckling because you felt the need to post this. Your points are valid. And there probably are plenty of Americans who needed the correction.
by alistairSH 2mo ago
I'm sitting here chuckling because you felt the need to post this.
Your points are valid. And there probably are plenty of Americans who needed the correction. But still.
- outside2344 2mo agoHonestly at this point it is usually the Europeans that need this (I have been asked if Chile has good tacos from a European). At least in my experience, most USians (in spanish Americans means everyone in the hemisphere) now know more about South America than the average European. (Which is to be expected, proximity and all)
- mminer237 2mo agoWe aren't speaking Spanish. "American" means a citizen of the USA in English.
- alistairSH 2mo agoEsta página es de nivel internacional.
- alistairSH 2mo agoOr maybe, more correct for this thread, "Esta página é de nível internacional."
- DanielHB 2mo agoI have a german last name, do you know how often people outside Brazil act weird when they learn I am Brazilian? My grandparents came to Brazil right after WW1 way before the Nazis came to power. High ranking Nazis fled to south america because there were a lot of germans living there already. Nearly all german people who moved to south america did it way before WW2. I just run into this stuff a lot living in Europe.
- throwaway2037 2mo ago> I have a german last name, do you know how often people outside Brazil act weird when they learn I am Brazilian? I am surprised by this in the 2020s. Supermodel Gisele Bündchen is probably the world's most famous German-heritage Brazillian. She has been famous for at least 20 years.
- saaaaaam 2mo agoI am not that familiar with her but had no idea she is Brazilian. I assumed she was German.
- hbn 2mo agoWhy are Americans in particular expected to know details about every country on Earth? Do you think Canadians know all these facts about Brazil? Do Indians? Or Swedes? It's only Americans that are smugly called ignorant for not knowing about the entire world.
- dieortin 2mo agoNot details, but at least having a basic notion of where countries are located. Everyone should be expected to know, for example, that Mexico and Spain are two different countries that are located in different continents. Yet it’s always people from the same country referring to one by the name of the other. https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2015/10/22/why-are-u-s-students-bad-at-geography/ https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2015/10/22/why...
- hbn 2mo agoYou're giving way too much credit to the rest of the world if you think most people know stuff like that.
- alistairSH 2mo agoBecause the US almost always scores behind its peer nations when its citizens are quizzed on generic geography.
- throwaway2037 2mo agoI will offer a reasonable alternative explanation: For large, high population countries, it is one of the most geographically isolated.
- chermi 2mo agoTake the perspective of a non-US person. Regardless of country, almost universally, they will know more about the US than an American knows about their county. It kind of comes with being the most important and biggest cultural exporting country. So every foreign individual justifiably sees the asymmetry in knowledge. I think that that answers your question? Of course, I agree that it's kind of impossible for an American to have the level of knowledge required to make it symmetric, because the asymmetry of the setup.
- bee_rider 2mo agoI think 2) in particular makes some bits of the story evident that, at least, weren’t so obvious to me. I’m not well informed about the geography of the Amazon. For example, if Manaus is reasonably built up, I guess the hotel situation was mostly Spirit cheaping out rather than a limit on the actual hotel capacity of the town.