3 ms·
In most EU scolarships, you're taught geography very long, even if that has nothing to do with your primary subject of study. I've been a European student (FR)
by ozh 13y ago
In most EU scolarships, you're taught geography very long, even if that has nothing to do with your primary subject of study.
I've been a European student (FR) who spent a year in a US high school so I see the differences between the two populations. Simply put: average world citizen is not very good with geography, and average US citizen is noticeably worse.
- ddebernardy 13y agoI second that. In EU countries I've lived in (a dozen), knowing European geography out of secondary school was mandatory, and I can name at least one of them (Hungary) where knowing the location, name and capital name of all counteies is expected to make it out of high school. In contrast, I've found it common to run into US citizens who can't place a dozen States on a map of their own country, let alone a dozen other countries on a world map. A few even had trouble naming, of all things, the two countries that the US shares land borders with.