On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 09:49:21 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 12:45:46 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>> On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 10:04:55 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>>
>> >On 3/20/2021 4:27 PM, Bruce wrote:
>> >>
>> >> People often make the mistake of thinking that factual knowledge has
>> >> anything to do with intelligence.
>> >>
>> >That's true. Naturally, you know a lot about Belgium. I was just being
>> >honest with what I (didn't) know. Knew it was in Europe but nothing else
>> >about it. I looked on my map and see where it is now. I've learned
>> >something.
>> >
>> >Unless I google, I still know nothing about Belgium...their history and
>> >whatever. I was never taught that in school. Joan googles it first,
>> >then laughs about what I didn't know.
>> >Oh well Everyone is an expert these days on the internet.
>> I'm not surprised you know little about Belgium. I'm only surprised
>> that you think it used to be part of the communist block ("eastern").
>> But maybe you didn't think that.
>
>I used to think that Americans couldn't possibly be as bad as Europeans
>make them out to be. Now I know better.
>
I always compare it to the US states. You'll have a hard time finding
a European who can point at more than 1 or 2 US states on a map.

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