On Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 1:09:16 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
> 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.

Fair enough. I'm pretty good with Canadian provinces, but not with
Australian states/territories.

And I'm nearly hopeless with anything since about 1975. My mental
map of the world still has a big chunk labeled "U.S.S.R."

Cindy Hamilton