On 21/03/2021 17:09, 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.
>
My UK relatives all seem to have fairly good grasp of world geography.