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[+] 28 points 1 year ago (7 children)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    When I moved away from Alaska, the first person I spoke to in Georgia was a fast food cashier who asked about my day, and they asked “How are you liking the states?” No variation of “Alaska is a state.” would get through to him, he just kept saying “Sure, but I mean like a United States state.”

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He presumably meant contiguous, but definitely didn't know the word

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    He did not, I asked specifically. I even said “Alaska is the 49th of the 50 states.” and he chuckled and said I was confused. Thankfully that wasn’t the standard, but I did meet a few more similarly confounded people over the years.

    Also the number of people that think Alaska is small because of how it’s shown on many maps is staggering.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There's a tweet going around a little while ago about an American who didn't know that Rome was in Italy. Apparently there's a Rome in the US and she only knew about that one.

    Do American schools teach their kids literally anything at all? How can you not know where Rome is.

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