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qarbone@lemmy.world 5 days agoMaybe it’s a US/EU difference, where EU people wanted to be more specific. I was responding to the incorrect claim that nobody uses the the term “eurojank”.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 days ago
I suspect that most Americans don’t know where Europe is, what countries make it up, and couldn’t point to Ukraine on a map.
qarbone@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That’s probably true.
Just like I suspect most Europeans couldn’t point out Mississippi or Missouri or Missachetts on the map.
Or even know that “Missachetts” isn’t a real state.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 days ago
It’s a bit different though isn’t it. Missouri is a state, an internal administrative district inside a country. I feel like it’s a bit different than not knowing where a country is.
qarbone@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Assuming you aren’t from Ukraine, how much did Ukraine impact your daily life/touch your daily awareness before it became a battlefield? Countries shouldn’t gain more respect just because they’re incorporated as a country, especially when it’s halfway across the world.
(Researched, via Wikipedia and WorldPopulationReview) Missouri has a population of 6.3 million and total land area of ~178K km; larger in size than countries like Greece and Hungary, and more populous than countries like Denmark and Finland and Ireland. So it should be less regarded than any of those countries because it remains a state?
My stance is: either you should believe any population center of a reasonably large size/population density is worth memorizing or you should just memorize the ones relatively important to you.
There are probably distinct provinces in Canada and China outperforming many countries, so why should they exist on a lower tier than a “country”, just because they were persuaded or “persuaded” to incorporate into something larger?