Godstud wrote:That's American education, for you.
Here's a part of a popular show in Canada, where they make fun of this very thing.
I'm trying to put myself in the shoes of the people being asked.
I wonder if, even if it was something dumb, I would just roll with it. Like saying that Canada doesn't have shoreline. Obviously it does. But if a Canadian came up to me and insisted that it doesn't, I'd just politely let it roll because it's not worth an argument, and maybe there's some kind of maritime measurement or something that they regard as important that I don't.
And it occurs to me that I've had a few chats on this board about this, or something similar. JJJ once said that Chicago was full of crime because Trump said so, and that Detroit was full of crime on Robocop and it's near Chicago.
I corrected the fuck out of him on that, or tried to do so. But even though I've spent, what, a third of my adult life in Ireland or something; if he had said that all Irish people are extremely religious and never have sex outside of marriage—even though I've personally proved that wrong more than once—I'd probably just shut up and let him say that and not try to correct it.
I wonder if that's just a typical Americanism...I don't know.
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