Americans Asked To Name a City in Africa, Goes Exactly How You Expect It To

[OperationNumbNutts]

i'm gonna do you one better

not everything has to be taught. true knowledge is sought

it's wild lazy to still be saying "i didn't learn this in school" in the post internet world about the world...

True. But did you study on your own cities and capitals in Europe? Most people focus on what's in front of them.

 

[Amo Husserl]

Africa is irrelevant on the world stage

No.

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

Africa is irrelevant on the world stage nobody cares to learn about it especially in America

Africa is very relevant. Stay sleep breh.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

True. But did you study on your own cities and capitals in Europe? Most people focus on what's in front of them.

yes

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

yes

Sounds boring but ok.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

People always ask this in US but I want to see how people in different countries answer the same questions

I'm under impression that people in different countries would not have better answers

Nah, they know New York. They know LA and often other US cities.


The United States is on a pedal stool to most of the world

 

[Soldier]

Rome
Paris
London
Sao Paulo or Rio de Janeiro
Miami
Athens
New York City
Los angeles
Chicago
Toronto
Tokyo
Moscow
Mexico City
Cairo(Egypt)
Jerusalem


The most well known cities in the world
All other cities are irrevelant

 

[Illuminatos]

People always ask this in US but I want to see how people in different countries answer the same questions

I'm under impression that people in different countries would not have better answers

Everyone knows NYC, LA and maybe Miami.

When you’re a global leader people know who you are, not the other way around.

 

[ISO]

This is normal the result would be the same in other countries if asked on different continents.

They’d only know major American cities like NYC and LA and maybe ethnic enclave cities like a Somali in Somalia might know about Minneapolis.

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

most states don't have geography as a required k-12 course, that's how you end up with shyt like ppl thinking iran is an american state

10% of americans can't even find america on a map

If Americans Can Find North Korea on a Map, They’re More Likely to Prefer Diplomacy (Published 2017)

Most Americans could not identify the country in a survey, and those people tended to view military action more favorably.

www.nytimes.com

always hilarious to see the people who think iran is in the middle of the atlantic ocean like atlantis

 

[RadaMillz]

americans in general don't care about geography, heck you can show a blank map of the US and most will struggle to name more than 10 states.

 

[Ozymandeas]

My dad was Air Force. He's been all over.

I then went to a HBCU. They made us study the entire African continent

 

[Vandelay]

I know it's edited down, but Cairo is easy as hell to name drop.

 

[Remote]

Kinshasa
Cairo
Casablanca
Tripoli
Capetown

Off the top of my head. I’m drawing a blank on Nigerian cities but this isn’t that hard to name one.

 

[Eternally Jaded]

It's sad. Accra, Lagos, Mogadishu, Mombasa, Nairobi, Cairo, Aswan, Durban, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Addis Abbaba. Mad easy.

Yeah I went Lagos, Capetown, Johannesburg and Mombasa.

Not claiming to be worldly either but it shouldn't be impossible at all.