Truly aggressively stupid people. I live near the border, when I was younger we visited a town that’s honest to F a 90-minute drive away. There we had a conversation and a local restaurant with a group of people who were completely astonished to find out that we as Canadians have cars, we do not dog sled, we do not live in igloos…
These people were not faking or trying to be funny, they literally did not understand. Again… 90 minute drive away.
You really can’t make this stuff up. It’s just astounding how the US is basically a hermit kingdom with the majority of the population barely even registering that there’s a world outside the US.
I can even understand the geographic lack of knowledge, we all know that public education in America is extremely poor and the reading level of the average American is grade 4.
But the appalling part of this interaction I had, was coming to understand that they literally believed that the minute we crossed the political border back into Canada, the green grass, the sunny skies, the flowers all disappear as though it’s a game loading transition… and the landscape transitions immediately into a glacier-covered hellscape.
No amount of geography education can teach people how to think.
Truly aggressively stupid people. I live near the border, when I was younger we visited a town that’s honest to F a 90-minute drive away. There we had a conversation and a local restaurant with a group of people who were completely astonished to find out that we as Canadians have cars, we do not dog sled, we do not live in igloos…
These people were not faking or trying to be funny, they literally did not understand. Again… 90 minute drive away.
You really can’t make this stuff up. It’s just astounding how the US is basically a hermit kingdom with the majority of the population barely even registering that there’s a world outside the US.
I can even understand the geographic lack of knowledge, we all know that public education in America is extremely poor and the reading level of the average American is grade 4.
But the appalling part of this interaction I had, was coming to understand that they literally believed that the minute we crossed the political border back into Canada, the green grass, the sunny skies, the flowers all disappear as though it’s a game loading transition… and the landscape transitions immediately into a glacier-covered hellscape.
No amount of geography education can teach people how to think.
this kind of stuff really does boggle your mind I find