USC Clueless Families?

[NickD 202]

everyone knows where brazil is.

Hard to miss Brazil on the map!

Agree and i like brazil coz of the arizona river....err....is it?

General impression is that South America like Africa was just one big country, where hot spice eating Hispanics come from with hot tempered women that love to throw pots and pans. Since Hispanics are from a Spanish decent, kind of leaves Brazil out as they are of a Portuguese decent. We love to pick on Brazil for converting rain forest, like it doesn't rain in Wisconsin to farm lands, but the same thing was done here. Once an heavily forested land converted into diary farms that are pumping in zillion of tons of methane into the air. But that's okay.

Have yet to meet a hot tempered women in South America, wife beating is far more common, knew my wife was special, but is taking the USA to get her to crawl out of her shell. And as for hot tempered women, they are here in the USA and can cream the hell of a guy in a divorce court. Ha, been there, and have been creamed. Ha, my neighbor thought my wife loved hot spicy food and made salsa for her, was a nice gesture, but she likes eating rice with chopsticks.

[tom&tata 2]

Well, some people have actually asked me if people here in Malaysia still live on trees. I am not sure if that was just a joke or what. Maybe I dont have much humor..

Too funny. My husband videotaped trip from the airport to my parents house the 1st time he went to Indonesia. They would not have believed that we have tall buildings & traffic jam if it were not for the video

But last Friday I was just asked if Indonesian is like Japanese? I said no, culturally we are different & physically we are not that similar either. Although when I added "Oh, we don't even speak the same language" - it seems to seal the deal.

[Heracles 417]

What the hell do they teach in schools here.. lol Oh I forgot, no time to learn about the rest of the world in a system skewed to how awesome the country is.

Then again, prior to this recent passport requirement for traveling to bordering countries, only 23% or so Americans had passports.

Edited February 2, 2009 by Aficionado

[Shad and Dani 3]

What the hell do they teach in schools here.. lol Oh I forgot, no time to learn about the rest of the world in a system skewed to how awesome the country is.

Then again, prior to this recent passport requirement for traveling to bordering countries, only 23% or so Americans had passports.

Exactly! Why should Americans learn about other countries if they already live in the greatest country in the world? Did you know "EVERYONE" wants to come here? At least that's the general opinion.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I suspect a fair few of us can't point out all 50 states on a US map. So I suppose it evens out...

[alienlovechild 75]

What the hell do they teach in schools here.. lol Oh I forgot, no time to learn about the rest of the world in a system skewed to how awesome the country is.

A lot of American classes are based on the opposite premise. They instill the notion that students know nothing about the downsides of the U.S. so they focus on the negatives. It is true that not enough attention is focused on what goes on abroad but you see that even the news coverage.

[anitacastillo 0]

What the hell do they teach in schools here.. lol Oh I forgot, no time to learn about the rest of the world in a system skewed to how awesome the country is.

A lot of American classes are based on the opposite premise. They instill the notion that students know nothing about the downsides of the U.S. so they focus on the negatives. It is true that not enough attention is focused on what goes on abroad but you see that even the news coverage.

Did you go to elementary or secondary school in the US?

One should not assume . . .

[anitacastillo 0]

I take questions about where my husband is from as an opportunity to educate family, friends. I always feel they are curious, not malicious.

[alienlovechild 75]

What the hell do they teach in schools here.. lol Oh I forgot, no time to learn about the rest of the world in a system skewed to how awesome the country is.

A lot of American classes are based on the opposite premise. They instill the notion that students know nothing about the downsides of the U.S. so they focus on the negatives. It is true that not enough attention is focused on what goes on abroad but you see that even the news coverage.

Did you go to elementary or secondary school in the US?

One should not assume . . .

Yes, I went to school in the U.S. If you came out of school being taught how "awesome" the country is, then your experience was quite different from mine.

[Sister Fracas 5]

Yes, I went to school in the U.S. If you came out of school being taught how "awesome" the country is, then your experience was quite different from mine.

Ditto...

Oh and the United Kingdom consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Great Britain consists of Scotland, England, Wales, and a few other surrounding tiny islands.

And England consists of well...England.

Not so difficult if one takes the time to explain it.

Oh, but P.S. some from Scotland, Wales and Ireland don't like to be called British, even though they are... LOL

Edited February 2, 2009 by Sister Fracas

[mox 298]

A lot of American classes are based on the opposite premise. They instill the notion that students know nothing about the downsides of the U.S. so they focus on the negatives. It is true that not enough attention is focused on what goes on abroad but you see that even the news coverage.

I'm not sure what you mean by "a lot," but any classroom that is teaching about the US in terms of general morality is doing their job poorly. You didn't happen to go to school in Kansas did you?

[Mo_Mati 2]

After having a stranger in public ask us if we were speaking "Mexican" and later pointing directly at my husband and asking "Well, is HE Mexican?" she was totally blown away when we said that he was actually from Chile. She pondered our claim for a while before responding "Is that like CHinese-Mexican?". How is one suppose to respond to that?

[Ontarkie 14,222]

I dont know about the other states but here in Arkansas when we went to enroll all of my kids we found out they dont teach geography anymore, they didnt know what to do with my kids geography credits

Edited February 2, 2009 by Ontarkie

[alienlovechild 75]

I'm not sure what you mean by "a lot," but any classroom that is teaching about the US in terms of general morality is doing their job poorly. You didn't happen to go to school in Kansas did you?

Better get with the program. Nobody is referring to morality and education. Try reading up a few posts to figure what's being discussed.

[Teacher Mark 53]

I suspect a fair few of us can't point out all 50 states on a US map. So I suppose it evens out...

Go see.

http://www.pibmug.com/files/map_test.swf