For The Americans - Geography Question About Europe

I think the extent to which I learned about Europe in High School can be summed up like this: "Yup, it's there."

Seriously, we learned about Leif Erikson (excuse the spelling if I got it wrong), and a BASIC overview of WWI & WWII. But, for the most part, my High School's history department was pretty bad. I learned much more during college (names of countries, capitals, important people, etc.) and this was also during the time when the Soviet Union was breaking up, so we also got a major lesson in the new countries in Asia.

Personally, I love history. If I had it to do all over again, I would have gotten a degree in History and/or Archeology instead of Business... But, thanks to my experience (or lack thereof) in High School, I still feel like I am playing catch-up when it comes to my knowledge of the world. It's so much easier to understand what is going on now (especially when it comes to conflicts) when you know what happened in the past.

What's the deal with all the questions about Denmark? I thought the topic was...For The Americans - Geography Question About Europe. Most americans probably know more about England, France, Italy, Spain, Germany and so forth. Reading this, so far it seems to be about Denmark, Santa Claus, the Cookie Monster and Jay Leno.
As for what Americans know or don't know about Europe, I think a lot also has to do with where you are in America. If you are from someplace metropolitan like New York or California or something, your world view may be a lot different than in say, Pigs Knuckle Arkansas or somewhere like that.
By the way...there is no Santa Claus...yeah I said it! What! What!

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Originally posted by monstah

By the way...there is no Santa Claus...yeah I said it! What! What!

Santa Says: Yo Bitch, shut yo damn mouth fo i shove a lump a coal so far up yo ass yo teeth turn black...and if you thinkin i bein a figment o yo imagination i come and bitch slap yo face and see if i be fakin then

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Originally posted by monstah

What's the deal with all the questions about Denmark? I thought the topic was...For The Americans - Geography Question About Europe. Most americans probably know more about England, France, Italy, Spain, Germany and so forth. Reading this, so far it seems to be about Denmark, Santa Claus, the Cookie Monster and Jay Leno.
As for what Americans know or don't know about Europe, I think a lot also has to do with where you are in America. If you are from someplace metropolitan like New York or California or something, your world view may be a lot different than in say, Pigs Knuckle Arkansas or somewhere like that.
By the way...there is no Santa Claus...yeah I said it! What! What!

The Easter Bunny is going to kick your wimpy ass.

Bring it Bunny!!!!!!

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Originally posted by DevilHair[DK

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And dont tell me that its because Denmark is a small small small country, like somebody once told me in here

I thought denmark was a city in colorado j/k

in my school we were taught world history and world geography, but not a whole of emphasis was put on it, so I don't know a whole lot about any place but wisconsin

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Originally posted by monstah

Bring it Bunny!!!!!!

The Easter Bunny is going in with its Panzer divisions.

I think a part of our lack of interest in history is due to the fact that a large majority of North Americans are more concerned with where they're going not where they came from or how they got there(thats just my personal experience)

Lack of knowledge of history just dooms you to repeating it

That's why im currently on Wikipedia.org reading up on the visigoths

In response to the orginal question:

During school, unless you take a specific course on Europe you most likely not going to learn anything about much of Denmark. Thats at the college level. K-12 grades are a joke for learning anything except two things: one, if your good at the educational system of learning, they prep you for college; and two if you aren't, the prep you for working at the mall.
Honestly, I learn more about the world from Tom Clancy's books then through K-12 and two years of college. It's totally our fault too. Currently, the oligolopies that rule us underlings have us fighting each other to impliment "no child left behind" policies so that everyone has the skills to fill out bullshit-level sales job applications legibly, not to mention we are just now starting to realize that our overwieght population of children in school might benifit from removing soda and candy machines from school property.
I'll admit that my knowlegde of your area was mostly learned from playing Age of Empires II and the History Channel.

there are places other than america?

thats fucking wierd...

When I tell americans I come from norway, they oftenly reply: Oh the capital in Sweden.. I doubt americans learn much european geography at school:P

Next thing you know they'll try to convince us there's a car section here.

i thought swiss was the capital of sweeden



j/k
i know its really stocktern





that was another joke

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Originally posted by DevilHair[DK

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If i said Denmark to you guys, what would you respond? What do you know about us people from Denmark?
Do you know our Capitol? Do you know where in the world Denmark is? Do you know what people from Denmark are called?
Without looking it up on the internet?

And no, im still not calling americans dumd, thanx for the PM you stupid fuck, its just a question.

woosshoes and you all are called foreigners.

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Originally posted by I-love-girls

For example, look at your own family name.
Tell us what it is and we will tell you whare you came from.
Or else tell us the family name of someone you know, that's much easier, perhaps.

My name is John David Henry ya ass.

edit: changed Name to name

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Originally posted by screwtape

Lack of knowledge of history just dooms you to repeating it

so we're... going to... end up moving back to america in a few years?

edit: consolidated posts.

Whether University educated or not (fuck you Harman) a lot of people are reasonably intelligent..but our culture is very insular, I guess for all the aforementioned reasons. However, just because a large segment of the American population chooses a career out of high school over college..doesn't make us dumb. The working class are the backbone of any great nation. I think you would be surprised to find how many people in America are familar with Scandanavian culture..i.e. the Mid-West. Most of the Dakotas and some surrounding states have big populations of Scandanavian descent.

a bettre question to ask americans would be this

"what is the capital of delaware"

unless they actually live in delaware... they more than likley dont know