Most Americans can name every country within 1000 miles of their home, outside of small islands in the Caribbean
Umm lets see, 1000 miles, so exclude Asia, Africa and Europe, exclude all of South America. Whats left, Canada and Mexico? Of course, if they live in the South then Central America and I've met many Americans who haven't a clue where Costa Rica, Honduras, Belize etc., are.
There is no way I would defend most Americans' lack of knowledge about the outside world, but I do not see a big difference in other places
Couldn't disagree more. Other than University grads, Americans know little about the world outside of America. Of all the developed countries, Americans probably travel outside of their own country, the least, . Only around 7% of Americans even have a passport, compare to over 50% of Brits, and 70% in Belguim and Holland. The excuse that America is such a vast country doesn't wash either when over 50% of Australians have passports and 19% of them travel overseas each year.
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