Thread 216725460

Could the average poor American, think your average ghetto BBC or somebody from the rust belt point to 5 countries on a map? Could be any countries as long as they get it correct

>>216725460 (OP)
Not even rich americans can do this

we don't care about that stuff, most people can name all states tho

>>216725460 (OP)
Those people are below average thoughbeit

>>216725460 (OP)
USA, Canada, Mexico are freebies.
Most Americans know what Italy looks like. that gets you 4. the 5th may be challenging, as they'd likely point at Africa thinking it was a country, or have no idea where any other country is.

>>216725460 (OP)
I concede that most of my fellow countrymen are both geographically ignorant and disinterested, but the map-inclined minority isn’t strictly confined to the upper classes. Only a limited number of people on any socioeconomic stratum will be able to do this well, but I suspect that map autists are more widely distributed than you might guess. I personally know inner-city/ghetto black weebs who can tell you about the Tokugawa Shogunate, and people from working-class backgrounds in flyover nowheresvilles who can give you obsessive details about the Ottoman empire and its successors after the Great War.

Meanwhile, I’m an overeducated child of the coastal middle class, and while I can fill in all the countries on a blank map, I doubt more than a few of my overeducated middle class coastal peers could do the same. My wife certainly couldn’t, and she’s richer and better educated than I am. She’s just disinterested in maps. She could probably get five, though.

>>216725460 (OP)
China
>Big country in Asia
Italy
>Shaped like a boot
Japan
>Animu
Korea
>Grandpappy fought there also hot nu Sailor Moon
Australia
>Big island
Mexico
>Obvious reasons
Canada
>Ditto
5 out of these 7 commonly-known ones? Yes, probably.

>>216727755
Oh, Russia, duh.
So, 5/8 are practically gimmes.