15 Replies to “Honey, I Finished The Internet”

  1. My granddaughter’s most recent comment on Facebook was a rant against CNN for covering the Rob Ford story and why the U.S. wouldn’t recognize us for the good things. I explained to her that 99% of the people S of the N states don’t know where Canada is and have never heard of Toronto.
    I was impressed that this map proves me wrong.

  3. Jema 54 would be pleased to know that we are all Yukon.
    I think I could do better than almost all of them.

  6. I’m sure you and I both could do better than all of the ones that were shown. Ever seen what was edited out of Rick Mercer’s “Talking to Americans”? Me neither.

  7. What is so surprising is how ignorant Americans are of their own geography and history. It’s no big deal to draw a map of the US once one has seen one and really the major issue one should have is performing the 1:1 mapping of the area of the US on a spherical earth to a 2D map. I’m sure I could come up with a reasonable version of a world map from memory although I’m not very clear on the political subdivisions in countries outside of N. America.
    This ignorance isn’t new. In 1972 I wrote the MCAT exam and the “general knowledge” section was essentially all US history and structure of US government. It was my highest score being in the 95th percentile. It amazed me that Americans, since 90% of MCAT exam takers were Americans, could be so ignorant of what should be basic knowledge as I had made no special study of this area and just learned it through general reading. Living in Ontario at the time, there were some very irate potential medical school applicants who would rant about their dismal score in this area of the MCAT and how it would affect their medical school admission chances. Their mood wasn’t made any better when I showed them my score in that particular section of the exam and had more than one comment that I should move to the US.

  9. Try drawing Quebec. And no, it’s not a snail crawling up the side of a bottle of wine on top of a package of Gallois astride a wheel of Brie de Meaux.

  12. I would like to put a typical bunch of Canadians to the test with Canada. It would be much simpler as we have only 10 provinces and most are large and they go neatly east to west.
    Cut the Mercans some slack, 50 is a big number. Even if the borders were drawn in, it would be a bit of a challenge.

  13. Deb U bit….nasty lady, you stolt my line:-))))
    I’v done a lot of travelling in the good ole USofA, geeogrfee is not their strong point, but go to central American, and you can have some real fun with the locals and geography, many down there don’t know Canada exists, and that it is bigger than USA, and the look on their face when you finally get 40 below threw their skulls:-)))

  14. We home schooled our kids and my wife taught them a song that identified where each state was. The oldest 2 could name every capital and the youngest 2 about 35 of the 50. We were in Oklahoma once parked at a gas station. This was the day when we had front license plates. A middle aged couple stopped on the sidewalk in front of our car and you could read their lips as they tried to pronounce Saskatchewan…

  15. Grew up in a border town, and was accustomed, as a bare-foot youngster, to see Americans, skis firmly on overhead racks, looking for the snow. So really appreciated the cards that turned up in the ’80s (Kate: take note and reproduce if you can) showing the border as green grass and bungalows south of 49 and three feet of ice with igloos north of same.
    Reality is that Canadian students have to learn more about the US than American students do about us. Probably self-preservation.

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