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40 Times Individuals Demonstrated A Stunning Lack Of Knowledge In Geography
Interview With Expert
We’ve gathered some of the worst examples of folks being deeply ignorant about other counties and still posting their thoughts online. From lacking even the simplest idea of geography to having nonsensical ideas about other places, some people should perhaps open up a map at least once.
We also got in touch with travel writer and adventure Vicky from vickyflipfloptravels.com and she was kind enough to answer some of our questions about travel as a way to expand your mind. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote the worst examples and be sure to share your own experiences in the comments below.
More info: Vickyflipfloptravels.com
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#1
Africa Is So Confusing
Auntriarch 11 months ago
When we moved to Swaziland in the 60s, it was interesting how much of our mail had arrived via Switzerland
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#2
Don't Have A Cashapp
blixten1982 11 months ago
I (a Canadian) was just in the States and they still take your credit card from your table at the restaurant!! We've had the chip and tap here for a long time, and there's machines that they bring right to the table to make payments. Americans are so far behind on payment technology. We also don't have the penny in Canada either, and every time I'm in the USA I remember how much the penny sucks.
#3
Poor Indians
Chihuahua Mama 11 months ago
Not to mention that even if they were actually Native Americans, that doesn't change the fact that poverty on reservations is a problem
Bored Panda got in touch with travel writer and adventure Vicky from vickyflipfloptravels.com to learn more about travel, a fantastic way to avoid making a fool of yourself online, and she was kind enough to share some of her thoughts. First and foremost, we wanted to know what she would have told her younger self, if she could.
“Get yourself to South America! Pick somewhere to stay for a few months and settle in a bit to explore deeper,” she shared. Interestingly, she may have picked up on the region's growing popularity with digital nomads, who are flocking to the continent.
#4
Europe Is A Continent
#5
When You Try To Roast Europe For Not Being Knowledgeable Enough About Coffee, But Europe Has A Reverse Uno Card Up Its Sleeve
Howl's sleeping castle 11 months ago
Ngl coffee terms confuse me. But then I don't drink coffee or tea so I don't need to know them.
Of course, traveling is easier said than done, with any degree of comfort costing money. So we wanted to know her opinion on paying for convenience versus trying to make your money go as far as possible. “Whatever works for you! I spent years backpacking on a shoestring, staying in hostels, and always choosing the cheapest option.”
#7
Apparently Cleopatra Vii Was African American
Lucy Covington 11 months ago
Cleopatra was Greek. She was a descendent of Alexander the Greats general, Ptolemy I Soter, who was Macedonian Greek.
#8
America Is The Reason You Have Cars
#9
Lost Brain Cells Reading This Twitter Thread
“Now that I'm a bit older I'm happy to pay for comfort and will splash out on experiences rather than just watching others do them, or looking for the cheap things to do in a destination. Both are perfectly valid ways to travel!” she shared with Bored Panda. The important thing is to make sure you don’t end up wasting your time on unearned hype, expensive or not.
#10
It's Spelled Australia*
#11
That Awkward Moment When You Can't Tell The Difference Between The Flag Of Mexico And Italy
#12
Wait… Spain Is In South America?
Lastly, if you are afraid of ending up like some of these folks and want to travel, we asked Vicky to share some tips. “Learn a few local words, look for the best places to visit, and seek out some unique experiences too. Research bloggers who've been there and done that, and see if they have useful tried and tested advice that will make your trip go smoother.”
#13
For Pride Month, My City (Not In Lithuania) Mistakenly Put Up A Bunch Lithuanian Flags
#14
India Is Not A Location
#15
Says "I'm English" But Doesn't Know What The Right Flag Is For England? Nobody Could Be That Stupid Right?
#16
Well, Of Course You Can. Who Are We To Make Things More Difficult On The Road For You… Jfc
#18
Wait Until This Guy Hears About A Country Called Spain
#19
If Only Spain Existed
Annik Perrot 11 months ago
The best English teacher I ever had (without her, I might not be writing in English on this forum) was called Mme Lopez-Pino...
#20
Europe Sucks
Arnold Larkins 11 months ago
Germany being known for its car production line: Are we a joke to you?
#21
You Can't Be Serious
#22
Its A Part Of Europe Right
#23
My Favorite Country Is Africa
#24
Goddamn Europeans Living In Europe
#25
Australia And Its Harsh Northern European Climate
#26
Apparently Spain Is The Capital Of Mexico
#27
I Don't Think That's Italy
#28
This Map Has Two Australias
#29
How Many People Failed Element School Geography
Panda Boom 11 months ago
England... is an island? Why have I seen a few English people say this recently? Sigh.
#30
Is Not Good With His Geography
#31
I Guess Spain Is No Longer European?
#32
Thats Australia
Arnold Larkins 11 months ago (edited)
For the peope who don't know, the reason why they know its Australia is becouse of the building in the distance. Its the Sydney Oprea House
#33
"Canada Is Not In North America"
#34
Buts It’s Obviously Europe
#35
France In English
#36
Europe Has Worse Roads Than USA “Europe Is A Kiddy Country”
Laura ballam 11 months ago
you know what a real flex is? proper public transport making the use of cars less necessary.
#37
Rip Geography
ॐBoyGanesh 11 months ago (edited)
To be fair, there is a sovereignty movement here and HI is recognized as being illegally occupied by the US, by more than a few nations. So, ideologically (historically; technically?) OP is correct.
#38
Getting Offended Over The Name Of A Country
#39
Where Is He Taking His History Lessons From?
Diana Lucas 11 months ago (edited)
Not this garbage. I think whoever thinks the US is one of the oldest countries in the world must have skipped a whole lot of school.
WorkAholic1 11 months ago
I'm from the United States and I don't know what they are teaching nowadays here in the US, but back when I was in grade school (1970s), we were taught geography by using a map and pointing out different countries/continents. One of my favorite history teachers had every map pulled down. He talked about what was going on in South America at one point. He would walk over to another map and say "while that was going on in Peru (or whatever country he was talking about at the time), this was going on in China at the same time!" Made all of us realize that life/history isn't static. Anyone here recall when the Czech Republic and Slovakia were known as the country of Czechoslovakia? I remember having a hard time remembering how to spell that country on a test!
WFH Forever 11 months ago
USSR and all the little SSRs, East Germany and West Germany, Belgian Congo, etc. All on the large pulldown maps of the world in my 7th grade social studies class circa late 1970s.
J C 11 months ago
Well, yes, they do learn that here now sadly. How scary it must be for elementary students to learn why they need to know how to barricade the door.
Lorraine R 10 months ago (edited)
When I was in elementary school in the '50s, we had air raid drills, just in case the Russians came and dropped The Bomb on us. We lined up and went to the cafeteria on the lower level, then crouched under the tables with our fingers laced over our necks. During one of these, a teacher who I guess wanted to add a note of realism, called out , "Here come the bombs!" One little girl thought she was serious and started crying hysterically. Just a reminder that our generation lived for forty years with the threat of nuclear destruction looming over us 24/7, and why a lot of us adopted attitudes bordering on nihilism after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Darius S. (he/him) cis/grey 11 months ago
not this mind noise, gibberish, AI-'Murican c**p.. although i don't know anymore.. A school district removed the dictionary from its libraries because they weren't sure if they were afoul of the law for having a book with the word Vagina in it.
Upstaged75 11 months ago
People like that were definitely homeschooled by parents in a weird religious cult.
Adrian 11 months ago (edited)
A lot of Americans are so insular. If it didn't happen in America they're not interested.
M O'Connell 11 months ago (edited)
On the whole we aren't. This particular guy very confidently slept through most of his history classes. My high school history (in the US) lessons were 20 years ago, but we did spend far too much instructional time on (frankly) unimportant minutiae of the first hundred years of US history that could have been better spent on foreign and/or more recent historical developments. I swear we spent an entire semester just on the Revolutionary War, as if knowing who John Burgoyne was would have any relevance on our lives. I would rather have learned about Italian unification, or the collapse of the Soviet Union and formation of the EU, neither of which were mentioned AT ALL.
Adrian 11 months ago (edited)
Fair comment and I just edited my post to "A lot of Americans..." As a Brit living in California I'm surprised how little about what goes on outside the US the average American is aware of. My favorite is meeting a girl and telling her I'm from near Plymouth, where the Mayflower sailed from and she replied, "Oh, did they call it Plymouth in England, too?"
The Darkest Timeline 11 months ago
It doesn’t matter what gets taught when people refuse to learn
FatKidShakeDown 11 months ago (edited)
Assimilation. They teach us to pass tests that determine their funding. It's pretty gross.
Regina Holt 11 months ago
Yup, FatKid, they are teaching kids to memorize stuff that will be on a standardized test. No real knowledge, no critical thinking,
Arnold Larkins 11 months ago
That slavery is good. Source: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/florida-board-of-education-black-history-slavery
Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 11 months ago
We're not going to make it. Are we? We're not. We're going to keep getting dumber and dumber and dumber... ignorance based wars. Slowly kill ourselves off. Making more and more garbage until we fulfill the Wall-E prophecy.
Lost Penny 11 months ago
Forget schools! I am more concerned about what they add to their water supply.
Tina Harnish 11 months ago
Didn't you know? They don't. They don't teach about cultures, they're busy trying to throw out a whole lot of books...how can they learn anything. They want to put their heads in the sand, unlike ostriches.
Downunderdude 11 months ago
They seem to teach toxic jingoism there - and doing it well, apparently.
Karen Krause 11 months ago
I'm not sure what they teach now, but when I was in school, none of this sh*t.
Marie Dahme 11 months ago
Oh dear God, are these the future leaders of our country ? Seriously, rest of the world... NOT all Americans are this stupid !!!
flower petals 11 months ago
Absolutely not! But staggering amounts seem to be. And they’re allowed to do things like breed and vote.. 😶
Load More Replies... Aliaksadr Lukauski 11 months ago
Mb we should colonize again, just give them some books and teachers then leave?
ElfVibratorGlitter 11 months ago
What? What? Absolutely not. Europeans DESTROYED the people and culture that they colonized, especially in the Americas. And all the continents were formed at roughly the same time as they were a super continent called pangea. That have moved bc of plate tectonics over millions of years WAY before people.
Mimi La Souris 11 months ago
Technically, unless this has changed since, I learned at school that the first inhabitants of the American continent arrived through the Beiring Strait, so Americans cannot be the oldest peoples on earth. but here too it takes some knowledge
Regina Holt 11 months ago
Please tell me this isn't real. Seriously, please tell me this isn't real!!!
CanadianDimes 11 months ago
Okay so by this logic, East African countries are the oldest in the world with literally the entire span of human history going back 2.5 million years for our genus (which, by definition, is human, regardless of the species). 30,000 has nothing on that!
Mavis 11 months ago
I know it's all ridiculous, but just what do they mean by Italy 1861/1946 and Germany 1871/1949?
Fack Suckerberg 11 months ago
He is just right saying the US is older than Germany as a nation since German empire founded 1871 and current Germany 1949.
Load More Replies... ElfVibratorGlitter 11 months ago
Later than that. I was born in WEST Germany in 1986. Not the same Germany it is today.
PFD 11 months ago
He should have gone with 1991 for Germany. What's the point in playing these games if you won't commit?
Stardust she/her 11 months ago
And here I was thinking the patriotic aunties here were way off when talking about our history
ERMAHGERD DINOSAURS 10 months ago
I truly think this is just too f***ing stupid to actually be real…if it is, we need to find a way to ban people from driving or procreation if they score a negative IQ test 😳
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Partime lobster🦞 11 months ago
Something I have also seen alot of online is people not thinking that Georgia is a country and that it’s only a state
Tempest 11 months ago
Georgia, South Africa, Austria, and Spain are crying in unison.
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neytjie 11 months ago
People are so ignorant about Africa and South Africa. Someone once asked me how I was online since he thought we didn't have internet in SA. How do you have internet but no houses he stupidly asked
Laugh or not 11 months ago
Don't you live in a mudhouse and run from lions when you go to school? (Heavy sarcasm, in case it wasn't clear.)
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UpupaEpops 11 months ago
I'm in Eastern Europe (and an EU member state) and have been asked if we have electricity and hot water. 😭
ADZ 11 months ago
I think it was George Calin: "Think of the dumbest person you know, now understand 50% are dumber than that".
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devotedtodreams 11 months ago
When my Mom left Switzerland to follow my Dad back to the US, she often had to correct people that no, she wasn't from Sweden, but from Switzerland. She blamed it on the "Sw" at the beginning - and maybe folks just weren't paying enough attention to what she was saying, lol!
Sue Ellen Jensen 11 months ago
I get it! I once had to correct a coworker that thought Swedish was spoken in Switzerland!
Jamie Williams 11 months ago
What amazes me is these younger folks who don't know what Google Earth is. I get they don't use paper maps or globes anymore, but the world is literally at your fingertips.
censorshipsucks 11 months ago
I couldn't finish reading this. I have concluded that the USA's primary failure is a lack of geography knowledge.
Papa 11 months ago
Thank you for your insightful observation. We are all eternally grateful, and will immediately start working to fix that.
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Poultry Geist 11 months ago
I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh, people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future. For our children.
ADZ 11 months ago
Come on, post Covid-19 I'm Australia apparently we're fake, this shot is craziest.
Anony Mouse 11 months ago
You could have used this to recycle some of the ignorant bi-weekly anti-USA posts. Like the unintelligent people who think we only have one type of cheese and have never heard of electric kettles.
Stardust she/her 11 months ago
A kid in my class had to do a graded project about Africa and he began his presentation by saying, “Africa is known for the Amazon Rainforest and the Amazon river.” Somehow he managed to barely pass. His friend thought Italy was the capital of Rome. The worst story though was when everyone in my class were arguing over the capital of Manipur which they thought was Tripura. My teacher, my crush and I had to explain to them that Tripura in fact was a state and not a city
ZuriLovesYou 11 months ago
Yeah, I think I've lost enough brain cells for today. I'm gonna go find some wholesome sh*t.
adnap derob 11 months ago
Atom Games Entertainment app, World Geography. You can learn countries, capitols, flags and much more. I knew my geography knowledge was lacking so I used this app and now I'm confident my world geography knowledge.
Partime lobster🦞 11 months ago
Something I have also seen alot of online is people not thinking that Georgia is a country and that it’s only a state
Tempest 11 months ago
Georgia, South Africa, Austria, and Spain are crying in unison.
Load More Replies... neytjie 11 months ago
People are so ignorant about Africa and South Africa. Someone once asked me how I was online since he thought we didn't have internet in SA. How do you have internet but no houses he stupidly asked
Laugh or not 11 months ago
Don't you live in a mudhouse and run from lions when you go to school? (Heavy sarcasm, in case it wasn't clear.)
Load More Replies... UpupaEpops 11 months ago
I'm in Eastern Europe (and an EU member state) and have been asked if we have electricity and hot water. 😭
ADZ 11 months ago
I think it was George Calin: "Think of the dumbest person you know, now understand 50% are dumber than that".
Load More Replies... devotedtodreams 11 months ago
When my Mom left Switzerland to follow my Dad back to the US, she often had to correct people that no, she wasn't from Sweden, but from Switzerland. She blamed it on the "Sw" at the beginning - and maybe folks just weren't paying enough attention to what she was saying, lol!
Sue Ellen Jensen 11 months ago
I get it! I once had to correct a coworker that thought Swedish was spoken in Switzerland!
Jamie Williams 11 months ago
What amazes me is these younger folks who don't know what Google Earth is. I get they don't use paper maps or globes anymore, but the world is literally at your fingertips.
censorshipsucks 11 months ago
I couldn't finish reading this. I have concluded that the USA's primary failure is a lack of geography knowledge.
Papa 11 months ago
Thank you for your insightful observation. We are all eternally grateful, and will immediately start working to fix that.
Load More Replies... Poultry Geist 11 months ago
I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh, people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future. For our children.
ADZ 11 months ago
Come on, post Covid-19 I'm Australia apparently we're fake, this shot is craziest.
Anony Mouse 11 months ago
You could have used this to recycle some of the ignorant bi-weekly anti-USA posts. Like the unintelligent people who think we only have one type of cheese and have never heard of electric kettles.
Stardust she/her 11 months ago
A kid in my class had to do a graded project about Africa and he began his presentation by saying, “Africa is known for the Amazon Rainforest and the Amazon river.” Somehow he managed to barely pass. His friend thought Italy was the capital of Rome. The worst story though was when everyone in my class were arguing over the capital of Manipur which they thought was Tripura. My teacher, my crush and I had to explain to them that Tripura in fact was a state and not a city
ZuriLovesYou 11 months ago
Yeah, I think I've lost enough brain cells for today. I'm gonna go find some wholesome sh*t.
adnap derob 11 months ago
Atom Games Entertainment app, World Geography. You can learn countries, capitols, flags and much more. I knew my geography knowledge was lacking so I used this app and now I'm confident my world geography knowledge.
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