"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 07:38:08 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 02:47:45 GMT, Charlie Brown
wrote:

Those are some stupid freaking people. I remember back in college, I
was working on a group project with this one girl who was reasonably
intelligent. THe project involved some basic knolwedge of world
geography and this chic had absolutely no idea where China was on the
globe. I mean no idea, couldn't even identify the correct continent
where it is located. That really blew my mind at the time. I didn't
think people with that level of education and intelligence could be so
dim about something as important and relevant as to where major
countries are located in the world.

Not knowing where Sri Lanka is I can understand. Not knowing that
North Korea isn't part of Australia is just plain dumb.

There are highly placed students in colleges who don't have a freakin'
club where their state capital is located, nevermind where another
country is.

I wouldn't want to mention his name, but prior to his ascension to the
presidency, we had a fellow whose only trip outside the United States
was to Mexico, despite being the son of an oil millionaire. You have to
have some interest in the world to know where countries are located.

My only trips outside the US up until three years ago were courtesy of
Uncle Sam and I was much too busy to pay attention to culture except
for the occasional R&R - even then, it was more a case of "Oh, that's
nice". My time in Australia was courtesy of Uncle Sam when we were
training with some SAS types.

I will be the first to admit that I am the prototypical Ugly American
in the sense that I could care less about other cultures - I'm just
not interested. I don't want to "understand" them, I don't want to
"know" about them, I basically don't want to have anything to do with
them. Cultural Anthropology has never been one of my interests. Other
than Ireland and a fishing trip to Cuba, I've never been outside the
confines of the US since I left the service and I have no desire to do
so.

Hell, I don't even like to leave the confines of New England and
specifically, CT, RI, MA and occasionally, NY and I get nervous when
I'm outside the CT state lines. :)

Maybe there are warrants for your arrest outside of those states?
Hmmmm.....???? :-)