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I was lucky that I had a teacher in high school that insisted we learned world geography. At the start of the year she gave us a map of the world with all the names removed and in order to pass the class we had to be able to fill all the names and capitals in from memory with only two mistakes allowed. We had to take it over and over until we could do it. At the time we bitched but it was a fantastic assigment that has helped me understand the world better many times over as an adult.
Limited geography knowledge isn't limited to Americans (I know a lot of British people that know where the UK, France, USA and maybe Australia are on the map) but we don't really value geography in school as much as we should.
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