Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Can Americans Locate Asian Countries? | ASIAN BOSS" video.

  1. I think the truth for most countries is that we tend to focus on our region, and sometimes in our countries alone, from all perspectives - cultural, geographical, historical. I dunno how education is in other countries, but here in Brazil for instance, we have one long study subject that is about brazilian history alone, and another subject of the same average size that is world history. So you see how it doesn't match? You get the same time to study 500 something years of brazilian history from the time it got colonized by Portugal (and not much before that) to study world history that is highly focused on western history - so, mostly events around WWI and WWII, I think a bit of US Civil War, French revolution, few European wars, Middle ages... not much more than that. Perhaps a bit of Greek philosophers, egyptians, silk road, Mongol invasions. Oh, not to mention that at least part of world history is also focused on South America. So locals might be able to locate countries like Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Ecuador, etc... but unless they had some external contact outside school, they won't be able to locate countries like Chad, Myanmar, Libya, Thailand, Turkmenistan... perhaps even India, China, Poland, Norway. Some people might even have memorized the entire globe in school days, but you know, that's just too far back to remember. Honestly, I don't remember learning much on Asian countries, on African countries and on middle eastern countries in world history at all. It's just these tiny snipets of information that had something to do with worldwide commerce trade routes, past wars, or something in relation with the world wars, or that somehow has a relationship with brazilian history. I personally don't know much, and I'd probably fail a few of those questions, but whatever little I know of those countries I learned later on with the advent of Internet. And to be honest, I don't really take fault with formal education and whatnot. Truth is, there isn't enough time to learn the culture, history and geography of all countries in all regions in the world, there aren't even teachers that would know all that. The majority of people in Brazil and I guess in most countries will never have the opportunity to visit a whole lot of other countries anyways. Not that I think it's useless information, far from that, but it's too much to know and take.
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