*DED*

[fightingthecage]

The World according to America.

I. Am. So. Ded.

Standard Disclaimer: I'm pretty damn sure none of the Americans on my flist think this way. If you do, please make yourselves known so I can stare in horror at you.

If anyone wants to know where I found that, it was in a comment replying to this post in overheardnyc

Teen girl #1: Okay. Maybe I'm, like, retarded for not knowing this,
but...did you guys know that other countries have national anthems, too?
Teen girl #2: Duh! It's the same song, in different languages!

--Bay Ridge


Overheard by: Lysa

Overall just - BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!

ETA: Another one! HEE!

Comments

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

I may not be staring in horror at you right now mate, but certainly blinking, yes.

Umm...well, I can understand Americans not knowing the where all the European countries are located. I know because I've been to a lot of them and they're a lot closer to me than they are to you.

Having said that, I do know where a lot of the South American countries are too, and no, Czechoslovakia does not exist anymore. That would now be the Czech Republic. Slovakia is also a country in its own right.

I also know where Vietnam is, even though British schools don't teach about it because we weren't involved and I didn't take geography.

As for national anthems - well, yeah. Um, that kind of blows me away. Again, being European and living in a place that has three other countries as part of the UK, right next to where I live (and family and friends in every single one of those countries) - I suppose it would never occur to me that people wouldn't know about others national anthems. I mean, even without that - look at the Olympic games. Or any major sports event. The national anthem of the other team always gets played. Over here at least.

I dunno, it just freaks me out. I thought that was stuff that everyone knew. And while I know that a lot of Americans are nowhere near as insulated as my original post would have people believe they are - this sort of thing kind of makes me think differently, y'know?