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Rejected Fate posted:Huh, seems like a lot of those Americans thought that Kazakhstan was in Europe. Maybe because they know it's ex-USSR and they just associate Russia with Europe? A part of Kazakhstan IS in Europe, in the arbitrary geographical boundaries sense. 
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Peanut President posted:I just noticed on that last map the guy got Luxembourg(e) correct. A couple people got Luxembourg. One girl even got Andorra. Nobody got Liechtenstein, San Marino or the Vatican. e: or Monaco. I knew I was forgetting one. Also, I remain amazed when people my age don't know about San Marino. These are things that Carmen Sandiego should have taught you, it's in the original game even. PittTheElder fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Nov 28, 2013 |
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Peanut President posted:I just noticed on that last map the guy got Luxembourg(e) correct. I think the last guy was probably joking.
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Nov 28, 2013 01:11
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Even those guys that got Andorra or Luxembourg didn't bother to label Cyprus and Moldova 
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Nov 28, 2013 01:19
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steinrokkan posted:Well, Scandinavia is basically the Dakotas of Europe. You Yanks merge your uninhabited wastelands masquerading as states, and we Europeans will do the same. Hilariously enough, people from Scandanavia settled in the same area! (lots of us in the Dakotas and Minnesota)
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PittTheElder posted:A couple people got Luxembourg. One girl even got Andorra. Nobody got Liechtenstein, San Marino or the Vatican. what always bugged me about the tv series is that the one time they actually bothered to visit belgium, the only image they had was of some nondescript dude just pointing at Carmen Sandiego with his mouth ajar, nothing else i suppose that's marginally better than some hollywood movies depicting belgium as wholly french-speaking or the netherlands as german-speaking, but still
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Nov 28, 2013 02:50
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Plus the whole Borat thing. Borat's "Kazakhstan" scenes were shot in a Romani (Gypsy) village in rural Romania, while Hebrew and a Slavic mishmash stood in for the language, so the confusion is understandable!
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I honestly find those partially filled maps adorable. 
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steinrokkan posted:Even those guys that got Andorra or Luxembourg didn't bother to label Cyprus and Moldova Cyprus isn't Europe anyway  .
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Nov 28, 2013 03:34
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Borat's "Kazakhstan" scenes were shot in a Romani (Gypsy) village in rural Romania, while Hebrew and a Slavic mishmash stood in for the language, so the confusion is understandable! Do you know why they didn't just go to Kazakhstan?
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The Kazakhstani government was none too pleased with the Borat character, thought it was denigrating to their national character. I imagine that that wouldn't have allowed it. But on the other hand, if not for Borat, most americans would remain ignorant that there is such a place as Kazakhstan, so maybe they did win in the end.
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I feel like the Americans labeling Europe are a lot more embarrassing than the Brits labeling the US states, since those are just internal divisions and not actual countries. On the other hand, most people probably don't play games where they stare at a map of Europe for hours and hours for fun. 
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Rincewind posted:I feel like the Americans labeling Europe are a lot more embarrassing than the Brits labeling the US states, since those are just internal divisions and not actual countries. There used to be games where you'd get a blank continent and place the countries in it. It'd tell you how far off you and then make a total score at the end and I think one divide by country for per country average. Game was dope.
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Numerical Anxiety posted:The Kazakhstani government was none too pleased with the Borat character, thought it was denigrating to their national character. I imagine that that wouldn't have allowed it. But on the other hand, if not for Borat, most americans would remain ignorant that there is such a place as Kazakhstan, so maybe they did win in the end. I actually liked the ad campaign that they launched in response to it.
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Numerical Anxiety posted:The Kazakhstani government was none too pleased with the Borat character, thought it was denigrating to their national character. I imagine that that wouldn't have allowed it. But on the other hand, if not for Borat, most americans would remain ignorant that there is such a place as Kazakhstan, so maybe they did win in the end. That was their initial reaction, but they've warmed up to it a lot since; it's massively increased their tourist industry, and as you said, just put them on the map in general. Some of my extended family is Kazakh and they absolutely adore Borat. It's kinda funny.
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Rincewind posted:I feel like the Americans labeling Europe are a lot more embarrassing than the Brits labeling the US states, since those are just internal divisions and not actual countries. They're just internal divisions the same size as your country. vvv That is true; give a bunch of Europeans a map of Africa and they'd probably do worse than the US does with Europe. vvv computer parts fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Nov 28, 2013 |
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Everybody everywhere is utter poo poo at geography beyond their home region (and often they're poo poo at that too).
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Years of Paradox gaming have made me an exceptional expert at political geography.  At least on the country level, plus the US states and Canadian provinces.It would make my maps incredibly boring because everything would be correctly labelled.  Someone make one which tasks us to name the states and territories of India or something.
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 Yeah that went about as well as I expected. I even learned a bunch of them a few years ago and I still barely remember any.  Koramei fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Nov 28, 2013 |
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Nov 28, 2013 05:58
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GreenCard78 posted:There used to be games where you'd get a blank continent and place the countries in it. It'd tell you how far off you and then make a total score at the end and I think one divide by country for per country average. Game was dope. World Map is close. This one you just get points for finding the right country and you get multiple tries until time runs out. Globetrotter XL only gives you one try and gives you points for being close, but you're trying to locate specific cities. At higher levels they replace the political map with a terrain map without borders. Finally, Where on Earth? is basically the same as Globetrotter XL except you're locating specific buildings.
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Koramei posted:
similarly, here's how I did with China:  (labels were off initially) In my defense I got most of the outer/important provinces in one try and I didn't know there was a Shaanxi province and a Shanxi province.
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Here's an html5 map quiz, with a choice of regions, for those on flash-less platforms: http://www.html5games.net/puzzle/world-map-quiz/ e: drat, Africa is by far the hardest for me. I know the big ones but all the little fiddly ones are a complete mystery to me. Family Values fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Nov 28, 2013 |
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Mister Adequate posted:It would make my maps incredibly boring because everything would be correctly labelled. See what you do THEN is make disparaging comments about absolutely everywhere.
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Peanut President posted:I just noticed on that last map the guy got Luxembourg(e) correct. I thought the maps were going to be LOL DUMB AMERICANS, but they're not even that bad. They got Western Europe mostly right. A Buttery Pastry posted:Just give them a full world map, and a list of all the countries, and have them go to town. Not only can the map show where people are geographically challenged, it could also show which countries have managed to fly under the radar. West Africa and Central America would be the most difficult regions, I bet. Actually, I'm sure one of those geography games has statistics on this. Phlegmish fucked around with this message at 09:05 on Nov 28, 2013 |
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Family Values posted:Here's an html5 map quiz, with a choice of regions, for those on flash-less platforms: Yeah, I am horrible when it come to Africa. The rest of the world I can do okay with (even Southeast Asia and Central America [I had a roommate from Guatemala, which helped]), but beyond South Africa, Botswana, Kenya, and the Mediterranean and Red Sea coasts I'm completely clueless.
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Phlegmish posted:I thought the maps were going to be LOL DUMB AMERICANS, but they're not even that bad. They got Western Europe mostly right. I was pretty blown away that more people correctly labeled Croatia than Greece. e: Im not so surprised at Georgia though, I wonder when these maps were made? South Ossetia was probably in the news within the last couple months, so it would be fresh. Whats up with everyone knowing where Croatia is though? Seems random. Meme Emulator fucked around with this message at 10:08 on Nov 28, 2013 |
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Golden_Zucchini posted:Yeah, I am horrible when it come to Africa. The rest of the world I can do okay with (even Southeast Asia and Central America [I had a roommate from Guatemala, which helped]), but beyond South Africa, Botswana, Kenya, and the Mediterranean and Red Sea coasts I'm completely clueless. My first try This may or may not have something to do with the fact that I had to take a quiz exactly like this earlier this semester for a class I'm taking.
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Having actually tried the HTML5 link above, I find that while am about as bad at Africa as I'd thought, even that was pretty good compared to the Caribbean and Pacific islands. I couldn't even be bothered to finish those because I'd barely even heard of most of them. My scores: 
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Rhesus Pieces posted:Sadly I'm willing to bet a decent amount of Americans wouldn't do much better than this. Tennessee is his penis! 
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Golden_Zucchini posted:Having actually tried the HTML5 link above, I find that while am about as bad at Africa as I'd thought, even that was pretty good compared to the Caribbean and Pacific islands. I couldn't even be bothered to finish those because I'd barely even heard of most of them.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:All those tiny island really suck, since they're so small, and it's impossible to see which ones belong together. At least Africa is full of states with a variety of shapes and sizes.
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PrinceRandom posted:I think the last guy was probably joking.
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Meme Emulator posted:I was pretty blown away that more people correctly labeled Croatia than Greece. Croatia looks like a C, so it's easy to identify.
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twoot posted:They didn't. http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/americans-try-to-place-european-countries-on-a-map The Netherlands doesn't look like that  Not really fair to ask people to identify countries on a map that gets the shape of countries wrong.
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Golden_Zucchini posted:Globetrotter XL only gives you one try and gives you points for being close, but you're trying to locate specific cities. At higher levels they replace the political map with a terrain map without borders. 24.620 It gets harder when they remove the borders indeed, plus you need a reasonably accurate mouse.
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ekuNNN posted:The Netherlands doesn't look like that Belgium looks odd as well. I'm not even going to touch the subject of Austria.
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ekuNNN posted:The Netherlands doesn't look like that I'm completly fine with that, in this picture you got Emden
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Deltasquid posted:Belgium looks odd as well. It looks like they got back South Tyrol but then redrew the border northward instead of southward.
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Finally, we can put the age-old question to rest.
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 There's less people in North-America and Europe than I thought. Carbon dioxide fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Dec 1, 2013 |
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