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An ethnically Chinese Canadian friend of mine once told me a story about his older brother in high school, where classmates had asked him where he'd been born.

He responded truthfully, "Wisconsin." His parents had immigrated to Wisconsin at the time from China, then up to Canada, then eventually down to where they now live, as his father is a university professor and was moving to different universities.

His fellow classmates heard this and asked, "Where in China is Wisconsin?"

He rolled his eyes and responded, "Down south."

So remember, Wisconsin is in Southern China.

Reminds me of what was basically my first troll, nearly a year and a half ago:

C-Man wrote:oh my god! somthing monumental is hapening here in the land of arizona... it's actually raining! i love rain!

YoshiEgg25 wrote:We got you beat.

Today in Illinois...

It snowed.

C-Man wrote:does it almost never snow there?

if it snowed here then i'de just about have a heart attack from joy.

YoshiEgg25 wrote:...Um...no...why would it snow in Illinois? We're right next to Florida, of course it doesn't snow here.

C-Man wrote:my bad! i'm not really geographicly inteligent. i didn't know where new york city was till i was 10. i refused to believe new york cause i though that'd be too obvious...

Macle wrote:Just posting to say the title is pretty bad and also to give a geography lesson. Illinois is below Wisconsin while Wisconsin is just below Canada. Not anywhere near Florida. +1 Yoshi. Good trolling boy.

lrn2geography

irixith wrote:

Limewater wrote:XKCD tried to do the same thing.

http://www.xkcd.com/850/

This really made me laugh. Clever. Very clever!

Yes, being American and very good at geography, in fact better at geography than pretty much everyone I know, I found this enjoyable.

I'm so tired of "conservative republican" vs "liberal democrat" battles. It's so unrealistic to think that all of the country can be divided into two large groupings of values, but it seems that the more these liberal vs conservative stories get told, the more they become a reality. People start to align with a side and take on its values, then they don't want to be aligned with the other side, so they define themselves in opposition to the other side's values, and then the two groups become so increasingly split apart and stubborn as to make communication an entirely pointless endeavour. I swear, as a country, we should all decide to collectively stop bickering over issues where we pretend there are only two sides to an argument and instead just duct tape some antlers to our political leaders heads and have them butt it out for dominance on television to make political decisions . That would be every bit as useful (if not more) than the current system and heaps more entertaining. I've got $20 on Newt Gingrich. That dude has one hell of a melon.

Everyone who grew up in the 80s/90s should know rudimentary geography thanks to Carmen Sandiego. DO IT ROCKAPELLA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuzc4jgwlT8

And an opening clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roiJizt8jxw
I always wanted one of those jackets

J T wrote:I swear, as a country, we should all decide to collectively stop bickering over issues where we pretend there are only two sides to an argument and instead just duct tape some antlers to our political leaders heads and have them butt it out for dominance on television to make political decisions . That would be every bit as useful (if not more) than the current system and heaps more entertaining. I've got $20 on Newt Gingrich. That dude has one hell of a melon.

I think that's a terrible idea, but not for the obvious joke reason.

Your system would be more entertaining, but it would also result in the successful passage of more legislation. When congress is arguing between two bad ideas, there's the possibility that nothing will get done. When they head-butt it out, they'll reach a resolution to the conflict. Then it's just a question of how we're getting screwed.

A Bulgarian graphic designer named Yanko Tsvetkov made something similar to this but better a few months ago. It's called Europe according to Americans

Just to be fair, he also did Europe according to Bulgaria, Europe according to Poland, Europe according to Italy, Russia, France,Turkey, Switzerland, and England. Check 'em out http://alphadesigner.com/project-mapping-stereotypes.html

The picture OP posted probably dates from the mid-90s.

The OP's picture just caught a whole bunch of love on Digg recently. It could well be older; Digg is good for making old stuff momentarily popular again.

For Spaniards the world is divided in two parts: Places you can name from memory and "lol this is hard".

The "lol this is hard" parts include Central Africa, the Balkans and the middle part of Asia.

Not too bad I guess.