>In the video posted on October 26, TikToker Sabriena Abrre asked people not to call her a “stupid American” as she admitted her mistake. “Everybody knows that Alaska is cold,” she said. “But did I know that it was connected by land? No. I did not know that.”
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Lady, you’re a TikToker who looks to be at least in your mid 20s from the US. You’re not some 10 year old in in the middle of bumphuck rural Podunk, Flyover Statesota from the 1920s. Even if you were from some bomb to hell 3rd world country where we get our cheap shoes made, you still would have seen a world map at some point in your life. So you got 2 choices; either call yourself out for being an idiot, or get used to being called a blind idiot.
I was watching an old episode of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader and this lady got the following question wrong: True or false, the United States is a continent.
I’m on vacation in the Caribbean right now. Told a couple from Pittsburgh that I’m from Toronto, they didn’t know where that was. I told them Canada, their response: “I’ve heard of Canada”. FROM PITTSBURGH. SMH
Every classroom I ever went into from 2005-2016 had at least one world map either as a wall poster or you could pull it down like a projector screen. Math, science, English, Spanish, Computer science. They all had a world map. How you could not learn the map though boredom and osmosis is beyond me. I stared at the map for 12 years.
We had multiple classroom activities on different types of maps and how they skew the sizes of countries. It really gets on my nerves how people say American schools aren’t good but they teach just about everything the internet says they don’t. People are just to stupid to remember.
Back in 93 I was planning a trip to Hawaii with my girlfriend of the time. My sister inquired if we were going to swing over and visit Alaska while we’re down there? I was confused, I asked her to clarify. She said that I should visit Alaska since I was going all the way down there to visit Hawaii. She thought that the map insets were their actual geographical location. To be clear she’s six and half years my senior, was a teacher at the time, and now holds two doctorates. I still remind her every now and than.
NearRequired says
1/5th of Americans can’t locate the U.S. on a world map
perpetualstewdotcom says
Is “random woman doesn’t know something” really worth an article?
supercyberlurker says
Next you’ll tell me there’s an interstate highway in Hawaii.
*…wait.. there is?*
jitterscaffeine says
Wasn’t there a lawsuit some time ago where a state judge said that students weren’t entitled to be taught how to read?
Ohthatsnotgood says
They often show Alaska off to the side next to Hawaii and other U.S. territories which is where this confusion comes from. Still hilarious and sad.
SelectiveSanity says
>In the video posted on October 26, TikToker Sabriena Abrre asked people not to call her a “stupid American” as she admitted her mistake. “Everybody knows that Alaska is cold,” she said. “But did I know that it was connected by land? No. I did not know that.”
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Lady, you’re a TikToker who looks to be at least in your mid 20s from the US. You’re not some 10 year old in in the middle of bumphuck rural Podunk, Flyover Statesota from the 1920s. Even if you were from some bomb to hell 3rd world country where we get our cheap shoes made, you still would have seen a world map at some point in your life. So you got 2 choices; either call yourself out for being an idiot, or get used to being called a blind idiot.
JeromeVenkman says
I was watching an old episode of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader and this lady got the following question wrong: True or false, the United States is a continent.
Area51Resident says
Viewers not shocked to discover a TikToker takes no responsibility for her own education.
Bigsuge88 says
I’m on vacation in the Caribbean right now. Told a couple from Pittsburgh that I’m from Toronto, they didn’t know where that was. I told them Canada, their response: “I’ve heard of Canada”. FROM PITTSBURGH. SMH
jakemarthur says
Every classroom I ever went into from 2005-2016 had at least one world map either as a wall poster or you could pull it down like a projector screen. Math, science, English, Spanish, Computer science. They all had a world map. How you could not learn the map though boredom and osmosis is beyond me. I stared at the map for 12 years.
We had multiple classroom activities on different types of maps and how they skew the sizes of countries. It really gets on my nerves how people say American schools aren’t good but they teach just about everything the internet says they don’t. People are just to stupid to remember.
1BannedAgain says
Hello American woman, if you could step into a woodchipper so the rest of us aren’t inconvenienced by your wild commentary, that would be great
meatmechdriver says
Wait until she finds out hawaii isn’t directly south of california, nor is it enclosed in a square fence.
justinizer says
Do they not have globes in classrooms anymore. I’m not that old and went to a poor school, and we had them.
Stormygeddon says
Entrust her with Pandora’s box. There is not a modicum of curiosity or second guessing in that head.
clichekiller says
Back in 93 I was planning a trip to Hawaii with my girlfriend of the time. My sister inquired if we were going to swing over and visit Alaska while we’re down there? I was confused, I asked her to clarify. She said that I should visit Alaska since I was going all the way down there to visit Hawaii. She thought that the map insets were their actual geographical location. To be clear she’s six and half years my senior, was a teacher at the time, and now holds two doctorates. I still remind her every now and than.