Knowing Geography doesn't make you smart, amirite?

i don't think people need to be able locate djibouti on a map, but they should 100% know that paris isn't a country or that spain is in europe. it's baffling meeting people thinking spain is near or even **in** mexico… wouldn't say it makes someone inherently *stupid*, but i agree with another reply that it shows your lack of interest in anything outside of the US

by Anonymous 1 year ago

>djibouti I have never actually seen that written out before. I love saying it though.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

ji booty

by Anonymous 1 year ago

> "...or that Spain is in Europe" *flashbacks to being asked why I'm gunning down Mexicans in Resident Evil 4* Though to be fair, the person who asked that was Mexican, and pointed out that they asked because the "Spaniards" I was fighting were all speaking Mexican Spanish, not Castillian Spanish.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

The same could be said about knowing that the Earth is round. It's not something you need to know for your day-to-day life. Something that you think is 'being nerdy' is just common knowledge for others

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It isn't about being *smart* but it says something about a person's lack of interaction with the wider world I think. If they haven't read a lot, don't know history, haven't read about anything outside their local sphere of being it tends to point to a lack of intelligence. Especially people who think things like Africa is a country, or France is in Asia or something. How can you even exist on this planet and not come across basic facts like this? Even just in passing somewhere?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Intelligence and memory aren't the same thing. Smart I'd associate with intelligence, whereas those questions are about memory, so I agree with you.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Smart no, knowledgeable yes. Ignorance is not a good look.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

To me, it seems those questions are less about determining whether someone is smart or not, and more about how poorly educated they are. In most of the videos I've seen, it's Americans who are being quizzed, and the point seems to be to demonstrate that American education is so insular that people know very little about anywhere outside the U.S. Maybe I'm misreading that? Unfortunately, many people equate ignorance with stupidity.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Let me guess, you are American.....So, tell me where Iraq is.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I used to draw maps and create alt history scenarios as a hobby, ik where iraq is

by Anonymous 1 year ago

But it does make you dumb when you don't know anything. Yes I'm talking to you Americans

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It makes you cool 😎

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Making fun of people for being dumb is just mean. Making fun of people for being ignorant can be funny. Always love videos where people try to act like experts on complex geopolitical issues, yet when asked where they are on a map cannot answer.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Correct. Knowing geography makes you *educated*, and intelligence is not required for education.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Japan, Jordan, Jamaica

by Anonymous 1 year ago