grimjim wrote:*Btw. Paris is located in Texas (just look on a map, you'll see).*
A poll of American school leavers a couple of years ago discovered that a majority couldn't identify their own _CONTINENT_ on a map.
They assumed it was Eurasia because it was the biggest one.
Otherwise, yes, Europe does have much stricter laws on amount of hours worked etc, France especially.
This is an extremely absurd statement and just goes to show most people what little knowledge there actually is in Europe about Americans in general.
If anyone can be bothered enough to do a quick run or two through google the closest you can come to verifying this idiots assertion is a survey from the national geographic society that asked various geographic questions from various countries. As for the amount of people broken down by nationality that could correctly identify the united states on a map, they were:
Mexico: 96%
Canada: 95%
France: 95%
Sweden: 93%
Japan: 91%
US: 89%
Germany: 88%
Italy: 88%
Great Britain:79%
Looking at that chart, I suppose someone like the poster would infer that Mexico either has the greatest educational system in the known world, or the largest concentration of geographically minded citizens. However, if you take into account the sample size of the survey you realize that there is a standard deviation of +/- 4 points which means that with the exception of Great Britain every country was able to identify the United States with relatively the same level of success.
That all being said, I doubt the poster could locate his posterior if it wasn't located so close to his neck.
Yes, his neck.
