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JaxDad
Sep 13, 2013Explorer III
Veebyes wrote:
Now there is a huge difference between the cultures. The average Canadian's knowledge of world geography is usually far better than his southern neighbour counterpart who usually has little knowledge of what is where outside of the US.
But out of fairness I have to say there's a good reason for that. America's land mass is far more developed and populated than is Canada's, thus there's more to teach & learn.
As an example, we have a territory here (officially conjoined with a Province) called Labrador, it is almost the exact same size as Arizona (population 5+ million), but Labrador has a population of just under 30,000 people. That's about 0.006% the population of Arizona. Not exactly sounding like it would take long to cover in geography class.
When there's only so many hours to teach geography you can't fault them concentrating on their own backyard.
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