[WWI] Oceanic Geography

[Douglas Anderson]

I have always seen the US being knocked for the poor geographical knowledge of its citizens, but we have the same problem in South Africa. I have seen some people think that Cape Town is part of Europe and not Africa. 
  Anyway, open invite to list members, if you ever are in Cape Town, pop in for a visit and a braai (barbeque). 
  How many countries have you visited Karen? 

Knut Erik Hagen <knut.erik.hagen at eunet.no> wrote:
  Hei,

I think the person on this list who has visited the largest number of
countries is Karen - and she is a US citizen!

US geography might cause problems to Europeans as well.

A number of years ago there was cruise liner where they tried to save time
and money by letting a mix of water and oil into the sea in US waters. The
USCG found out about it and both the shipping company and the responsible
crew members got in serious trouble.
Some heavy fines were paid by the company and a number of employees received
jail sentences.

The Norwegian chief engineer was out of the US when the scandal became known
and decided to stay away from the US and jail.
Making sure that the ships he sailed on kept well away from US waters did he
have no problems untill he got married and went on a honeymoon with his new
wife to a Pacific paradise island. 
Both he and his wife were very surprised when he got stopped in immigration
and taken away to jail.
I guess he had six months to read up on his geography - he didn`t know when
booking his holiday that Hawaii was part of the USA... 


Eders
Knut Erik
(Visited 40 countries so far and happy to have got a Roden Staaken for
450NOK / 60Euro / 75USD from the local plastic pusher today)



>in the US there were probably no more than 10 percent of the population who
>could FIND NZ on the globe, and another ten to twenty percent who knew it
>existed (and, please pardon our sin, Kiwis) only half of them would have
>known it was not an Australian territory.





          Douglas Anderson
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  "Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning." 
  Karen Horney






		
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