| voty2000 said:
Same can be said for any country so why bring it up? Many Canadians are ignorant along with many from the UK and France. It's a useless comment that shows ignorance. Should have said Canada if you didn't want to mean it as an insult. |
UK and France would probably be awful choices with Canada's history and close ties to both ...
Most people in most countries are fairly ignorant about large portions of the world but they tend to be fairly knowledgeable about portions of the world that have particular meaning for their country or in their personal life. The United States is unusual because people get by without needing to know anything about the outside world.
There is a joke I have heard several times which, while not entirely fair, is loosely related to this topic. The Joke is "What do you call someone who only speaks one language? An American" ... The same can be said in most English speaking countries because (for the most part) British and American economic dominance over the past centuries has resulted in most of the world adapting to us to some extent. On a cultural level something similar can be said about Americans; while most of the world is bombarded by American culture in movies, music, books and videogames Americans tend not to pay attention to a lot of what is happening in the rest of the world. Many good movies from around the world are watched throughout the world and then are "re-made" for American audiences, often being changed fairly dramatically to suit American tastes.
