Buzzfeed asked a bunch of Brits to label a map of the United States. They failed miserably…
To be fair, Americans are no better at mapping Europe.
Brits Suck at Labeling the United States (15 Pics)
Buzzfeed asked a bunch of Brits to label a map of the United States. They failed miserably…
To be fair, Americans are no better at mapping Europe.
Well, if you had me fill out the UK, the results would be pretty similar…
North Ireland, Scotland, Whales, and England. Is that goddamn hard for you, tea drinker?
Hahahaha first of all ‘Whales’ are marine mammals and ‘Wales’ is the country. Second of all, we have counties (they are like states). However, British people aren’t so full of self-importance that we would expect any one from another country to label them. Oh and this is not an anti-American rant; I hold both British and American citizenship.
We don’t drink tea.
We push it off docks.
GET IT RIGHT!
Wow, that really compares to 50 states.
To be fair as a Canadian I wouldn’t fair any better. I doubt most Americans could do better
I am actually quite impressed. I could label Wales, Scotland, and England and make an incredibly pathetic attempt at drawing their borders, and maybe point out the general vicinity of London, but that’s it.
Mapping Europe is hard…? Nice education that you got in US.
Oh yeah, I didn’t learn how to map Europe in my non-existent Geography class.
My bad.
To be shamefully honest, I’m an American and couldn’t properly ID all the states…
That’s probably true of most Americans. This Brits should actually be quite proud by comparison.
Right, because how many people living outside of the states actually care or are even able to list all of the states?
We only have ten provinces and 3 territories .. Yet how many Americans can successfully fill out OUR map ?
#usaisnotthecentreoftheuniverse
#YESITISYOUJEALOUSNONAMERICAN
Your enough to look it up… Your argument is invalid.
#MURICAISTHECENTEROFALL
i think its funny that American students are forced to know all European countries and yet people in Europe suck at labeling the US states…
Not the same thing…
Did you check out the link below the last picture?
Countries =/= states.
As a Brit, I learned the countries in North and South America, as well as the countries in Europe.
The real comparison would be if you were forced to learn and label all the counties of the UK, while we didn’t have to learn the states of the US.
Because they are European-COUNTRIES and not US-STATES.
It’s like the Cantons of Switzerland or the states of Germany…everybody knows the country, but only a few foreign people could name their states. 😉
Laura: you think it’s funny that Americans have to know COUNTRIES and Europeans don’t know STATES?? How well do you know the various provinces of France? Britain? Forget Europe, can you label all of Canada or Mexico? The existence of this post and comments like yours are actually kind of funny. This is why no one likes Americans, btw.
If nobody liked America, nobody would live there.
You just sound stuck up.
You must be jealous of our fabulousness.
You people are one country. States are provinces in political sense so once we know it the USA i dont really give a damn which state I`m in since all are alike. Look hou americans label Europes DIFFERENT COUNTRIES with different politicat statuses.
http://www.boredpanda.com/americans-place-european-countries-on-map/
Heck, I was laughing at how California & Texas were the only states that most of the maps got right (& how Oregon/Washington were so often combined ’cause I’m from the Seattle area) & how funny it was that this was likely a pretty good reflection of how most other countries likely “see” the U.S. & that things would likely be just as “bad” if anyone from any country was asked to label the states/counties/provinces/whateverthefucks from just about any country that they didn’t live in because that’s just the way we humans tend to operate & I found the whole thing funny.
I didn’t realize it was actually an open invitation to bash all “Americans” (because both Central & South America – not to mention Canada – are apparently now part of the United States too somehow?) for being ignorant fools.
That will teach me to laugh at stuff on the internet!
I know of the states, but not where they are located to be honest.
But I’d also struggle if I was asked the counties of the UK. Or the countries of Africa, Asia etc.
It’s not down to ignorance or any slight, it’s down to learning them, and us Brits don;t need to know them. The ones we do know are the obvious ones we see the most on TV.
So no real need for Americans to get bent out of shape about it.
I think they should have people from the U.S. give the U.S. map a shot, see if they are that much better…..
Some of these are not bad… (I’m Canadian so I have like no clue >_<)
As a mildly educated person, but with an intrest in books, geography, and history, I could find, name and list at least 60% of american states and capitals… The same could not be said for uk counties, as for the rest of Europe… Not a chance, the world is a big place, and frankly I don’t give a f…..xxx should say I am english…