By Kasey103 - 22/01/2013 23:39 - United States - Grand Rapids

Today, I had lunch with an attractive foreign exchange student from Dresden. After bombarding her with questions about Russia, she smiled and kindly told me that Dresden is in Germany. Everyone laughed. FML
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Kasey103 10

In my defense, when she said, "Dresden is in Germany, Sweetie." I knew exactly where it was. My cousins are from Leipzig. I guess her accent just made the name sound funny. But thank you all for adding your two cents about the American education system.

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strawberrywine22 30

Geography? Ain't nobody got time for that!

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mega20913 8

did her accent not give you any clue? Germans and Russians have pretty distinct and different sounding accents

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clevercake 21

Yet another display of the failing American education system.

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fmlinact 12

Agree. All the discussion above about the ratios of vowels to consonants between the two languages (probably quickly obtained from wiki) is ridiculous. A basic knowledge of geography or history will reveal that Dresden is not in Russia, linguistics aside.

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man_in_black08 28

Hey, we share the same bday :) just saying..and yes i agree with ur statements... "Weapons of Mass Instruction"

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Iniezian 18

"Bombarding" with questions about Dresden? Anyone else find that ironic?

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morella_xx 29

I did, which is probably why I said it 30 comments ago.

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evig_fml 16

It's not that we couldn't find it, it's more like we all agree that seeing is believing, and we don't trust each other enough to ask someone else for conformation.

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Caitlin72 5

I really hate how a lot of people are commenting saying that Americans are not educated in geography. The thing is is that we don't focus on faraway places, because its not very useful to us living in the states. I'm sure it is important for people in Europe to understand their geography, because they use it a lot. However over here it is just a matter of remembering facts, and if you don't use information often you're not likely to use it. It's like a person from Mexico not being able to speak English, because Spanish is what they grew up with and lived around. English wouldn't be necessary for them, and I wouldn't think their uneducated. Also, I'd like to point out that some of us do know basic geography of other countries, we're not completely ignorant of the world outside our country. I'm sorry if I took something offensively when it wasn't meant to be, I just felt like people kept bringing that American stereotype of, "obese, uncultured, lazy, and just plain stupid."And you can only put up with that for so long.

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charvisioku 22

I'll be honest: I'm from England and my geography is nothing short of atrocious. Not something I'm proud of, but it's also something I've never really needed.

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CaptnNorway 10

Im not sure. Learning from history is important in many situations, atleast when the earth is so small as it is know. Also, as English is a lignua franca i'd call you uneducated if you didn't speak English. I know this is a bit hypocritic with my English skills, though I hope you've understood me so far.

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EvilUndead 9

Bad example. Many posters on the internet learned English as their second language (internet isn't that useful if you don't know english). Since Americans get english for free (although in many examples non-native speaker knows grammar better), they should learn geography instead. It is not necessary to know every city, of course, but at least they should know where australia is.

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karlcolt45 19

Just be glad her home town was bombed into oblivion 60 years ago then hahaah

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Jag_v 7

Sounds like the first question should have been, where is Dredsen?

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