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I'm trying to think of something, honestly... and failing. I'm so un-snobby, it's ridiculous.

Although, I do get a little judge-ey when people don't know really obvious things about geography. I once knew someone (a university-educated 30-year-old, ffs) who didn't know where Bangkok was.

I once knew someone (a university-educated 30-year-old, ffs) who didn't know where Bangkok was.

Unless their focus was on something to do with geography or Asian cultures, them not knowing where it was seems pretty normal to me. I mean, it's normal for someone to now where it is, but it's also pretty normal for someone to not know where it is.

Anyway, I'm a university educated 30-year-old and I couldn't pick it out on a map. Frankly, I couldn't even recall which Asian country it belonged to until I looked it up.

You probably have some things and you just don't realize them because we tend to rationalize our level of perfectionism in something as the exact correct level of perfectionism.

To paraphrase George Carlin, only you are driving the correct speed. Everyone driving faster than you is a maniac, everyone driving slower than you is an idiot.

Also, other than taking a guess that it's somewhere in an Asian country, I have no idea what country Bangkok even is and I am also a university educated 30+ person. I probably learned it at some point, but it got caught up in a useless trivia memory purge because why the fuck do I need to know that? (But my brain likes George Carlin quotes and hangs on to them because they might be handy in situations like this. Go figure.)

You seem weirdly proud about your lack of geographical knowledge...

I promise the moment knowing where Bangkok is becomes important, I will learn it. Until then it's trivia on par with knowing how many times the word 'Lupis' is said on House. Cool to know, but not important.

I feel like knowing where most major cities in the world are is generally useful knowledge? Unless you never plan on travelling, talking to people who've traveled, or interacting with anyone from a country besides your own.

I feel like knowing where most major cities in the world are is generally useful knowledge?

DA - It's not useless knowledge, but I wouldn't call it more than mildly useful. Not more useful than the approximate three billion other pieces of mildly useful factual information out there, of which we as individuals can only hope to memorize a tiny little sliver.

Unless you never plan on travelling, talking to people who've traveled, or interacting with anyone from a country besides your own.

Lol, could you try harder with this, OP? Like, do you think people travel to Bangkok on foot? Just head out their front door and start along their merry way to Thailand? Because otherwise, why would you need to know where Bangkok was on a map in order to book your tickets and then fly their on a plane? I also have no idea why you would need to know Bangkok's location on a map in order to be able to talk to someone who'd visited Bangkok. You can still listen to them describe the setting, the culture, the landmarks, and the voyage to get there without actually being able to place Bangkok geographically, I promise. And I'm kind of cracking up at the notion that you need to know the geographical location of Bangkok in order to interact with people who were born there. I mean, I'm sorry anon, but when I talk to someone, I talk to them about a wide variety of things. Their country of origin may or may not even come up. And even if it does, I really don't need to know its geographical location in order to express interest in their answer. "Oh, that's cool, what's it like there?" "When did you come here?" "Do you miss it?" "Was it a big change moving here?" "What's the weather like there?" "Do you miss the food?" That kind of thing. None of which relies on me being able to pick the city out on a map.

I meant not knowing that Bangkok was IN Thailand, at all. That's what the person I was originally talking about didn't know, that made me very wtf at her, and also a little smug, because she was the type of person who thought they knew everything about everything.

Essentially, the majority of my feelings on this very particular issue boils down to how much I hate her, as a person - and how much I'll take any opportunity to rant about her, because she made my life hell for about five years.

... And also happened to not know that Bangkok was in Thailand.

I probably learned it at some point,

Lol, this. Like, the last time academia taught me anything on the subject of geography was...seventh grade, I think?

AYRT seems to have a really inaccurate sense of how much most people know about geography if they think it's really weird that someone doesn't know Bangkok is the capital of Thailand and is located mid way along the southern edge of the country. Like, I would consider not knowing where the UK was to be an example of a surprising lack of geographical knowledge.

Eh, I seriously considered minoring in Geography in university, and I grew up with travel programs always being on TV in the house, and my family's library being like 90% books on travel, so maybe my personal fascination with knowing random shit about various countries isn't as common knowledge as I'd thought.

(Also, I've seen every season of The Amazing Race and Survivor.)

Still, is my "I judge people for this" any weirder than all of the people in the thread who care what type of pants a complete stranger wears?

All the people ITT who are so weirdly proud of their lack of common geographical knowledge: Let me guess, you're all American aren't you?

Bangkok, Oriental setting
And the city don't know that the city is getting

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