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jhameia:
unfriendly-black-hottii:
queer-somniac:
nouveaurich:
Just so you know
EDUCATE.
Africa is the continent.
wish more maps like these came across my dash
i gotta find more people to follow who rebagel this sort of stuff
As a tiny, tiny child, I had a map of the world on the wall of my bedroom, probably because it was huge and had come for free with something. Coincidentally, my bed was oriented such that I lay with my head right next to Africa. And so I memorized the shapes of a lot of the countries, right as I was learning to read.
Consequently I’m not really aware of ever having learned about African geography, and yet just sort of assume it’s the sort of thing everyone knows? And in fact I never encountered any of this knowledge in school, never used it– until late in my undergrad career, where an economics professor sprung a pop quiz on us that just consisted of ‘label all the countries in Africa’. Afterward it transpired that I had gotten all of them, and had thereby wrecked the curve. Nobody else had gotten more than about three.
We don’t learn this. We don’t learn this at all. And it’s so stupid that I can remember learning about Vasco de fucking Gama in three separate grades, and yet I was the only person in my class of thirty, literally, who could find more than three African countries on a map.
And only coincidentally because of a decorating choice on my parents’ part.
jhameia:
unfriendly-black-hottii:
queer-somniac:
nouveaurich:
Just so you know
EDUCATE.
Africa is the continent.
wish more maps like these came across my dash
i gotta find more people to follow who rebagel this sort of stuff
As a tiny, tiny child, I had a map of the world on the wall of my bedroom, probably because it was huge and had come for free with something. Coincidentally, my bed was oriented such that I lay with my head right next to Africa. And so I memorized the shapes of a lot of the countries, right as I was learning to read.
Consequently I’m not really aware of ever having learned about African geography, and yet just sort of assume it’s the sort of thing everyone knows? And in fact I never encountered any of this knowledge in school, never used it– until late in my undergrad career, where an economics professor sprung a pop quiz on us that just consisted of ‘label all the countries in Africa’. Afterward it transpired that I had gotten all of them, and had thereby wrecked the curve. Nobody else had gotten more than about three.
We don’t learn this. We don’t learn this at all. And it’s so stupid that I can remember learning about Vasco de fucking Gama in three separate grades, and yet I was the only person in my class of thirty, literally, who could find more than three African countries on a map.
And only coincidentally because of a decorating choice on my parents’ part.
