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You could go to Toronto to see...Toronto.
Toronto is in Ontario. I did mention Ontario. Look, Canada is a wonderful place to visit. I'm going there at the end of August. But if you're a Canadian and you've already been to BC, QB, and ON ... there's not much else to see. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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really... just india and china? what about australia? canada? Russia?
I've never been to Australia, so I can't comment. In Canada, you have three choices. British Columbia/Vancouver, Ontario/Ottawa, and Quebec/Montreal. The rest is frozen tundra. Russia? Leningrad (or whatever they're calling it now), Moscow, and the Black Sea region (might as well go to Ukraine/Odessa for that). The rest is frozen tundra. So yeah, China and India. It's not about size. It's about the diversity of cultu…
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I'm happy as long as we are not confused with Switzerland, but you missed my point. Is the state that large US cities reside in on (foreign) peoples radars?
San Francisco and Los Angeles are in what US state? Dallas? Miami?
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The parent post doesn't mean the same thing you mean. The USN patrols every major seaway in the world; I sure don't see South Africa doing the same, nor Canada, Australia, The Russian Federation, and definitely not Argentina.
If the gp meant that, then the US would have a 4 ocean navy. I'm not arguing the size is the biggest, I'm arguing that the reason it is the biggest is not due to coastlines on two oceans.
The section on American internet access is pretty old. (ISDN?)
Apparently all cell phones in the US are analog too.
Once again, for the folks commenting on trains: the US train system is very, very good at hauling cargo. It was designed to do that. It sucks at hauling people because they are on the cargo train tracks and don't have tracks of their own.
http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/us-d.html#communism It is not very well known however that Germany saw a much more vigilant communism hunt at about the same time. While in the US only about a dozen people ever went to prison for being Communists, that same number runs in the thousands in Germany. The communist party was forbidden by the German high court, and party members who continued their activities were a…
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The point is that knowing that Zurich is in Switzerland is more similar to knowing that Denver is in Colorado than it is to knowing that Denver is in the United States. Presumably the size of the city is interesting because the implicit assumption is that knowing where Zurich is important because Zurich is a big city.
My point is that it isn't similar at all, on any level. A typical foreigner to the US probably knows where some large cities in US are without having the slightest clue about which state many of them reside in. That is my perception of it.
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My point is that it isn't similar at all, on any level. A typical foreigner to the US probably knows where some large cities in US are without having the slightest clue about which state many of them reside in. That is my perception of it.
...Which is why it's so similar to how a typical American probably knows where some large cities in Europe are without having the slightest clue about which country many of them reside in.
The difference between two neighbouring countries is a huge deal and apparent (regardless if you are a local or not) where you don't even speak the same language, have the same currency (the euro has of course changed that a bit (in Europe)) and for all practical purposes a complete different sets of laws and culture.
The reason for why many cities are notable is because they are the capitals of different countries. Their identity is based on their country. You can hardly say the same about different states in America (to the same extent (of course people that live in America have different accents and prejudices for people in other states etc., but to compare that to different countries?)).
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To paraphrase Richard Feynman: you're not right; in fact, you're not even wrong. No I don't find Swedish cities interesting. But I did not start quizzing you about U.S. cities. If you started quizzing me about Swedish cities, then it would be fair for me to quiz you about American ones. The issue of cities is irrelevant; the concept at discussion is "turnabout is fair play." The guy who asked about Zurich wanted to s…
You guys might honestly think that it is easier to put a large US city in a state rather than pinpoint it on a map. I don't think most foreigners would agree. My interest in America isn't in any way related to my interest of the states within America...
That is my point, in a nutshell: the knowledge is relative.
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You could go to Toronto to see...Toronto.
Toronto is in Ontario. I did mention Ontario. Look, Canada is a wonderful place to visit. I'm going there at the end of August. But if you're a Canadian and you've already been to BC, QB, and ON ... there's not much else to see. Correct me if I'm wrong.
edit: From the cia world factbook(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...) China Ethnic groups: Han Chinese 91.5%, Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, Miao, Uighur, Tujia, Yi, Mongol, Tibetan, Buyi, Dong, Yao, Korean, and other nationalities 8.5% (2000 census)
Yep.. that's a real melting pot there.