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Now, ask 1000 Londoners to name a City in Illinois other than Chicago.
When I saw the headline I tried to think of one and failed. Then I saw the list in the article and recognized most of the names, and could even say a few things about them. And with those as priming, could name a few more. Brains are weird.
Sometimes we also use Cued Recall [2] to retrieve events or information from memory.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition_memory
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recall_%28memory%29#Cued_recal...
I don't know what the author's real motives were (Was it really to beat on the theme that 'Americans are ignorant?), but I personally think this is a good exercise to humble yourself - 'My country/city is not as important as I think it is'. Frankly, Britain is not as important as it once was and hasn't been for half a century. And it's not particularly notable. You would have better luck with Germany, France, Greece,…
You have reason to doubt "what I actually wanted to find out is how well known my own beloved city is"?
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'Americans are ignorant' You know he was dying for results that would support this. Why else would they ask such an inane question?
He is a she. There's a big picture of her, and she's called Stacey. Or did you not notice as the page doesn't have a pink background and it's about stats?
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As a belgian european I often wonder if the United States seems as big to americans as Europe seems big to me. I wonder if it feels different to be a citizen of a small country or a citizen of a continent-wide country such as the United States. Or maybe americans feel they are californians or new-yorkers before being american ?
I would say the culture here is fairly homogenous, so most people feel like Americans before they feel like a citizen of their home state.
Now, ask 1000 Londoners to name a City in Illinois other than Chicago.
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He is a she. There's a big picture of her, and she's called Stacey. Or did you not notice as the page doesn't have a pink background and it's about stats?
Please grow up. It's common for people to default to "he" as when they do not know the gender of the person in question. I didn't even notice the author until you mentioned anything. If anything, your last comment is quite a bit more inflammatory than accidentally referring to a random blogger as a "he".
[1] http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/resources/figure1_tcm77-259156.png
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'Americans are ignorant' You know he was dying for results that would support this. Why else would they ask such an inane question?
He is a she. There's a big picture of her, and she's called Stacey. Or did you not notice as the page doesn't have a pink background and it's about stats?
