JackOfAll wrote: 
> No, I didn't. That might explain it! I've got this idea in my head that
> their globes and maps have one land mass marked "USA" and anything else
> marked, "non-USA". ;) 
> 
> Which reminds me of standing at a bar in a Las Vegas casino..... Start
> talking to a Texan couple, him in a 500 gallon hat. "Love, your accent",
> she said. Conversation goes on to them telling me about their trip to
> Europe. How they visited Buckingham Palace, "where the queen lives". OK,
> so far, all good. Then the confusion starts. Turns out that was a one
> day trip, out of two weeks they spent in Paris. Can't quite comprehend
> that the UK is a separate country, not a part of France. I think she
> would have grasped it better if she had flown into the UK and landed at
> Heathrow, or taken a boat over water from Calais to Dover, but it seemed
> that because they had taken a train from Paris to London, without
> stopping, that it all must be the same country! Couldn't quite grasp
> that you could cross borders into another country by train.....

No, the globes show the other countries, but each country is a different
color. So when people go there they are shocked when they find out the
ground in Spain isn't green and the ground in France isn't blue. 

John S.


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