Cavesa wrote:No suprise. I few young Germans asked me "where is the Czech Republic?"
That sounds pretty remarkable to me; I certainly hope it's not representative. Wouldn't that be kind of like someone from California not knowing where Mexico is?
Cavesa wrote:No suprise. I few young Germans asked me "where is the Czech Republic?"
geoffw wrote:Cavesa wrote:No suprise. I few young Germans asked me "where is the Czech Republic?"
That sounds pretty remarkable to me; I certainly hope it's not representative. Wouldn't that be kind of like someone from California not knowing where Mexico is?
tiia wrote:geoffw wrote:Cavesa wrote:No suprise. I few young Germans asked me "where is the Czech Republic?"
That sounds pretty remarkable to me; I certainly hope it's not representative. Wouldn't that be kind of like someone from California not knowing where Mexico is?
Do you happen where from Germany these people came from? I could hardly imagine anyone from Saxony (and Bavaria?) not knowing where the Czech Republic is, but I actually can imagine this from people coming from places further West.
tarvos wrote:Not everyone memorizes the atlas these days.
PeterMollenburg wrote:tarvos wrote:No, I was being cynical.
That wasn’t clear.
From what I have seen both in the Czech Republic and in France, this is an issue with a part of the immigrants.
tarvos wrote:Not everyone memorizes the atlas these days.
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