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[Sergarr]

Does CNN even tries to get these facts right? That's not the first time they made a geographical mistake.

[Guardian G.I.]

They also got their Congos mixed.

Furthermore, it's hard to see, but Serbia and Montenegro are still marked as united on that CNN map. South Sudan also doesn't exist.

[Dutchling]

Belgium is also a separate country on that map.

[SirQuiamus]

How can anyone mistake Poland Estonia Kaliningrad for Ukraine? Learn 2 geography, Murkans.

[Owlbread]

To be fair, when I was about to leave secondary school (High School) I remember one girl was convinced Africa was in fact a country, not a continent. Others wouldn't be able to find where our town was on a map. Most Americans I've met have been roughly as good at geography as anyone else. It's just lazy, incompetent media-reporters and the like that are the problem, and like any modern state America is awash with them.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

But Africa is a country.

And perhaps...

[Owlbread]

But Africa is a country.

And perhaps...

You can argue that, yes, but I'm not really happy with arguing for things like a United States of Africa on the basis that Africans are all "black" or something. I think it belittles the complexity and diversity of African peoples and reduces them to a "skin tone" (internalised colonialism) when a Northern Ethiopian is as different to a South African Bantu as I am from a Syrian Arab. For instance, it depresses me that black nationalists in America chose Swahili as a language to learn to connect with their heritage rather than one of the many West African languages they would have more of a connection with, such as Mande languages or Igbo or something.

In terms of international cooperation though I think a number of economic cooperatives are sensible and could do a lot of good to African people.

But yeah, rather than worrying about tearing down the borders between Liberia and Eritrea for instance, or Sudan and Jamaica, maybe we should consider tearing down the artificial borders between the multitude of Congolese states, or sorting out the travesty of about half of Somalia being divided among 3-4 different countries, all thanks to colonialism. 

[Sheb]

How can anyone mistake Poland Estonia Kaliningrad for Ukraine? Learn 2 geography, Murkans.

That's Belarus.... :p

[SirQuiamus]

Don't be silly. Belarus is like a large seal, with big teeth and a moustache.

[scriver]

Belarus, the Sea Lion of Europe. Belarus the Walru- oh, I get it now.

[Loud Whispers]

To be fair, when I was about to leave secondary school (High School) I remember one girl was convinced Africa was in fact a country, not a continent. Others wouldn't be able to find where our town was on a map. Most Americans I've met have been roughly as good at geography as anyone else. It's just lazy, incompetent media-reporters and the like that are the problem, and like any modern state America is awash with them.

It's easy to be convinced that there's some bizarre conspiracy to ruin the American people's understanding of Geography, starting with the children's cartoons that actively edit out any mention of foreign cultures and other countries and ending in even the news channels being abysmal failures at pointing to the countries where they just sent their reporters.

Does CNN even tries to get these facts right? That's not the first time they made a geographical mistake.

They're closer than last time:

Ukrainistan:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Give it a year and they'll finally figure out where it is.

[alway]

Yeah, that's CNN for you. They're shit-tier news like Fox News, but with lolcats and tabloids instead of angry old people race baiting. And don't be silly LW, a year from now they will be too busy covering a plane crash to even remember if Ukraine is a country or a continent.

[scrdest]

Belarus, the Sea Lion of Europe. Belarus the Walru- oh, I get it now.

Does that make Poland the Eggman?

[Owlbread]

"Why an SNP surge at Westminster could mean the end of Britain" - Alex Massie, Scottish Tory/Unionist and one of my favourite political columnists, claiming that British Unionism is probably going to be dealt a serious body blow this year by the SNP; one that could make independence inevitable.

My favourite quote from the piece:

It is depressing that so many English Tories are plainly more exercised by ‘threats’ from Brussels than from Edinburgh. As one Cabinet member puts it: ‘Scotland really is, now, another country: I’ve given up understanding it.’

[Sergarr]

"Why an SNP surge at Westminster could mean the end of Britain" - Alex Massie, Scottish Tory/Unionist and one of my favourite Scottish columnists, claiming that British Unionism is probably going to be dealt a serious body blow this year by the SNP; one that could make independence inevitable.

My favourite quote from the piece:

It is depressing that so many English Tories are plainly more exercised by ‘threats’ from Brussels than from Edinburgh. As one Cabinet member puts it: ‘Scotland really is, now, another country: I’ve given up understanding it.’

I wonder when the next referendum will be... looks like the illusion of "Happy-Scotland-In-UK" that has been created by Pro-Britain media is trashed pretty throughly - by the hands of people who did not follow up on their promises of "devolution". Hopefully people won't get fooled the second time.