February 21, 2024
Maps Tell the Story
By Sloan Oliver
Years ago, Jay Leno hosted the “Tonight Show.” Some of the funniest videos were those when he questioned random people on the street about a topic. On several occasions, they asked people simple geography questions, and many couldn’t name the country to our immediate north (It’s Canada, for you Rush people in Rio Linda.) or to our south. Undoubtedly, Leno didn’t show every response of those questioned but those he did were hilarious. Many people couldn’t name the continents much less any country, not even the United States. More recently, Jimmy Kimmel has taken up the quest to find ignorant Americans. In reality, their answers aren’t funny. That lack of knowledge helps explain much of why people think as they do -- they’re ignorant on most topics.
That said, we can learn a great deal from maps. Assuming you can read maps, we immediately see that Asia is a very large landmass, the same with Africa. Also, most of the earth’s surface is water (70%), and the Pacific Ocean is huge.
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