Amerocentrism (was Re: Sports (was ... )

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"I don't necessarily think the
complaint was that canadians shouldn't be expected to know
american history, but rather that americans should be
expected to know the tiniest bit of canadian history. If
the history of canada was treated to the same number
of questions as say african politics and history,
i'm sure complaints would lessen."

Then we'd
have a single country with the same number of
questions as acontinent with 25 time as many
people.

Canada deserves a more than proportional representation
as it's english-speaking, a neighbor, and because
canadian teams play. But not as many as
Africa.

Jer
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"I don't necessarily think the complaint was that
americans shouldn't be expected to know canadian history,
but rather that canadians should be expected to know
the tiniest bit of american history. If the history
of america was treated to the same number of
questions as say african politics and history, i'm sure
complaints would lessen."

Then we'd have a single
country with the same number of questions as a continent
with 2.5 times as many people.

The United
States deserves a more than proportional representation
as it's english-speaking, a neighbour, and because
american teams play. But not as many as
Africa.

Dave
If you want questions done right, write them
yourself :)

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