I'm not surprised.
My wife and I have been traveliving now for six years so each time we go back home my buddies think I'm a genius cause I know which country flags belong to whom and where they go on the map. They still think the Indian Ocean is Native American waters. Where I'm from there's only two oceans—Pacific and Atlantic.
In that New Jersey dudes defense, geography lessons in American public schools consist of which countries to fear, not where they are or anything, just that we shouldn't go there cuz they hate us.
Finances, however, or calculating mortgage loans and how to balance a checkbook and "US History," they call it, we begin learning that in the womb. = }
We spent 10 days in your country back in June. Southeast Asia, right? Kidding. I can't say enough good things about Prague. I wrote about our visit here if you're interested.
Cheers.
No worries, I know how the American education system works ;) Spent some 6 months in the states, still have a lot of friends over there... Like you said, geography might not exactly be the most important subject in American schools but there are others where you make up for it greatly ;)
Checked out the post. Very nice one and I´m glad you enjoyed Prague so much :) But I have to disappoint you a bit :D While we are a relatively clean country, there are still regions here in Europe that make us look like messy boors compared to them :D Places like Switzerland, Austria or the Scandinavian countries, it just feels like their streets but also their natural sites like forests and parks are being constantly vacuumed by someone, they are literally spotless :)
Btw I can see you are from L.A. There is this cool L.A. expat girl Jen who now lives here in Prague and makes videos about her life here, about all the funny differences between the cultures etc. Her videos are quite popular :) You can check them out here: https://www.youtube.com/c/DreamPrague
Thanks for the link. I checked out a couple clips. She's so right about vacations back home. In our culture it's go-go-go work-work-work, no time for vacations. What we do is extend a 3-day weekend by a day or two, go to Las Vegas for three nights and call it vacation.
Interesting you say Scandinavian. I mentioned to a Ukrainian working in a Greek restaurant there in Prague what I thought and how impressed we were with the cleanliness. He said if we think Prague is clean, we need to see Stockholm.
Nice crossing paths with you. Don't be a stranger.
Likewise. Cheers from Prague :)