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Old Dec 15, 2012, 4:42 am
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anacapamalibu
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Originally Posted by trueblu
Since Chinese people, as a rule, can't read maps (no idea why), I find showing a map to someone to ask the way fairly useless --

tb
One theory is their geography education mainly consisted of text with little study of atlases.
My theory is you don't need a map when your main form of transportation is a bicycle and now a traditional map is obsolete with a smartphone or gps.
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