Originally Posted by
cbn42
Geography is definitely part of the curriculum, but it is focused on things like learning the names of countries and their capitals, physical features like mountain ranges and rivers, and a bit about regional economies. I don't think travel times would come into play.
As frequent flyers it's easy to look down on people who don't have our level of knowledge, but I'm sure we are all equally clueless about other things that we don't deal with regularly. I was invited to a golf tournament recently for the first time in my life, and my colleagues were quite amused that I had zero idea about the terminology or the flow of the game.
When my daughters were teenagers I used to tell them that the easiest and most satisfying thing in the world was to be a snob - you get to make up the criteria that you are going to judge people by, then you get to judge them, and then you get to find them to not be up to your standards! What's not to like? And if someone accidentally *does* meet your standards - you can just change them!