How many Europeans can point out Kansas on a map? I’d bet I could find just as many Europeans ignorant of North American geography as they find Americans ignorant of European geography, especially since, as you point out, they cherry pick the most ignorant sounding responses.

How many Europeans can point out Kansas on a map?

What does that have to do with anything? OP was talking about world and Euro-adjacent areas, not ‘can Americans identify Euro nations the same way Euros can identify the states of the USA?’

Regardless, it seems to me perfectly natural for people living in a hodge-podge of cultures & nations to be more knowledgeable about their surroundings and even world geography than Americans, which is more isolated on various levels. Not to mention, commonly filled with a level of exceptionalism.

Kansas is as close to Americans geographically as European countries are to Europeans. Asking Americans to be as familiar with European geography as Europeans is the equivalent to asking Europeans to be familiar with us states.

Not really. States have natural variance in culture and features, but Euro nations are vastly more diverse and worth knowing about. They go back to the ancient world in importance, and some of them had a huge impact in what the modern map & modern world looks like.

American states are largely irrelevant by comparison. There are very few reasons for people around the world to know anything about Kansas in particular, compared to one of the Euro colonial powers, like Greece or Italy, etc.

There it is…the arrogance. We"re old we matter. You’re young you dont. How quickly everyone forgets.

Not sure what you’re talking about, but on the surface it looks like you’re trying to jam a square peg through a round hole. Good luck with that…