Actually we did try to make Canada part of the U.S. at one time, but they declined our attempt to make them part of the country.
Seems they didn't like being invaded.
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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
I taught Introduction to American Government at three different Colleges. 50% of my students thought that there were 52 states in the US and that Canada and Mexico were the last two states to join the US.
I would have a mock United Nations session in my Introduction to International Relations class and would assign students to specific countries. One semester I had two hundred plus students so I assigned three students to each country. The three students who were assigned to Great Britain told me that Germany bordered Great Britain. Then they argued with me when I returned their paper and they had been marked down. I pulled out a map and they still argued with me.
It is really, really sad what students don't know.
And most thought that Africa was one country and did not get the difference between a continent and a country.
I drank heavily after grading.
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