Do you want me to quiz you on the provinces of Sweden?
Oh, you don't find that interesting? Well, hardly anyone outside Sweden probably does. Pointless knowledge.
Oh, you don't find that interesting? Well, hardly anyone outside Sweden probably does. Pointless knowledge.
No I don't find Swedish cities interesting. But I did not start quizzing you about U.S. cities. If you started quizzing me about Swedish cities, then it would be fair for me to quiz you about American ones. The issue of cities is irrelevant; the concept at discussion is "turnabout is fair play." The guy who asked about Zurich wanted to show how stupid Americans were by trumpeting his culturally specific, regionally biased knowledge. To show how this was just snobbery, an American did the same to him. It doesn't matter if you don't think America is interesting; that's not what this is about.
Note: I actually like Europe; I'm just trying to prove a point.
I don't think most foreigners would agree.
My interest in America isn't in any way related to my interest of the states within America...
That is my point, in a nutshell: the knowledge is relative.
Is the state that large US cities reside in on (foreign) peoples radars?
Dallas?
Miami?
Only San Franciscans think that. The folks in the rest of Northern CA know better.
The real dividing line in CA runs north/south. SF and LA are on the same side of that line.