• Water Bowl Slime
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    Pushed to the shadows for who? Because I’m pretty sure every Chinese person knows about the cultural revolution.

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      Surprisingly enough, most Westerners seem to know about it too, which is especially surprising in a country where 98% of people don’t know what continent El Salvador is in (someone I asked said “Asia”)

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        We Americans have no grasp on geography it’s true. I doubt most of us knew where Ukraine was before last year (and I bet many of us still can’t point to it on a map)

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          There’s a very depressing video on YouTube of someone asking people around America to point to Ukraine on a map. I kid you not, one person pointed to Canada and said “If Ukraine was far away, clearly the US wouldn’t be involved in it”. A total of one person out of everyone asked got it right.

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        Embarrassing confession time: as a kid, I got the Andes and the Himalayas mixed up, and as a result thought Tibet was somewhere in South America.