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On September 17 2015 00:06 Ketara wrote:Show nested quote +On September 16 2015 23:48 mordek wrote:On September 16 2015 23:46 Ketara wrote:On September 16 2015 21:40 Sufficiency wrote:On September 16 2015 13:28 Ketara wrote:
No it's in Thailand.
It's a city in Thailand that they made up. I thought it was... Indonesia/Malaysia. You guys do realize that in black lagoon when they show the city all the signs and ads and billboards etc are in Thai right? Like, I knew what Thai writing looked like before I ever came here. It doesn't look like Malaysian or Indonesian or Vietnamese, its very different. Not sure how you can make this mistake. http://lagooncompany.wikia.com/wiki/Roanapur Well I have no idea what any of those look like so seems like an easy mistake if you were given some other context that indicated Indonesia or Vietnam  This seems like a failure of the american education system. Okay I'm about to go to bed, so pop quiz time. Here's the rules. I'll spoiler a few general questions about Thailand. You guys answer those questions in spoilers WITHOUT LOOKING THEM UP and I will grade everybody when I get up. No looking up answers or reading other peoples answers till I wake up and see who said what, okay? Honor system or this doesn't work. I will grade it as Euros vs Americans, and we will see who does better. Questions: + Show Spoiler +
1 - what is the biggest religion in Thailand?
2 - what kind of government does Thailand have?
3 - what language do Thai people speak?
4 - what countries border Thailand? (1 point per correct answer)
5 - what is the main sport in Thailand?
6 - what are Thai martial arts called?
7 - name one food from Thailand.
8 - what is the capital of Thailand?
9 - what is Thai currency called?
10 - what is one city in Thailand other than the capital?
I rate it who cares out of I will never visit this country in my life.
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United States47024 Posts
On September 17 2015 00:11 Ketara wrote:
They don't know much about america, but they know way more about america than you know about Thailand.
I mean, of course, but given geopolitical relevance, that's to be expected.
Americans would be more likely to correctly answer analogous questions about China or Korea than Thailand because it's more relevant to them, for example.
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On September 17 2015 00:11 Ketara wrote:
They don't know much about america, but they know way more about america than you know about Thailand.
I can honestly say that if I took that quiz before coming here I would have gotten a perfect score.
Which is totally reasonable for someone who has an interest in traveling, peace corps, and specifically Asian culture. I'm sure my brother in law could do the same - he's been there a couple times.
But for someone like me, those are all questions that I would likely fail for most countries around the world, especially considering how personally insignificant Thailand is for me. Granted, I'm bad at history/pop culture in general.
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On September 17 2015 00:11 mordek wrote:Show nested quote +On September 17 2015 00:06 Ketara wrote:On September 16 2015 23:48 mordek wrote:On September 16 2015 23:46 Ketara wrote:On September 16 2015 21:40 Sufficiency wrote:On September 16 2015 13:28 Ketara wrote:
No it's in Thailand.
It's a city in Thailand that they made up. I thought it was... Indonesia/Malaysia. You guys do realize that in black lagoon when they show the city all the signs and ads and billboards etc are in Thai right? Like, I knew what Thai writing looked like before I ever came here. It doesn't look like Malaysian or Indonesian or Vietnamese, its very different. Not sure how you can make this mistake. http://lagooncompany.wikia.com/wiki/Roanapur Well I have no idea what any of those look like so seems like an easy mistake if you were given some other context that indicated Indonesia or Vietnam This seems like a failure of the american education system. Okay I'm about to go to bed, so pop quiz time. Here's the rules. I'll spoiler a few general questions about Thailand. You guys answer those questions in spoilers WITHOUT LOOKING THEM UP and I will grade everybody when I get up. No looking up answers or reading other peoples answers till I wake up and see who said what, okay? Honor system or this doesn't work. I will grade it as Euros vs Americans, and we will see who does better. Questions: + Show Spoiler +
1 - what is the biggest religion in Thailand?
2 - what kind of government does Thailand have?
3 - what language do Thai people speak?
4 - what countries border Thailand? (1 point per correct answer]
5 - what is the main sport in Thailand?
6 - what are Thai martial arts called?
7 - name one food from Thailand.
8 - what is the capital of Thailand?
9 - what is Thai currency called?
10 - what is one city in Thailand other than the capital?
I'm fine with a pop quiz on Thailand but would you expect this level of knowledge for all countries? Is there a reason I should know these answers about Thailand but not the Czech Republic? I'm not saying this is a super in-depth quiz but that's a lot of information for every country out there.
I will say that I wouldn't be surprised if nobody here can get 100% on that quiz, but everybody should get one or two answers at least.
I don't know much about the Czech republic at all but I could answer a few of those questions for them. Their religion is Christian, their language is Czech, capital is Prague, sport is football. Currency is the euro (???)
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Straight outta Johto18973 Posts
On September 17 2015 00:06 Ketara wrote:Questions: + Show Spoiler +
1 - what is the biggest religion in Thailand?
Buddhism
2 - what kind of government does Thailand have?
Constitutional Monarchy + Democratically elected government however direct elections have been suspented following military junta overthrow of the Shinawatra government (the female one, the original one is in exile cause of corruption stuff)
3 - what language do Thai people speak?
Thai
4 - what countries border Thailand? (1 point per correct answer)
Uh Laos, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia?
5 - what is the main sport in Thailand?
Uh badminton or football?
6 - what are Thai martial arts called?
Uh Muay Thai?
7 - name one food from Thailand.
Hom mali rice is a meal in itself
8 - what is the capital of Thailand?
Bangkok
9 - what is Thai currency called?
Thai Baht
10 - what is one city in Thailand other than the capital?
Chaing Mai
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I wouldn't call general knowledge that important for education purposes. A certain level is needed but details about countries that have no impact on your lives doesn't really matter for education at all.
China on the other hand is prob pretty important for a South African since they going to own us very soon :D
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Please don't let the euros win you guys.
Please.
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United States47024 Posts
On September 17 2015 00:12 Requizen wrote:
I rate it who cares out of I will never visit this country in my life.
I'd say that if you're going to decide in your 20s that you'll never visit Thailand, you're missing out.
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Pootie too good!4331 Posts
On September 17 2015 00:06 Ketara wrote:Show nested quote +On September 16 2015 23:48 mordek wrote:On September 16 2015 23:46 Ketara wrote:On September 16 2015 21:40 Sufficiency wrote:On September 16 2015 13:28 Ketara wrote:
No it's in Thailand.
It's a city in Thailand that they made up. I thought it was... Indonesia/Malaysia. You guys do realize that in black lagoon when they show the city all the signs and ads and billboards etc are in Thai right? Like, I knew what Thai writing looked like before I ever came here. It doesn't look like Malaysian or Indonesian or Vietnamese, its very different. Not sure how you can make this mistake. http://lagooncompany.wikia.com/wiki/Roanapur Well I have no idea what any of those look like so seems like an easy mistake if you were given some other context that indicated Indonesia or Vietnam This seems like a failure of the american education system. Okay I'm about to go to bed, so pop quiz time. Here's the rules. I'll spoiler a few general questions about Thailand. You guys answer those questions in spoilers WITHOUT LOOKING THEM UP and I will grade everybody when I get up. No looking up answers or reading other peoples answers till I wake up and see who said what, okay? Honor system or this doesn't work. I will grade it as Euros vs Americans, and we will see who does better. Questions: + Show Spoiler +
1 - what is the biggest religion in Thailand?
2 - what kind of government does Thailand have?
3 - what language do Thai people speak?
4 - what countries border Thailand? (1 point per correct answer)
5 - what is the main sport in Thailand?
6 - what are Thai martial arts called?
7 - name one food from Thailand.
8 - what is the capital of Thailand?
9 - what is Thai currency called?
10 - what is one city in Thailand other than the capital?
One of my exes studied in Thailand for about 9 weeks so I have some random information that will finally come to fruition!
+ Show Spoiler [JonGalt's impressive knowledge of Thai…] +
1 - what is the biggest religion in Thailand?
Buddhism
2 - what kind of government does Thailand have?
Parliamentary/Constitutional Monarchy (I think those are the same?)
3 - what language do Thai people speak?
Thai
4 - what countries border Thailand? (1 point per correct answer)
Oh jeez... Definitely Cambodia. Lao? Myanmar? Vietnam is close by. Malaysia?
5 - what is the main sport in Thailand?
Soccer. D.Thongalo, muh boi!
6 - what are Thai martial arts called?
No fucking clue.
7 - name one food from Thailand.
They eat a lot of rice? Probably jasmine? Masaman curry? Shumai?
8 - what is the capital of Thailand?
Bangkok
9 - what is Thai currency called?
Baht!
10 - what is one city in Thailand other than the capital?
Uhhh... Suptas??
Not too shabby if I do say so myself for a MURICAN. Probably the worst relationship I have ever been in, but I am glad to see I got some good out of it. Aside from limited knowledge of Thailand I at least learned when a relationship was over and how to not be a pussy and break up with someone LOL.
@Soniv - When I was in Lesotho, they didn't know anything about America aside from what you hear in music/movies/our pop culture. They knew Obama was the president and that Rihanna existed (both of whom they were sure I had met before and kicked it with on a regular basis), but were pretty shocked when I told them that yes we have cows/corn/sheep in America. They had heard of New York city but could not tell you what Massachusetts was (aside from a difficult word to say). But Lesotho is different I think. I am pretty sure that their level of education is far below what Thailand is. I mean, we don't even teach history in my school in Lesotho. They knew the history of Lesotho and a little bit about South Africa, but they knew nothing of slaves and I am 99% sure a vast majority of the population have no idea World War I or II was a thing. WHICH BLOWS MY FUCKING MIND BY THE WAY
ps We used to teach history I guess. But too many people failed it, so they just stopped ROFL
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On September 17 2015 00:21 TheYango wrote:Show nested quote +On September 17 2015 00:12 Requizen wrote:
I rate it who cares out of I will never visit this country in my life. I'd say that if you're going to decide in your 20s that you'll never visit Thailand, you're missing out.
There are a lot of places that I'd love to go before I die. Thailand probably doesn't even make the top 20, and I doubt I'll ever be well off enough to do all of them anyway.
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On September 17 2015 00:21 Ketara wrote:
Please don't let the euros win you guys.
Please.
Can you answer those questions for Luxembourg? Andora? Bulgaria? Congo?
Maybe you can, but if you haven't specifically sought out those answers at some point in your life, or spent at least a little time studying those places, I see no reason to know a lot of those.
+ Show Spoiler +I know the capital is Bangkok. I can make an educated guess that the religion is Buddhism. I knew the currency is Baht when someone said it, but couldn't remember off the top of my head. I'll admit my geography knowledge of that area isn't as good as it should be, but it's been a long time since I looked at a map of the area.
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United States47024 Posts
On September 17 2015 00:21 Ketara wrote:
Please don't let the euros win you guys.
Please.
Well Moonbear isn't really a Euro so no Euro has answered.
But just to humor you:
+ Show Spoiler +
1 - Buddhism?
2 - Don't know
3 - Thai
4 - Burma/Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia
5 - No idea
6 - Muay Thai?
7 - Uhh, pad thai is the boring uneducated answer but I'll go with it cuz I can't think of anything else lol
8 - Bangkok
9 - Baht
10 - Chiang Mai
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Thanks moonbear and jongalt and yango and soniv <3
Come on guys, these four have made it a proper euros vs muricans competition. Join in!
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Pootie too good!4331 Posts
Oh wtf. How did I not even GUESS the karate one. Jeeeez, n00b alert.
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On September 17 2015 00:21 Ketara wrote:
Please don't let the euros win you guys.
Please.
I can correctly answer 6, but I'm not going to because I disagree with the very premise of the quiz. As such, here are my answers.
- The Cult of Ketara
- Ketara's Government
- They don't if they know what's good for them.
- Soon Thailand and This Is What Happens When You Fight Backland.
- Whatever pleases Ketara at the time.
- Ketaraut of the way.
- Ketara's sweet visage.
- Ketara
- Ketaras
- Roanapour
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Hey no reading other peoples answers till tomorrow.
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On September 17 2015 00:30 Ketara wrote:
Thanks moonbear and jongalt and yango and soniv <3
Come on guys, these four have made it a proper euros vs muricans competition. Join in!
I don't want to be graded, and I could answer a couple more of those with educated guesses; but like Seuss, I disagree with the premise of your quiz.
I'll take your failure to answer those questions for the countries I listed as acknowledgement that you're simply being pretentious about this. Mr. Uppity would be proud.
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United States47024 Posts
On September 17 2015 00:34 Ketara wrote:
Hey no reading other peoples answers till tomorrow.
I was going to ask, do people lose points for incorrectly naming countries for the bordering countries one? Cuz otherwise someone could just name every Southeast Asian country they can think of.
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ketoro cant tell me what to do
fight the power
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Questions:
+ Show Spoiler +
1 - what is the biggest religion in Thailand?
Buddhism
2 - what kind of government does Thailand have?
Monarchy
3 - what language do Thai people speak?
Thai
4 - what countries border Thailand? (1 point per correct answer)
Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia... I'm not sure. In my defense at one point about 5 years ago I was able to name every country in the world (thank you sporkle)
5 - what is the main sport in Thailand?
football(soccer)
6 - what are Thai martial arts called?
muy thai (lol i hope)
7 - name one food from Thailand.
pho, the name of the sandwich escapes me.
8 - what is the capital of Thailand?
Bangkok
9 - what is Thai currency called?
no clue
10 - what is one city in Thailand other than the capital?
ehhh nothing comes to mind
But I'm still in the "this is trivia and not education" camp.
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EPT
