Klara keeps referring to things “back home in America.” I have not been able to impress upon her that we are currently also in America.
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Klara keeps referring to things “back home in America.” I have not been able to impress upon her that we are currently also in America.
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My youngest does this as well. I don’t know what age they typically figure out that states are all part of the same country, but it’s very funny 😀 We *live* here, and he’s still skeptical that FL is just a subset of America, and not its own country like Peru or Canada or something.
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“what age they typically figure out that states are all part of the same country”
When I was in second grade or so, a classmate went to Georgia (I think the Atlantic coast) and brought back pictures which our teacher thought we should see.
I kept thinking it was a foreign country and thought it was terribly exotic……
I also remember Wild Kingdom and thought Mutual of Omaha was some kind of government organization in the state of Omaha…
Geography is not an automatic skill…..
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We look at it on the globe and everything. Has not registered yet.
But then, when we were kids, we were pretty sure that snow was fake because it only happens in movies. The really, truly, exotic and wonderful thing that captivated us on our first big Road Trip Up North was… rocks. Like “Mom, Dad, can we stop the car and look at those rocks?!” at every road-cut and rest area. +10 minutes to climb on rocks. OH LOOK LOOK THERE’S WATER RUNNING DOWN THOSE ROCKS!!! We must’ve got home with bucketloads of little rocks tucked into every bag, shoe, and nook in the car.
Rocks are still kind of magical.
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SA is unusual in Africa that snow is a regular thing. This year we even had snow in the desert.
https://snowbrains.com/rare-snowfall-transforms-south-africas-cederberg-mountains-into-winter-wonderland/
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It’s hard to see it as the same country when nobody speaks English. And nobody looks like they do at home. This area really changed in just 3 years. It’s like the people who used to live here were lifted up in a spaceship and new people were brought in.
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A cat5 hurricane does that. Bunches of people leave, because there’s a housing shortage. People who were renting don’t come back. People who owned… depends on who won, when they went to battle with the insurance company. Either way, you lose a lot of lower-wage labor, and it gets replaced by temporary work visa people, among others. Single people willing to live 9 to an apartment.
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Yes. It’s not easy to look at the devastation of familiar and dearly loved area. There are hopeful signs but many things are just gone.
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Our area recovered. It’s slow going though.
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Yeah, the US has crazy weather. We don’t have hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, or tsunamis, and AC is pretty much optional. This probably has a lot to do with why people are so slack about demanding more from the government.
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Well, the states were originally different countries, as Australia and Canada were created by unifying distinct colonies.
The British wanted to unify SA based on the Canadian model. This didn’t really work because there is no SA equivalent of Quebec.
Boer literally means farmer, but is really a more general term for country people. The difference being between town and country rather than regions.
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I think Klara is wiser than you assume.
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In her defense, it is a pretty huge and diverse country.
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