If the British didn't rape every nation they colonized, I'd be fine with it

On that note, if only the French didn't incite the whole Cochinchina Campaign that eventually led to the Second Indochina War/Vietnam War....

I'd be fine with it.

I'm going to sleep. Rage ish not good for teh soul.

The British were no better than America is now. Probably worse, IMHO

Sorry for the late reply.

Actually, yes, I can.
At school, we had to learn the location of all countries in the world, and the location of their capital city.

Nowadays, mostly everyone has to do that. It can't be used as a ruler for ignorance anymore. (Although, in the rare case when people can't name a single country in a given region, it's quite laughable now.)

In speaking with people educated elsewhere, I've always gotten the impression that they are generally far better educated about American geography and politics than we are about non-American geography or politics. Most non-Americans I've known are able to discuss American geography/politics much more intelligently than the typical American I know would be able to discuss, say, those of the UK, Germany, China or Japan.
Speaking solely from personal experience, there's a huge range in quality of public education from region to region in the US. I attended primary school in a backwoods, rural county in North Carolina, but that school was far advanced compared to the nearby school system (supposedly one of the best in the state) to which I transferred at age 10.
At my first school, by the end of 4th grade we were required to know all 100 counties in NC and their county seats, all 50 US states and their capitals, all European countries and their capitals, all Canadian provinces and capitals, and all of the US presidents up to that point (Reagan), and their years in office. When I moved to the "better" urban school system in 5th grade, those students had learned only the states and their capitals, but most had already forgotten them or had not really learned them in the first place.

Of course, that's not so bad considering that, years later, most of my fellow students at university couldn't spell even basic English words.

I can't find the citation, but there was a survey of GRADUATING high school seniors in Texas some time in the 90s in which they were asked "What is the country that borders Texas to the south?"
Something like 70% of those surveyed could not answer correctly.

I'll never forget when one of the less gifted girls in my 10th grade history class was asked to stand beside the wall map and point to the areas being named, and she was utterly stumped by the first one:
ASIA.

I also have a sad, sad, situation like this. Once, in the 7th grade, when a girl (who was part of the "popular group,") was caught socializing, and told to identify Cuba on a map, right after we took a quiz on the Caribbean. She was utterly stumped, and stared at Patagonia for a couple minutes until the teacher started laughing.

And I agree that urban schools aren't necessarily the best. I go to a High School ranked in the top 50 within the United States, and ask anyone in the halls who wrote Harry Potter or the Lord of the Rings, and most likely, they won't know. Same goes if you ask them what the chemical formula for table salt is (everyone has to take at least a semester of generalchemisrty). Although if you ask then about Disney, or Celebrities, they could probably tell you everything that's possible to know.

I'm very sure there are ignorant people that aren't American

Ignorance and stupidity are everywhere. The difference is the ignorant person can be taught but the stupid one cannot.