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I left my phone nearby, knowing I'd get a phone call that would go something like this:

"Where is $random country, (usually one in Africa)?"

"In $appropriate geographical area."

"What about $other random country?"

"It's in $appropriate geographical description"

"I've never even heard of most of these places."

"I know that. You say that every time we watch the Olympics, Mom."

"Well I still don't know where these places are. How come you know?"

"Because I had to know where some of these places were back in high school Mom."

"Well Africa wasn't like that when I was in high school."

It's the same conversation we have every two years during the Olympics. And I point that out to her. It's like the conversation we'd have every year during Yom Kippur when we'd recite the Al Chait ("alphabet of sins") and Mom would lean over and say to me "What's Xenophobia?"

As Tevye said..."Tradition!"

Date: 2008-08-09 02:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com
Growing up, I used to think that any globe or map of Africa needed the countries to be replaceable, like Colorforms. :-)

Date: 2008-08-09 02:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iamlisabee.livejournal.com
Didn't your mom look at the little map they showed as they brought up each new country?

Tell your mom to watch closely next time!

Date: 2008-08-09 03:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cmariewt.livejournal.com
LOL! This made me laugh so hard!

Date: 2008-08-09 12:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aliki.livejournal.com
Brian and I tried to identify some of the more obscure countries before they showed it on the globe!

Date: 2008-08-09 09:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] also-huey.livejournal.com
Watched it in the bar, and played a neat new game called "Name that shithole!"

"What?"
"Uh... ...south pacific island shithole, I think."
"And this one?"
"Sub-saharan african dictatorship shithole"
"And?"
"Breakaway soviet shithole"
"Never heard of THAT-"
"Oh, that's cuz it's a relatively new, ethnically-cleansed baltic shithole"

Date: 2008-08-10 12:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whitebird.livejournal.com
I sense the need for an atlas...

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