I've never met an adult who actually believes that Africa is a country and not a continent. Everyone knows what he meant by Africa, clarification shouldn't have been needed. Here's a hint: The concept of Africa is not a foreign one for Americans. For many obvious reasons.

I'm 30 years old and from the South. When I was a child evolution was the only acceptable subject that could be taught in science class. We discussed the religions of the world, including Christianity, in social studies. They were discussed and evaluated through an academic lens. In freshman Biology a girl raised her hand and asked the teacher: "Do you really believe in evolution?" with an astonished look on her face. The rest of the class snickered and the teacher said that of course she did. It was truly funny to the rest of us that she would be that sheltered. Fundies where a lot less common back then. There were one or two in each class but most people were only passively religious if at all. We weren't exactly in the boonies but we were in a small city bordered on all sides by about fifty miles of rural farmland. It frightens me how much and how fast things have changed. On Slashdot the European readers love to scoff at the backwards Americans but just ten years ago this sort of thing would be laughable. My great-grandmother was devoutly religious, my grandmother is religious, my mother was barely religious, and I am not religious at all. This is the trend that I grew up with and what I saw in most of my friends' lives. Somewhere along the line things shifted and that trend reversed.

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You what their what? Are you really that hard or are you just talking? My guess is the latter. Freedom is not free and that's not just some redneck catch phrase.