The equivalent would be instead of saying “the only good nazi is a dead nazi” you’re saying “the only good german is a dead german”. Or, alternatively, saying nazi to mean german.

I don’t blame anyone for feeling uncomfortable with countries that have done horrific shit to them in the past, that’s normal and fine. Translating that into a blanket hatred for its current population is not (it isn’t in general, but it’s hard to truly blame someone for just not liking people from a country they’re currently at war with by default, it’s kinda the natural reaction and they probably have other shit to deal with)

I’m mainly wondering how in the everloving fuck apparently the average guess for “live in new york city” is 30%? Surely that has to be trolls answering 100% skewing the average? The number of nyc residents i have floating around in my head is 20 million for some reason (which as it turns out is already a vast overestimation), which would be around 7% with the 330 million i have floating around for US population (which is pretty close to the real number)

I know the US education system isn’t great, but surely people at least have some very basic knowledge about their own country?

The bi thing is almost certainly your bubble. Younger generations (just gonna guess you aren’t beyond your mid thirties at most, if yes then I’d find your experience very surprising) skew more towards expressing non-hetero sexualities already, and being around more ideologically left-wing groups likely skews it heavily. It could also be that some people feel some same-sex attraction, but still identify as hetero.

The numbers do seem about right in general, bisexuality is a weird thing bc I’m also quite convinced some degree of it is extremely common, but that doesn’t mean all those people identify that way.

I’m really not sure europe is very different there, beyond the fact that european countries as a whole are more culturally diverse than US states, or the US vs. Canada. And even then many people only travel to tourist destinations within europe that won’t let you really experience a different local culture anyway.

It’s still probably true that europeans experience a bit more cultural diversity because it’s just easier to do, but I find it hard to blame the american people for that when so many are too poor to even think of traveling far, and experiencing something other than canada or mexico is significantly harder than to go e.g. from germany to romania.