This image from the internet is quite interesting. It is hard to grasp what a huge continent we live in! It's even more interesting that sometimes when people ask me where I live I just answer: Africa. Take a look at the right where Europe is marked within Africa and use a magnifying glass to find Sweden, where I grew up. Talk about contrast! I know that there has been some controversy on how the maps are being portrayed, but this image really makes it clear! One other prejudice people have about Africa is that we all lives in huts. I could not believe my ears when I met American students in England a few years ago and they where concerned that I was very poor. It's really an ignorant view of people in other parts of the world. I know that one can argue that USA is a very big country, and they have a lot to consider within their own borders but I still think this is extremely sad. When my parents lived in America, my mom told me that she often got blank stares when she said she came from Sweden. Finally she realised that no one knew what or where Sweden was so she said Scandinavia and that cleared things up a little bit. I find it really unthinkable that some are so ignorant about other countries. Luckily, my friends in ISK are not! The know things about the world that few other teenagers do, and most of them have lived in many countries on different continents.
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