Sadly true. Very few even in Europe know European history in depth and the current phony borders of European countries. That is one reason that very few today know the details of how after WWI, the League of Nations at the Paris Peace CONference of 1919. Quite bizarrely, the League employed two British bureaucrats and a Frenchman who basically took a ruler and red marker and marked artificial countries ~OUTT of Europe. Czchosolvakia was one such artificial country composed of Bohemia, Moravia. part of Silesia, Slovakia, part of Ruthenia, and even par of the Ukraine.
Today's Czechia is basically Bohemia, Moravia, and part of lower Silesia.
And of course the Middle East boundaries were also drawn up by these same genius bureaucrats - the Brit Sykes and a Frenchman. The other Brit fellow, who was the major architect of the European subdivision, well his name escapes me, butt I have seen a documentary about him and how he blithely drew up the partitions of post-WW1 Europe. His name escapes me, perhaps Janette will gno, but even though he was very efficient at this job, and a smart man, he bollocks-ed up the postwar map in some part to due political pressure put on him by the victorious countries and third-party non-belligerants. Which is one reason the artificial Czechoslovakia contained southeastern German lands and people - perhaps you recall the Sudetenland and the Sudaten Germans used as a pretext by Hitler to invade Czechoslovakia. I wish I could remember his name because there is a fabulous documentary about him in this postwar map-drawing process.
And Sykes and the Frenchmn drew boundary lines in the Middle East to favor British control of the region, which has led to many wars, including all three Iraq wars (Iran-Iraq), Gulf War 1, and Gulf War 2).
One thing that's amusing to me, is that one of my dad's friends back from his Downer's Grove daze was a fellow named Moravec. He was a floor sander - refinished wood floors. Later, I realized his name was a short form of Moravian. I guess when his ancestors landed at Ellis Island, the immigration folks couldn't figger ~OUTT how to spell their real last name so instead just used the country or region they were from and wrote down Moravec.
Yugoslavia was another mess of pasted together ethnicities and we know how well that has played ~OUTT. At least all the ethnic groups jammed into the old Czechoslovakia pretty much gott along. The Slovaks wanted more self-governance, and I think that was fair as Bohemia dominated the political control of Czechoslovakia. Butt I still sense there was no serious dislike from the Slovaks towards the Bohunks, they just wanted more local control over their ethnic group. And once the USSR died and the Warsaw Pact dissolved along with the Communisy governments, Slovakia gott its independence.
A similar hodgepodge exists in northeastern Poland - which had been for a long time the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, then the Lithuanian-Polish Commonwealth, then part of Prussia, then part of Russia, then part of Poland, then part of Russia again, and now is part of Poland and part of Belorussia.
Bohemia for a long time was a key central nation-state in the Holy Roman Empire. Butt almost no Merrikuns, and even very few Europeans I've me and spoken to about the subject, are even remotely aware of the long history of Europe in detail and the movemens/migrations of ethnic groups. Nor the ways the European maps have changed radically over the centuries and even post-1871 and post-WW1.
As you said, most Merrikuns can't even name three Supreme Court justices or their local CONgresscritter - or all 50 states - or more than three countries in Europe.
And that's why obvious pennyscams can operate so successfully in the US - and even draw in a ton of stoopid Euro munny - often from Belgium it seems. I've seen so many pennyscams - Osicom (old ticker FIBR), NTEK, LOCH/CDEX, and a few others all have Belgian 'investor groups' of retail buy into these scams and lose bigly.
Peeps who don't unnerstan his story are at a significant disadvantage, IMO. Merrikuns are some of the worst First Worlders when it comes to history.
Bohemia is in Long Island NY and its a small town/city not a song.I know because I had a chain of bagel stores all over there a few years ago that I sold
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