Soap Box 8/22/98
Country Confusion

Although it's summer, and rightfully I have no educational obligations, I still take time to enrich my mind with world news and diversity as long as it's countries with supermodels, who like to hang out at the local beaches and other spots. But I have had a huge concern lately, one that is important enough to be addressed on this web comentary thingy. The repetive, and numerous names of forein countries.

I saw something on the Austrians, so naturally I associated this with dingos, and kangaroos, on that huge island Australia. BUT NO! Apperantly there is a seperate country called Austria, totally seperate and non-affiliated with Australia. In fact this "Austria" is in Europe. Now I'm sure you'll agree that these names are much too similar, which leads to confusion. So I propose we abolish the country of Austria, evacuate the citizens, and turn it into a big desert. This would certainly end the confusion.

My crusade against repetive country names wouldn't end there though. New Mexico, you will rejoin Old Mexico, all states and countries with North and South counterparts such as North Carolina and South Carolina will meet in the middle and become one. And there won't be state capitols, I hated having to learn those in secound grade.

The last world change for the better will be that all countries must be a certain size. There are way to many countries right now, and we need to simplify. A Country must be at least as big as Old Mexico. And Europe will be one country, its fairly small anyway.

This may not seem like a pressing concern at the moment, but the way things are going, things can only get worse. Several years ago there was one big, simple, USSR. BUT NO! They had to break up and form several little countries. We can't let that happen again.

 

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