Why does everybody think that Venezuela is a state from Mexico?

Question

Vene zuela is acctually a country and it is on the top of South america to the right of colombia.

Answer 1

Most of the people on this site could not tell you where the

  states are located in these United States (or their capitals),

  let alone where Venezuela is.  Ask them to name all the

  South American countries.  That will be fun to watch.

Answer 2

Because people are ignorant about geography.

One guy actually asked a friend of mine what to call a person from Hong Kong.

Um, Chinese?!

Answer 3

Those are probably the same people that think New Mexico is a foreign country.

Answer 4

no i dont i know it is a country

Answer 5

Really? They think that? Well that's very strange, what I've been asked before is "In what part of Puerto Rico is Venezuela?" lol

Answer 6

Who thinks this? If they someone does it because they don't know anything about geography.

Answer 7

A lot of people have a lack of cultural knowledge, specially in geography, history and other subjects that when in school are boring, northeless never care enought to learn.

I have been ask in which State is Venezuela. This has been asked several times in the US

Answer 8

That is why our education system is degrading in this country. Everyone wants convenience at their fingertips. No one wants to actually get to a public library and read anymore.

Answer 9

because they were probably asleep during geography class...

Answer 10

Because the only latin american country that most Americans know about is Mexico. So everytime you mention a place that sounds even remotely spanish, they instantly assume it's in Mexico. American's don't really look down south too much...

Thankfully, though, each day more and more Americans are starting to be aware of Venezuela as a country, (unfortunately thanks to Mr. Chavez...) There are six Venezuelans in my class and in my whole school there are about 15-18.