She has lived in Canada her whole life and is White. She asked me if it were possible to own a building without owning the land that the building was on and I explained how it is and that's how many properties on Indian land are setup. I then went in to say, it's not that common of a setup outside of Indian land as far as I know but apparently, it's fairly common in NYC according to Trump's book. She scowled almost immediately. "You read Trump's books?" I told her I did because I like to stay informed about things and it was actually a pretty good book that was written well before his political days that mostly focused on the real estate side. I told her I read Mark Carney's book also. "Who's that?" She replied. "You don't know who the Prime Minister of Canada is?" "I guess not because I don't know who that is" she replied.
And Canadians like to pretend they're more informed than Americans.
What about amurrica. We are talking about Canadians right now, do you need me to caveat every comment with a reference to the USA?
I blame the students because you can read a book. Many young people are highly literate despite poor education. You can basically access reading material on any subject for free, it's just laziness for most people. I'm lazier now too as most reading I do is just video games and internet commentary.