Add whatever country to the list. No plane, train, or automobile enters U.S. service, with U.S. registration, without it meeting U.S. standards. It would not be much of a stretch to allow a foreign built ship into U.S. service, under the U.S. flag, after meeting USCG standards.
I work as a ship’s agent now on the West Coast and I see Ro-Ro after Ro-Ro of “American” cars being imported from the Republic of Korea. Conversely, I see a VW plant in Chattanooga and a KIA plant in West Point, GA. Things will eventually equalize as parts of the supply and manufacture chain will optimize American labor and foreign labor.
If the U.S. shipbuilding requirement didn’t exist to the extent it did today, America’s Finest wouldn’t have had to jump through hoops to be permitted to U.S. service.
Georgia, South Carolina what is the difference, it’s all in the South and full of Rednecks.
Now calling everything to do with Norway as Scandinavia and Scandinavians is really bad. (Confusing Denmark with Norway, or Norway with Sweden is already bad enough)
An investigation a couple of years ago found a lot of healthcare workers in the UK who were from Pakistan had bought fake qualifications, including doctors in very prominent positions.
This is the 5 NORDIC countries, shown on a a very rough map. (As is the knowledge of the countries by a majority of Americans)
BTW; the “Map” is lacking the Norwegian possessions of Svalbard and Jan Mayen, the Danish possession of Greenland and the Finnish Åland Islands.
PS> Scandinavia is the peninsula containing mainland Norway and Sweden, but we generously enough allow Denmark to call itself a Scandinavian country.
Finland and Iceland are Nordic countries, but not part of Scandinavia.
You know what people mean when they say Scandinavian. Sometimes you got to let them go with their preconceived generalizations. I learned this years ago when I started being a smart ass when meeting people from other countries while overseas. Someone would say,"I’m American. I’d say would that be north or south America? They’d say, uh north and I’d say so your Canadian? The exceptions were Texans. Invariably when I asked where they were from they didn’t say america, they just said Texas which is actually very close to being part of north america.
You might want to let these guys know that they got it wrong.
That was the source for the map. But how could they possibly know as much as you?
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Geography isn’t taught as much as it used to be. Knowing the continents was a requirement for getting out of elementary school when I was a child. Now? For entertainment show a kid a map of the world and ask them to point out where they are currently located. For that matter show an adult the same thing.
I had a young guy that had an unlimited ticket in a class once clearly had a decent education, all the other students in awe as he was about 30 yrs old or something, full of himself.
Got to the part where the outline of the world map came up for the UTM discussion, he was unable to find Singapore on the map, I could see he couldn’t recognize any of the shapes, he was Indonesian.
Lots of giggles from the others in the class that obviously could.
I found out he was baby sitting a large vessel when off hire in Singapore for probably $250/day?
mates $150, 2nd $60 typically
For those that dont know Indonesia has cabotage law and its designed to keep the expensive skilled people out… (the irony is its to prevent the locals from finding out how much they earn)
