'have never heard of half those states, the united states are so big'

As an educated American, I tend to avoid the one's who don't know such locations are located outside the U.S.

as an Australian that lived in America, I found it comical that it was easy to "Pull the wool over people's eyes". Got pulled over when driving on my Queensland, Australian, driver's license. When the state trooper asked what "Queensland" was, and i said it's a state in Australia, he asked "what is that?" At first i was dumbfounded by the lack he had no idea that other countries had states. I had to point out America had 50 states, Australia had 7 states and territories and other countries have the same or call them provinces. State Trooper, position of authority that needs a certain level of intellect to make a correct decision in dangerous situations, didn't know what a "State" was

Didn't know this was a grammar essay, next time I'll make sure to spend hours going over every letter and punctuation to ensure everything is of proper order for a guest that doesn't know what the reply button does.

Unpopular opinion - when you make grammatical errors you undermine your own argument. Your ethos is compromised when you aren't conscientious about grammar. Guest is still an idiot for pointing it out, though.