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Raven-Symone knows all the "continents" in Europe and Africa!

It continues to amaze me how limited many Americans' knowledge is of world geography. To many long-time residents of this country, it seems as if they feel the United States makes up 1/2 of the planet, with another 1/4 being water, and the other 1/4 being countries like England, Australia, China, and that one other one they can't think of at the moment. Former actress of the Cosby Show  and star of the show That's So Raven , Raven-Symone, continued this seeming trend with a comment she made in a recent interview with E! News. In this interview, the actress said the following:  "I never said I wasn't black, I said I wasn't African-American -- to me that's a difference. Thank you to Ancestry.com for sending me my DNA test ... I am from every continent in Africa except for one and I'm also from every continent in Europe except for one." Yeah, it's too bad Ancestry.com didn't also send her a map and a dictionary, with bookmarks in th...