We get a lot of questions asked about Costa Rica everyday and some are very good and well others … well, let me put it this way, we wonder about the brain cells of some of the teachers that are teaching schools nowadays.
So in the last year, we have collected a bunch of questions that users have asked at Yahoo answers, Frommers, and other chat or forum or travel websites and thought we would published some of them without any editing.
All we did was cut and paste the questions in, so all the misspelling and grammar errors are from the person. It amazes me the lack of world history, common sense and basic knowledge that some have.
Enjoy these Costa Rica questions. And please forgive us, we aplogize if we have offended anyone.
Is Costa Rica in Mexico?
What island chain is Costa Rica located in? Please be specific. Thanks
Why do Mexicans and Costa Rico speke spanish?
I know Costa Rico is next to Hatti, so why dont they speak English?
what part of costa rican is in the united states?
What year did Costa Rica become a state of the United States?
Why don’t Costa Ricans speak English?
I have a bet with my brother. he says that Costa Rica is part of the US, and I say it is a state in South America (Plz – I have a lunch riding on this). Which one of us is right?
What part of the Caribbean is Costa Rica located?
Is there electricity in costa rica?
Where is the Englsih words Pura Vida come from?
What language is spoke in Costa Rica?
What part of a third world country is Costa Rica?
How many southern people live in Costa Rica?
Me and my friends are planning a trip to costa rico, but we are worried about mosquitos because my teacher says that many people die a year in costa rica from mosquito bites. If we do go down, what type of mosquito shots do we need?
Is Costa Rica a dictatorship? If so who was the last empire?
Help! I have a paper due in school on Monday, Who is the King and Queen of Costa Rica?
Are their Africans (Black people) that live in Costa Rica?
I’m doing a article for our school paper. I need to know, what Costa Rica harbor that the US warship was blowup in that started the Spanish-American war?
I read a article that the elephants going extinct in Costa Rica? Is this true and whz is the government doing about it?
Where is the best place I can see the Kolo Bears?
When are the Panda bears coming to Costa Rica?
Do panda bears live in Costa Rica?
Why are the people of Costa Rica so tan?
Why do they say Pura Vida, when they should be saying, pure life.
What does a banana plant look like in Costa Rica? Is it like a marijuana tree?
A friend told me that Costa Rica was very hot? But my sister says, that’s not true, because it rains alot. Who is right?
When did England conquered Costa rica?
I know Costa Rica was the first president, so how many presidents have there been since?
Where are the penguin tours in Costa Rica?
Do the people in Costa Rica speak, Mexican?
Podríamos todos llevarnos bien?
Can we all Get along?
People make worse stupid mistakes every single day, so it's not a big deal to me if they think I'm a tall mexican, or if they think Costa Rica's an island off the coast of West Africa lol!
I thought the questions were very funny.
Peace, Paz y Pura Vida!
Marla your comment is just xenophobic and full of lies. CR is not the perfect country, but we are known to be very well educated and polite to must of the foreign people who visit our country. I have never ever use a meal ticket, I have a Master Degree and I am a middle class costa rican, don’t generalize, it just makes you look kinda nazi. 😉
I lived there for 10 years and the people there are just as ignorant as they are anywhere.I lived with a native and his whole “not so wonderful” family. I’m not just a rare case either, apparently its very common. Girls chase gringos for a “meal ticket”. The guys chase the tourist women for a “meal ticket” as well. The whole family mooch off of them. Its a beautiful painting thats flawed and on the clearance aisle. The thing is that they have the opportunity for a free education and would rather drop out at the minimal requirement of 6th grade, and most do. Sooo…its really ashame that people will knock down the people of their own country, when they really need to take a closer look at the paradise they think is oh so dandy. I have traveled worldwide and Costa Ricans have to be the most unfortunate group of ignorants Ive ever crossed.
How many rings are in the Olympics symbols?… The red one is for America… as ONE continent. At least in Latin America we are taught that America is ONE continent. From Canada all the way to Argentina. And yes, I know that in some other areas of the World they teach it otherwise, but in mostly all they talk about the Americas as one continent divided in two big continental areas.
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/continents.htm
And about the questions… As a guide I thought I have heard the most stupid ones already… But the tourists got beaten! Wow! LOL!
Brilliant Blog! I am a travel consultant living in Costa Rica, and have been here for many years now, and I am from England. It is good to know that other people have to answer these kinds of questions as well!
And to ERIKA, who was so quick to jump on Jeanita… If you actually looked into the Continent subject a little more you will see that there can be actually 4, 5, 6 or 7 Continents depending on which way you look at it. So one does have to ask the question… Where did YOU study??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent
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Hi Steve, we posted a blog about your comment today –
https://ticotimes.com/costa-ricastalking-violent-predators-women
Two points of view, is the ignorance of some people from USA, Europe, etc. To me, the best way to know a place is asking to people born & raced there or natives. Get your mind & senses with a 20%20 vision, You can ask a foreign about CR, but you will get a foreign concept. You may ask foreign`s, How the people of CR, treats them in CR, & that will make sense ?. But some friends with small minds, think that in third world, world… there are no phones, clean water, etc. It is like asking to US citizens, if there is crime, drugs, etc in USA. CR is not Puerto Rico, or an island, or Mexico at all. The problem is that the majority people in USA, if you have an accent, short, look foreign, & brown, you are Mexican & illegal. In USA I learned from people born in USA! Not from CostaRicans in USA. However there are CostaRicans well educated too, not like me!. so, I give thank`s to people here that intent to clear some twisted minds about CR & its people. Let`s learn together & make a better place for all to enjoy. & when you ask, be humble, here & there. you will make friends everywhere. Amen
So funny, ignorance is funny sometimes.
TO JEANITA : Central America is NOT the name of a group of countries that sit in the south part of North America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JESUS!!! Central America is in the centre of a CONTINENT NAMED AMERICA!!!! Where did you study???
This was perfect. I live in Nosara and people ask me all the time how I enjoy the Island Life!!!
But as a Southern Belle From The United States, My Favorite on this list has to be the How Many Southern People Live in Costa Rica? Priceless..
Thank you! This is the funniest post I have read in a long time, I’m still laughing!!!
I can totally relate – I get a lot of stupid questions, too. The ones I receive are mostly asking about how I manage living in a third world country. *sigh*
You have a goldmine, I’m going to spread this around
I taught for years and my favorite subject to teach was Earth Science in high school because kids had to learn about the continents, oceans, weather patterns, how the world has changed and deal with all sorts of challenging “what if questions” that they didn’t get elsewhere.
When I was in grade school geography, where one learned about other countries and cultures, was a required class–we also had music, science, art, recreation,and homeroom for an hour in morning and and hour after lunch which was where we learned reading, writing and arithmetic,as well as spelling, phonics,and manners. This was in the 50’s in a little town in Oklahoma… Separate classrooms and separate teachers for each subject. Each teacher had the supplies and material needed to do a good job in their specialty. Can you find an elementary school today that has an hour of music and art each day? Now we do contained classrooms, use all sorts of gimmicks to get the attention of the kids who are brain dead from all their electronic gadgets, have no patience for hard work, or attention span to seek out hard answers. Teachers
are required to teach to a test the students will be required to pass at the end of each school year usually written down by some committee somewhere who decides what kids should know by each age. Teachers are not allowed to really teach the subjects that they are passionate about but graded on some outsider’s curriculum who may never have set foot in the school.
But hey…how many know that Costa Rica is not part of the South American continent but part of the North American Continent. Some say it is in neither continent, but in a separate continent called Central America (which is actually the name of a group of countries that sit in the south part of North America). There is a lot of ignorance out there and the dumbing down of the USA education system will haunt us in many years to come.