A stupid college graduate relative of mine could not believe or understand why the European Ryder Cup team had any players on it from Great Britain, and no matter the rules (he had no idea what the rules were) he thought it was not right that some Brits were on the team. He thought and believes after Brexit Brits should not be part of a “European” team.
Of course his college educated mind equates the EU and Europe as synonyms, because what a college education does today, if nothing else, is to train a student to think in Leftist political terms, always.
If he can’t wrap his mind around this particular competition/exhibition, and its history, then I’m sure there are many, many, many other things he can’t comprehend as well.