Gibberish Insults My Intelligence

It’s time for today’s geography quiz.  No cheating!

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And now it’s time for today’s gibberish.  It comes to you from Vermont International Academy in Shanghai.  If I may quote from their mission statement:

Drawing from Western, Eastern, and Vermont values, Vermont International Academy is a replicable model of world-class American college preparatory education set in Shanghai, China. Shanghai, developed over 1,000 years ago as an important seaport in the Yangtze Delta region in Eastern China, provides an ideal site for international education.

So the correct answer to the poll was “C” for “somewhere else.”  Vermont is not part of the East or the West.  Feel free to enter your definitions of “Vermont values” in the comments section.  Warning: I expect your definitions to be free of anything that could be construed as Eastern or Western values because Vermont is something else.