I can't see how you would be able to create good policy or engage in informed opinion generation about issues pertaining to the region if you don't understand the basic history, politics, demographics, and geography of said region.
I'm pretty sure that I would want ANYONE making a medical diagnosis of me to be familiar with the basics of the human body. Your attempted metaphor doesn't really work.
No they don't.
I'm starting to think that you don't know what an ethnic group even is.
I am starting to think that you failed sociology 101
As to geography and the particulars of demographics----
and OPINION on a genocide and enslavement of children
under the filth of shariah------nope---I don't really need
GEOGRAPHY ---or even the specific NAMES of the various ethnic groups------I am FAMILIAR enough with enslavement of non muslims-------my own mother-in-law escaped the FILTH YOU LICK