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Originally Posted by Reaves
One thing to remember about Americans is that there are a LOT of states in the USA. I'm sure they'd learn local geography before international and that's going to be pretty hard.
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Hmmm. We Americans do tend to have problems there. People from the east coast of the U.S. (those for whom "there is no life west of the Chesapeake Bay")
do mix up the names of Ohio, Iowa, and Idaho, and aren't always convinced there's really a difference. There are tee-shirts poking fun at this that say "University of Ohio, Iowa City, Idaho". And, there are dozens of anecdotes of people from New Mexico being thought to be foreigners. The most recent one I heard was of someone from New Mexico trying to get tickets to the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, only to be told they had to contact their country's Olympic committee.
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