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0 pointswaihtis2y ago0 comments

Tangential, but it's a hilarious stereotype of Americans how they just bunch together the whole of Northern Europe. I'm a Finn, and in 9/10 cases when an American learns this, they tell me about their travels in Sweden or Norway.

Can't help but think the correct protocol here is to respond to them "Oh you're American? Nice, I've been to Mexico!"

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mikro2nd2y ago

Wait until you mention you're from an African country... :)

"Oh, yeah! I've been to Africa!"

jncfhnb2y ago

Americans tend to identify by a state or city. The proper retort here is to bundle together different states.

CalRobert2y ago

"I live in Ireland" "Oh I LOVE the UK!"

got that (and variations of it) more than once..

ahoka2y ago

I think there are a lot of Americans who don’t know that New Mexico is in the US, so…

CalRobert2y ago

In fairness if you're an American from Uruguay you wouldn't have a lot of interest in the internal political boundaries of that area like an Estadounidense would.

(though I suppose you could be an Estadounidense from the Estados Unidos Mexicanos - it's really not the best continent for disambiguation!!)

xxs2y ago

The OP's site address is .uk, very unlikely to be US based.

mikro2nd2y ago

I made no such assumption; merely pointed out that the original post is about Norway, but the commenter appeared to have confused it with Denmark. Could happen to anybody, really... ;)

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0 pointswaihtis2y ago0 comments

Can't help but think the correct protocol here is to respond to them "Oh you're American? Nice, I've been to Mexico!"

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mikro2nd2y ago

Wait until you mention you're from an African country... :)

"Oh, yeah! I've been to Africa!"

jncfhnb2y ago

Americans tend to identify by a state or city. The proper retort here is to bundle together different states.

CalRobert2y ago

"I live in Ireland" "Oh I LOVE the UK!"

got that (and variations of it) more than once..

ahoka2y ago

I think there are a lot of Americans who don’t know that New Mexico is in the US, so…

CalRobert2y ago

In fairness if you're an American from Uruguay you wouldn't have a lot of interest in the internal political boundaries of that area like an Estadounidense would.

(though I suppose you could be an Estadounidense from the Estados Unidos Mexicanos - it's really not the best continent for disambiguation!!)

xxs2y ago

The OP's site address is .uk, very unlikely to be US based.

mikro2nd2y ago

I made no such assumption; merely pointed out that the original post is about Norway, but the commenter appeared to have confused it with Denmark. Could happen to anybody, really... ;)

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