After the Boston Marathon bombing, one of my buddies (masters cum laude in history) posted a long series of socially conscious rants about white elites unfairly demonizing the suspects for being brown people. I had to explain that Chechnya is right in the middle of the Caucasus mountain range. "Oh."
They had to fudge the demographics in the 1930 census because so many people from Georgia, Texas, etc identified themselves as South American.
I knew a guy who spent weeks drooling over bargains in a UK computer magazine without realizing that £ was not a dollar sign.
My buddy in Santa Fe gets into arguments with customer support people over whether New Mexico is part of the United States.
They had to fudge the demographics in the 1930 census because so many people from Georgia, Texas, etc identified themselves as South American.
I knew a guy who spent weeks drooling over bargains in a UK computer magazine without realizing that £ was not a dollar sign.
My buddy in Santa Fe gets into arguments with customer support people over whether New Mexico is part of the United States.