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Statement of the Ambassador of the Czech Republic on the Boston terrorist attack
- optiminimalist 14y agoIt's sad that this has to be officially announced.
- acheron 14y agoHope no one from Slovakia or Slovenia gets involved.
- gamegoblin 14y agoJust a few hours ago a girl at my university mentioned the men in Boston were Czech. I figured it was an honest mistake as Chechen and Czech sound somewhat similar. Didn't know it was widespread...
- tokenadult 14y agoThis reveals appalling ignorance of geography on the part of too many Americans.
- rdouble 14y agoIt's not too surprising in a country where my physics teacher would make comments about my Dutch grandparents (from Denmark) and what I thought of all those arab simoleans (Somalis) down in Minneapolis. And this was in Minnesota, where they have such a wonderful educational system...
- mladenkovacevic 14y agoThis reminds me of this one time in Iraq...
- dmishe 14y agoAt first I thought this was a joke, then I heard ex-CIA guy say "czech republic" on CNN while talking about those two.
- pella 14y agoSimilar misunderstandings : "One million British tourists mistake the Romanian capital Bucharest for Budapest, which is the capital of neighbouring Hungary, a study has revealed. Similar misunderstandings occur for several capitals in the world, the travelsupermarket.com survey shows. Over 100,000 tourist realise the misunderstanding only when they arrive in the wrong city. The misundertandings of Palma de Majorca and La Palma Islands, in Canare, Venice for Vienna and Libon (Portugal) and Lisburn (Ireland) are the most common among tourists. Mistaking Bucharest for Budapest ranks fifth in this top misunderstanding list. The study shows around 1,9 million tourists arrive at their destination with the wrong currency." source: http://www.romaniantimes.at/news/Panorama/2009-06-01/954/British%20mistake%20Bucharest%20for%20Budapest http://www.romaniantimes.at/news/Panorama/2009-06-01/954/Bri...
- pella 14y agoCNN: "Q: Where are Chechens from? A: Not the Czech Republic" http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/20/tech/czech-republic-chechnya/index.html http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/20/tech/czech-republic-chechn...