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You might care to learn the difference between Norway and Denmark.

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!"

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

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

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

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... ;)

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

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!!)

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

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

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

I would not mind if they pay Norwegian fines to Denmark

Almost the same currency name anyways.

at least by name

That's easy, Norway has mountains and Fjords and Denmark is flat.

If you're talking about the Kingdom of Denmark (and not the Country of Denmark) then there is Gunnbjørn, Greenland, 3700 m. ;)

Silly me. Of course, they don't do blood-eagle in Norway for non-payment of fines. Lucky escape for Zuck. :)

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