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Statement of the Ambassador of the Czech Republic on the Boston terrorist attack

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Similar 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/Bri...

Just 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...

This reveals appalling ignorance of geography on the part of too many Americans.

It'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...

It's sad that this has to be officially announced.

CNN: "Q: Where are Chechens from? A: Not the Czech Republic"

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/20/tech/czech-republic-chechn...

At first I thought this was a joke, then I heard ex-CIA guy say "czech republic" on CNN while talking about those two.

Hope no one from Slovakia or Slovenia gets involved.

This reminds me of this one time in Iraq...

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