“A woman asked me if leprechauns are real in Ireland.
I told her they were and lived in trees.
She was so excited.
This lady was a student at Harvard.”
Sometimes people really assume some wild things about other countries.
TheBuzzFeed Communityrecentlysharedthings people have been very wrong about when it comes to the country they live in.
Here is what some people shared:
1.
“When I first moved to Canada someone asked me where I was from.
I told them Barbados, in the Caribbean.
They asked me if it was a part of Jamaica.”
wickedsquirrel90
2.
He totally believed me!"
purpleowl23
3.
Dont get me wrong, we actually have plenty of ranchers and cows and horses.
We live in a rural area with lots ofanimalsand kids.
But most people here have never ridden a horse."
“I am from Tennessee and went on a travel tour toFrancefor 10 days.
The large group with us was fromHawaii.
They asked us if we wore shoes where I am from.”
jealouschef37
5.
“I work in tourism.
ellenc42f018350
7.
The server said, ‘I love yours too.’
The American said, ‘Oh, sweetheart, I don’t have an accent.'”
kpmull2
8. knr8269
9.
“A woman from Cambridge, Massachusetts, asked me if leprechauns are real in Ireland.
I told her they were and lived in trees.
She was so excited.
This lady was a student at Harvard.”
Modernization happens everywhere, not just in the USA or other Western countries."
shirleythecat
11.
What time do the deer turn into elk?
Where do you put all the snow during the summer?
How long does it take the gold to grow back once its been mined?
Do people actually live here?"
quizzypear57
12.
Maybe its just me, but I feel thats simplegeography.
What kind of developing world country do you live in?’
Just because we dont have a brand of cereal, doesnt mean we are living in a developing world!
I can go on and on.
And its truthfully really cringe."
mrslloyd
13.
Every time I travel, I get asked why I dont sound like the cast of the movieFargo."
jamanthameg
14.
“I had an American ask me what language we spoke in England.
I also had another American with his family ask me where England was in Ireland.
I said, it’s adjacent.
They didn’t get it.”
redglue322
15.
“I am Canadian and I live in a border state that we visit often.
I once had an American ask if we had paved roads in Canada.”
sillycake62
16.
Tourist: ‘Why not?’
Me: ‘Because you have been in Canada since your bus tour left Seattle eight days ago.'"
