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You have to be pretty skilled to mess up that badly
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tweet by Melanie Balke: If you're having a bad day just remember that the Salzburg airport has a counter for people who flew to Austria instead of Australia
Edit: Dang it's fake
Yes, I am perfectly aware, and again, I apologise. But the British and Irish are too close to Austria to possibly make such a mistake, and New Zealand and English speaking Oceania are too close to Australia, and the rest of the English-speaking world is either too small or too poor to be significant.
And, while it is by no means a good way of thinking about people, stereotypes are based on something, and in this case, it might have something to do with that Americans, due to the size of their country, don't interact with the rest of the world quite as much. Again, I am not trying to say that this is an accurate representation of reality in any way.
Edit: typo
Stereotypes are literally not true, that's my entire point. Believing them makes you an ignorant moron.
Stereotypes not applying to everyone does not mean they apply to no one.
Check this out, for instance: https://www.cfr.org/news-releases/americans-lack-knowledge-international-issues-yet-consider-them-important-finds-new