I remember a while ago we had a show on Dutch television where the presenter would go to famous holiday spots (Ibiza, the Alps etc), find some Dutch tourists, give them a blank map of Europe (no words, names of cities or countries etc on it) and ask them to point out where they were.
I've seen stupidity, but that's top of the list :doh:
This old couple, skiing in the alps. Saw the map, went: "Well we're nowhere near water... so what about... urm... here"
She pointed at somewhere near Moscow
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Erik, only the Americans who follow the footy call your country "Holland", the rest know it as "The Netherlands". Poor bastards couldn't find Holland on the map
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Erik, for some reason that description your friend gave talking with Americans about Holland seems to pop up a lot in European critiques of our Nation. There always seems to be some mention of Americans not knowing about countries such as Holland or Belarus, and I just find that appalling. I don't know what idiots your friend was talking to, however it's strange because all the people I hang out with have indeed heard of places like Holland. You have to be an idiot to not have heard of Holland...even Kanye West knows about AmsterDAM.
Yeah I'm going to question him on that; ask him what type of people he hangs out with and remind him of some of his dodgy Dutch friends that I met who wouldn't have been able to tell you the capital city of Belgium. I think it's more to do with him than anything else
I've met quite a few Americans when I still worked as a tourguide and by far most of them were quite well acquinted with my country so no complaints from me.
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Well, one thing you need to understand is there are a few americas within america. It's a bit complex. As far as not knowing Holland that's ridiculous, most americans refer to it as Amsterdam though

And yes it is the greatest country on the planet and i have done my share of travelling. Girls are easy, coffee tastes like kaka, my hunch is your buddy is staying at a suburb in which case I truly feel for him
Nope, university campus. Prolly where the easy girls are I suppose? That's usually the case over here anyway
