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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

  • MasimatutuOPEnglish
    32·
    9 months ago

    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

    “Less than half of the respondents were able to identify Afghanistan as the country that provided al-Qaeda with safe haven prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, despite America having waged a war in Afghanistan due to this fact for nearly two decades.”

    “Just over half could identify Iraq on a map, even though one hundred thousand American soldiers were in the country just a decade ago.”