• Your Huckleberry@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I went to college with a Spanish guy, Milo I watched this exchange.

    Girl: “What kind of Spanish are you?”

    Milo: …

    Girl: “You know, like Mexican or Colombian or Puerto Rican?”

    Milo “No no, I’m from España”

    Girl: “But like, which country did you grow up in?”

    Milo: " España…uh Spain"

    Girl: …

    Me: “There’s a country in Europe called Spain, its the place where spanish originated, like England is where english originated.”

    Girl: “Duh”

    Me: “That’s where he’s from.”

    Girl: *suddenly realizes how dumb this whole exchange has been and dies of embarrassment.

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      11 months ago

      At least she acknowledged it, that’s better than other people in this situation

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      11 months ago

      No, can confirm there are far too many people this ignorant. I work with a good number of them. I’m in North Georgia, and some of these people literally can’t find themselves on a map of the United States and believe the English folks stole English from the Americans…

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        11 months ago

        That’s just crazy to me. Remembers me one time I was in Canada, and we were visiting a museum with First Nation People depicted.

        A woman I was with asked me “So, do you also have First Nations in Europe?”

        Well…

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        11 months ago

        Yes, because there are multiple Romance languages spoken in Spain, and they’re all “Spanish” to people who live there. Castellano is the one spoken in Madrid, so it’s what the rest of the world thinks of as Spanish, kind of like how Mandarin is often referred to as Chinese even though other dialects are equally Chinese.