Oh No You Didn't!!!!
Switzerland:
Country I grew up in (German: Schweiz, French: Suisse, Italian: Svizzera, Romansh: Svizra), officially the Swiss Confederation (Confoederatio Helvetica in Latin, hence its ISO country code CH), is a landlocked country of 7.5 million people in Western Europe with an area of 15,940 square miles. It's capital city is Bern and exports are knowledge, chocolate, cheese, banking and little ol' me.
Sweden:
Officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket Sverige), is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It has been a member of the European Union since 1995. Its capital city is Stockholm. 173,732 square miles, exports iron, copper and timber and has 9.1 million, supposedly blonde inhabitants.
In my 33 years on this planet I get the fact that people don't understand the difference between Switzerland (my native country) and Sweden (not my native country). I've also gotten used to being called Swedish and asked "why aren't you blonde" about a million times.
I expect these things, especially in American (sorry) and I've made peace with them.
EUROPEAN JOURNALISTS, however don't have a single freggin excuse to confuse the two, so it was hard to deal with when the below showed up in my RSS feed....
The erroneous article headline has since gotten fixed, probably after some Swiss person opened up a can of "Neutral Whoop-Ass" or threatened to attack them with my new favorite gadget
Country I grew up in (German: Schweiz, French: Suisse, Italian: Svizzera, Romansh: Svizra), officially the Swiss Confederation (Confoederatio Helvetica in Latin, hence its ISO country code CH), is a landlocked country of 7.5 million people in Western Europe with an area of 15,940 square miles. It's capital city is Bern and exports are knowledge, chocolate, cheese, banking and little ol' me.
Sweden:
Officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket Sverige), is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It has been a member of the European Union since 1995. Its capital city is Stockholm. 173,732 square miles, exports iron, copper and timber and has 9.1 million, supposedly blonde inhabitants.
In my 33 years on this planet I get the fact that people don't understand the difference between Switzerland (my native country) and Sweden (not my native country). I've also gotten used to being called Swedish and asked "why aren't you blonde" about a million times.
I expect these things, especially in American (sorry) and I've made peace with them.
EUROPEAN JOURNALISTS, however don't have a single freggin excuse to confuse the two, so it was hard to deal with when the below showed up in my RSS feed....
The erroneous article headline has since gotten fixed, probably after some Swiss person opened up a can of "Neutral Whoop-Ass" or threatened to attack them with my new favorite gadget
I feel your pain. I am from Sweden, and constantly have Americans ask about the alps/mountains, watches and chocolate...
How can it be so hard to tell the difference? I know the difference between Idaho and Ohio...
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Still, to this day, some of my friends in Dallas refer to Swedish NHL players as being "from my neck of the woods". Uhm, that's a big fat NO. I am from the land of cheese, chocolate, watches and yes, Rolexes. I think I will start to refer to my dear American friends as Canadians. See how much they like that....HA!
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