Czech Republic Ambassador: Don't Confuse Us With Chechnya

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/czech-republic-ambassador-dont-confuse-us-chechnya-131929282--abc-news-topstories.html

The Czech Republic and Chechnya are nearly 2,000 miles apart, but that didn't stop people from mixing up their geography.

The Boston Marathon bombing suspects, the Tsarnaev brothers, are of Chechen ethnicity. When the similar sounding Czech Republic, a country in Central Europe, began getting buzz online, the country's ambassador to the United States stepped in to clear up the social media confusion.

"The Czech Republic is trending because idiots are confusing it with Chechnya. If you're not sure whether to laugh or cry, cry," Chris Jones, a writer for Esquire and back-page columnist for ESPN The Magazine tweeted.

"As more information on the origin of the alleged perpetrators is coming to light, I am concerned to note in the social media a most unfortunate misunderstanding in this respect," Ambassador Petr Gandalovic wrote in a statement.

"The Czech Republic and Chechnya are two very different entities - the Czech Republic is a Central European country; Chechnya is a part of the Russian Federation," he said.

Chechens are an ethnic group hailing from the southern edge of the Russian border, known as the North Caucasus region, whose history has been marked by its violent struggles for independence. Chechnya, a republic, is bordered by Georgia.

Quelques commentaires :

Now these idiots are going to think Chechnya is in the USA ("bordered by Georgia)!

Ignorance has a love story with Americans and the sad thing is most of us just don't even care.

Wow how is the confusion even possible? How about googling it since they already on the computer?

When I came back from New Orleans a few weeks ago instead of asking how my trip went I was asked "what happened to Old Orleans?".true story......

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Quand je suis devenue américaine, je n'ai pas choisi la date de la cérémonie de naturalisation.

Comments

[keisha]

Du lourd, du lourd... ^_^

Je précise qu'Old Orleans va très bien, je l'ai traversée hier (toujours aussi long, d'ailleurs)

[Jackie Brown]

Oui, ça doit être difficile de lire à la bougie...

[Nuku_Hiva95]

C'est comme ceux qui voulaient envoyer un virus Internet aux talibans ! Ils sortent toujours de leur trou au bon moment ces ploucs-là.