Israel: Palestine isn't a country.
US: it's a village in Ohio.
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Marvel: Batman is a hero.
Turkiye: It's a city.
Edit2: i can't believe no one caught my mistake of saying marvel instead of DC. Imma leave it there.
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9I work for the federal government and had a coworker get incredulous I over the phone because she didn't believe Georgia was a country. She eventually quit before she was fired but people get real ignorant when it comes to things outside of their immediate sphere.
I still remember when Russia invades Georgia was a headline and how confused Americans where.
7Pluto is a planet
4But why not :(
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What's the actual name of Georgia the country? Like how we call Turkiye Turkey, or Nippon Japan.
4საქართველო, apparently
10Sakartvelo if romanized. There is a page about them all.
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Fwiw the word you were looking for was "endonym", as opposed to the exonym of Georgia.
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Only English, Spanish or Italian speaking Europeans
3Georgia is a state. A sovereign state
3Yeah, all the other "countries" use the term "state" when referring to them in English. The US is the only place that has a 'federal' level 'above' states. If you're on Lemmy, you should have some idea of what federation means. This should all put in perspective what the original idea of the United States was and how much control each level was intended to have.
This also makes it all the more hilarious and stupid how Texans wanna call themselves a country. They don't even know the words they're using.
-4Fyi everything green on the following world map is a federation:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Map_of_unitary_and_federal_states.svg
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Por que no los dos?
2Ray Charles: It's on my mind
1Ah yes the two types of people, Americans and Europeans /s /jk
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