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alt texttweet 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

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[–] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stereotypes are literally not true, that's my entire point. Believing them makes you an ignorant moron.

[–] Masimatutu@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.”