LINK Couple seeking marriage license forced to prove New Mexico is a state
The level of ignorance is frightening. Several years ago my daughter was trying to expedite her passport. She was speaking with a clerk in DC, they were trying to arrange express mail and pick up. She had already told the clerk she was in Omaha. The clerk then asks, "is Omaha anywhere near Seattle?" SMH
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I lived in Taos, NM for nine years and this stuff was more common than you would think. American tourists would ask if they needed to exchange their money. The magazine "New Mexico" would publish something once a month about Americans not knowing NM was actually a state. This is an example of the mentality that helped elect trump to the Presidency.
Sticks48
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Nov 30, 2018
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I know a woman from New Mexico. She told me a story about a couple from Minnesota pulling over to talk to her and a friend, both are Navajo. First they were asked if they speak English. When they confirmed that they did, the husband asked them where he could exchange his American money.
JimG
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Nov 30, 2018
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Please tell them I apologize for the whites. Cause GEES!!! That is some white peopling right there.
WUUUUT???? Even I know that as a Canadian!!!!
Lilac-JadeCanada
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Nov 30, 2018
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You know that "... as a Canadian"?
I grew up in Kenya, and now live in Spain, but I've known that New Mexico was a US state for longer than I care to remember. (I also know that it was originally Spanish, then Mexican, then independent and finallt ratified as a US state.)
@Petter I also meant the Omaha, Nebraska, part.
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