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Folks, is it really so hard? I mean, I have to pause too sometimes and think about which country is Latvia and which one is Lithuania, or which one is Kyrgyzstan and how to spell it. But… if I had to prepare a map for a newspaper, I think I would find the five seconds necessary to just google it and make sure. Doing an image search for "Slovakia map" takes 0.15 seconds and gives you everything you need to know, including the important fact that it’s not Slovenia.
Of course, it could be a clever photoshop. Then again, stranger mistakes have been made recently.
(Thanks to fellow Slovenian blogger Lemuel and his wonderful This Blog will be Deleted by Tomorrow!)
UPDATE: The Slovak Spectator is confirming that the map appeared in USA Today: US confusion over Slovakia. And, to add to the chaos, The Daily Czech notes that the White House has mistakenly listed Slovakia’s President Ivan Gasparovic as Czech President Vaclav Klaus, here.
UPDATE 2: USA Today has printed a correction.
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the only positive side of this is that we can get into war with america and slovakia takes it up the…erm….
speaking from a journalistic point of view, the people writing the article should be fired on the spot. Fscking idiots.
man … this is hard wired. u can’t help it
On Austrian radio news they said this morning that Mr. Bush’s visit to Bratislava might help the world outside to finally be able not to mix up Slovakia and Slovenia anymore …
novala, so much for that. Until people can get miniature atlas microchips implanted in their brains, this will continue forever.
By the way, according to this Slovenian blogger from Bratislava, the picture above appeared in USA Today. If you don’t know them, they have the highest circulation of any newspaper in the United States. (2.25 million copies every weekday.) Worldwide, they’re #2 among English-language papers.
Bush himself greeted Mr. Drnovsek as a Slovakian politican! That was back in April 1999 when Bush was a Texan guvernor and Drnovsek was still Slovenian prime minister.
Damn, my friends in the US were making such a nice progress placing me in the map. This is a setback of several months. Sigh.
“Until people can get miniature atlas microchips implanted in their brains, this will continue forever.”
Amongst other things, yes.
I just took the elevator. I asked a guy I didn’t know to wait so I could get in, too. We joked around and all he had to do in the end was to imitate Hitler. So much for never-ending stories. Not the same as the SK/SLO-mix up, of course. It just happened. *sigh*
Hey, thanks for the plug. In the end, Bush managed to get here, he delivered his speech, shook hands with the unwashed masses (including me) and after this high point of his trip he is now prepared to meet Putin.
slovene national radio also said this morning that this time around nobody confused slovenia and slovakia…..
Good thing he made it. I could almost imagine him landing here in Slovenia, and saying: “I am proud to be here today. In the proud state (sic) of Slovakia.”
Or maybe, “… the proud continent of Slovakia.”
What I find interesting about this is that they manage to fit Bratislava into the map of Slovenia. Did they take a dot and throw it onto the map or how did they managed to put Bratislava where they did on the map?
Apparently, Bratislava is on the south end of Piranski zaliv. In that case, we might want to consider backing out of our claims
I’m not a big fan of Bratislava, although it has been some time since I’ve been there.
We should rename the country and get it over with.
Is it really so difficult to pick up an atlas when writing an article for a major publication?
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Ignorance, or arrogance? Both are outcome of globalization!!! One day everything will be… Guess what!
Well I have a classmate at the COLLEGE level who did not know if her FATHER came from Bulgaria or if he is CZECH! I said ‘hmm Bulgaria is rather a long ways from Czech Republic, and the culture is really different between the two places…’
My son sums up this lazy attitude the best..
‘In America, anyone who’se ancestors came from Europe is just WHITE.. if you care about anythikng further then you are a racist..’
Anyway I find that attitude nutty.
Yeah I suppose one could be too obsessive cumpulsive the other way, I mean obsessing over an exact village and which street on it … but seriously…
I’d fire the incompetants that could not look in an atlas (Those funny books with maps in them) or on Google, or ask a teacher or something damn.
Greetings to the bloggers of The Glory of Corinthia!
I think it is dispicable that, even today, the press confuses your two proud, yet very dissimilar nations. I remember clearly back in 2001 when I met Mr. Putin in Slavonia, I looked him in the eye and I said, “This is why my voucher program is so needed in American schools”. I then went back to my ranch in Texas, and after huntin gophers with Barney, decided to cut our education budget by 2.3 billion US dollars just to show these teachers that they need to shape up.
It is great to see your nation has come so far since succeeding from the old USSR. I look forward to visiting the fine nation of Slovicia in the near future as I continue to improve inter-ocean relations between the Great nations of Europe and thier great friends in the United States.
Thank you, and may God continue to bless the United States of America.
Mr. George W. Bush