That one question....

[Ravenouss]

Originally Posted by Nic

Not that long ago someone asked me "what part of Mexico" I was from. I said, "I'm from Panama." He just nodded. Didn't occur to me until later that he had no clue they were different countries. Too busy shaking my head over his assumption that all brown people he hears speaking another language must be from Mexico.

Maybe he knew and was embarrassed remembering once there was a war that killed 23 American soldiers and 10,000+ civilians in Panama because the U.S. had decided their friend Noriega wasn't a good friend anymore and had to be replaced.

BUT, I do know what you mean that "nodding." Most time it's the realization they had made an assumption . Often times it's the bewilderment (where is that country???) and sometimes the mild guilty from the knowledge that it is yet another of the countries that were in the wrong place at the wrong time in U.S. foreign policy.