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* Two countries, one whose name is part of the other's. Congo and The Democratic Republic Of The Congo (formerly Zaire). It's the latter that's always in the news, yet the former's name is used a vast majority of the time to refer to it. Worse, they're neighboring countries...
** The former's official name is ''Republic of the Congo'', and the demonym for both nationalities is the same: Congolese.
* Two countries with (confusingly) almost the same name: Dominica, and the Dominican Republic.
* US Representative Michele Bachmann (Tea Party - Minnesota District 6) proudly told people in New Hampshire that the Revolutionary War battles of Lexington and Concord happened right there. [[Internet Backlash]] naturally followed from irate Massachusetts (and other knowledgeable) citizens.
** She pulled off another one kicking off her presidential nominee campaign when she said that John Wayne, born in the city she was currently visiting, was an American hero. Marion Michael Morrison, later known as John Wayne, was born in another city 140 miles away. The John Wayne born where she was at the time was [[Serial Killer|John]] [[Monster Clown|Wayne]] [[Complete Monster|Gacy]].
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* Many people seem to forget that Canada is part of America. The (possibly ex-)top comment of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xeonqv_c4o0&feature=relmfu this] [[YouTube]] video, for example, is/was "what I've learned from JFL is that Canadians are much kinder than Americans".
** 'American' is normally used as a referent for 'resident of the United States of America', not 'resident of a country part of the North American continent'. The term used to refer to the entire group of continents is not "America" but "the Americas", to avert confusion with one peculiarly generically-named country (indeed there are lots of countries in the Americas which use or have used generic terms like "United" or "State" in their name, the United Mexican States being the most obvious example). By the original trope entry's reasoning, a citizen of Costa Rica would be an 'American'.
* There's also the common misconception that [[Canada|Canadians]] all reside north of the 49th parallel. That line actually refers to just one piece of the international boundary, extending west from Lake of the Woods to the BC Lower Mainland.
* One of the most notorious examples is the co-opting of the word ''Aryan'' by [[Those Wacky Nazis]]. Uh, Adolf, there's some [[Kipling's Finest|Rajputs, Punjabis, and Parsis]] that might wish to discuss the point.
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