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Often a character who isn't characterized as being either [[The Smart Guy]] or [[The Ditz]] will make understandable but amusing slips along these lines to cement their position in the intellectual hierarchy particularly if they have been being a bit too smart recently. A good example would be thinking Thai people are from Taiwan which is wrong, but not completely stupid either.

 

 

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', when Makie reveals how much she's learned much about the history and geography of Mundas Magicus in a few weeks, Yuna is surprised, given that normally she can't find Germany, Italy or France on a map, and thinks that Switzerland is near England and that ''Australia'' is around Europe.

'''Joey:''' Um.... Pennsylvania Dutch come from Pennsylvania.

'''Chandler:''' But original Dutch people? Would you say they come from somewhere like the Netherlands?

*** For some reason, Chandler doesn't point out that Pennsylvania Dutch are actually German. <s> The word "deutsch" degraded into "dutch" because it's easier to say.</s> It took to the 19th century for it to be firmly established that in English, Dutch referred to people from one of the Low Countries, and not to the Deutsch.

** Joey also spent an episode trying to find somewhere he could change US dollars into "Vermont money".