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== [[Advertising]] ==

* Verizon, as seen in [http://contexts.org/socimages/2010/04/17/spain-mexico-whatever/ this sociologist's blog post], has got a print ad out there with "Coverage in Spain" on it (just ignore the "and [[Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics|25 more countries]] than the UN recognizes" part) with the Verizon guy in front of a crowd of stereotypical Mexicans.

* Verizon, as seen in [https://web.archive.org/web/20100425005059/http://contexts.org/socimages/2010/04/17/spain-mexico-whatever/ this sociologist's blog post], has got a print ad out there with "Coverage in Spain" on it (just ignore the "and [[Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics|25 more countries]] than the UN recognizes" part) with the Verizon guy in front of a crowd of stereotypical Mexicans.

== [[Comics]] ==

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== [[Other Sites]] ==

* [http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38654 Classic example] from ''[[The Onion]]'' that perfectly illustrates this trope.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100219065641/http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38654 Classic example] from ''[[The Onion]]'' that perfectly illustrates this trope.

** What is more hilarious is that the restaurant had a clearly Spanish name. ''[[Don Quixote]]'' is a novel written in Spain by Miguel de Cervantes, a Spaniard writer, and set in La Mancha, Spain.

*** Which is precisely the point. The folks who'd make a mistake like the one in the article are unaware that there's any difference between Mexico and Spain, and would still demand to know where the hell their tacos are.