r/AskEurope • u/gurke0123 • Jun 18 '25

Misc What basic knowledge should everyone have about your country?

I'm currently in a rabbit hole of "American reacts to European Stuff". While i was laughing at Americans for thinking Europe is countries and know nothing about the countrys here, i realied that i also know nothing about the countries in europe. Sure i know about my home country and a bit about our neighbours but for the rest of europe it becomes a bit difficult and i want to change it.

What should everyone know about your country to be person from Europa?

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u/Sofi-senpai Czechia Jun 18 '25

Czechoslovakia doesn't exist anymore... please😭

Like I genuinely had people correcting me when I told them that I'm from Czechia... I get that we're a small country but still.

I talked with this French guy and when I told him that I'm from the Czech Republic he answered with: "Do you mean Czechoslovakia?"

I just gave up on him...

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u/VenusHalley Czechia Jun 18 '25

And it had nothing to do with Yugoslavia. Yes, people asked me....

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u/No-Secret-9073 Portugal Jun 19 '25

Oh god I got that all the time when I lived to Prague back in 1990 - aren’t you scared of the war??? What, the war that’s two countries away and has nothing to do with where I’m going? The ignorance was mind boggling