adding on to this, because these situations are both hilarious and sad:
my sibling’s friend spent 3 years in Germany, and one time she did a presentation about Hungary
so she comes in with a Hungarian flag, right?
but the Germans stare at her, like “uuuuhhhhhhh that’s the Italian flag”
she’s like “no it’s the Hungarian flag”
Germans: “no stop lying we’re not stupid that’s the Italian flag”
she, completely baffled: “do you honestly think that I don’t know how my own country’s flag looks like”
“yes”
I am in hungary but I work in an ITALIAN shop, where all we sell is products from italy, we also have flags out and such to prove more we are having only italian stuffs
yet tourists come in and ask for hungarian chocolates, hungarian vines (you know, some really well known ones), unicum, and such hungarian stuffs.
they can’t see the difference between the italian and hungarian flag, can’t they?