Ignorance

It puzzles me when Americans assume that Singapore is a city in China... even in this day and age. Just had someone wish me and my family well... hoping that we are not too severely affected by the snow storms that have hit China. I told him that we are too far away from China to be affected by the cold snap because we are too close to the equator.
I even met a Brit who thought that we were still a British colony until I made him aware of our independence since the 60s.