Yanks... you gotta love em. Larry King, a current affairs presenter supposedly, asks Welsh singer Shaheen about his heritage. "I'm half Iranian and the rest of me is Welsh," explains the nervous child protege. "So, you were born in London?" enquires Larry ignorantly, having clearly never seen a map of the UK. Shaheen politely corrects him but gets a little tongue-tied, "no, I was born in Wales, a small country in London." Bless. Seems us Brits need to listen harder in our geography lessons too... Thanks to Shaheen's nervous blooper, several million Americans now think Wales is a country in London!
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Of course, Wales is the only nation in the UK American comedy writers don't have any handy national stereotype for. Futurama tried it once, in their Star Trek episode, but didn't really know what to do. Bless.
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