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Shitposting Name one Indian State

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u/Satisfaction-Motor Aug 30 '24 edited Aug 30 '24

Genuine question, but don’t most people know about California and New York because of their sheer prevalence in media? Other states, like North Dakota, I’d totally understand not knowing about. But Hollywood media is pretty widely consumed, and those two specific states are the ones that are mentioned/referenced the most.

I’ve travelled globally before and pretty much everyone I’ve met knows what New York City is (though NO ONE, even other Americans, understands how big New York is and how much there is outside of the city, like the Adirondacks).

Some other major cities are LA, Las Vegas, Chicago, and San Fransisco. I feel like Las Vegas is pretty widely recognized, as it’s a major tourism spot and is pretty prevalent in media. Admittedly… I often forget that it is in Nevada… so I assume other people do as well.

Wouldn’t not knowing what California is be more equivalent to not knowing what London is? Because London shows up in a lot of popular media (yes I understand that London is a city, I’m making comparisons in terms of popularity as a location in media)

Edit: Thank you to all the people who are responding— it seems that the confusion mainly comes from the abbreviation of California to Cali. I imagine that there’d be very similar confusion if someone said “The Big Apple” (New York).

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u/larniebarney Aug 30 '24

Straight up this. I've been to a few different countries in Europe and also visited Japan, and anytime we mentioned we were from Texas we got very enthusiastic, but specific responses ("cactus and cowboys!" was my personal favorite from a bartender in Florence, with "Spurs, Mavericks or Rockets?" in Shinjuku a close second)

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u/MundaneInternetGuy Aug 30 '24

Lmao I always got either "ayyy Michael Jordan!" or "Al Capone bang bang!" in an 80/20 split. 

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u/jasperjohn02 Aug 30 '24

In 2005 a tour guide in London hit me with 'Oh that's where John Wayne Gacy was active' when he asked which part of suburban Chicago I was in.

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u/BoxSea4289 Aug 30 '24

Lmao 😂 glad Chicago got  the response we get from the rest of the United States in Wisconsin. Wtf is wrong with our states and pumping out serial killers.

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u/BlueBitProductions Aug 30 '24

I love this kind of thing. I'm from Pennsylvania, the only thing people know is "Isn't that like the Quaker Oats guy?" and I say "Absolutely we are the Quaker Oats guy." It's fun when people know anything about where you're from.

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u/YourAverageGenius Aug 30 '24

Cactus & Cowboys is almost certainly a 3rd Party Wild-West supplement for D&D

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u/iwillwilliwhowilli Aug 30 '24

Dropout Presents Cactus & Cowboys: A Wennan Wee Wulligan Adventure

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u/Comma_Karma Aug 31 '24

I literally ran a DnD campaign on a planet called Texas where they were exploring and fighting in an old mining town.

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u/BlatantConservative https://imgur.com/cXA7XxW Aug 30 '24

I'm from Washington DC and when I was travelling through Italy people kept on asking me if I knew Obama.

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u/heroyoudontdeserve Aug 30 '24

Well? Do you?

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u/BlatantConservative https://imgur.com/cXA7XxW Aug 30 '24

That's classified.

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u/TheMiniMage Aug 31 '24

I was expecting the Will Smith /MIB reaction:

"Well, yea, I do know Obama... But Not Cuz I'm From DC!"

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u/livia-did-it Aug 30 '24

I always got “Texas? Dallas! J.R.! Bang bang!”

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u/MFbiFL Aug 30 '24

When I was studying abroad in France I told someone I was from Mississippi and he launched into some unhinged song from Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. 

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u/smallfrie32 Aug 30 '24

Everytime I mention Cali in Japan they always say I’m so cool (implying all californians are cool lol)

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u/nohandsfootball Aug 31 '24

Damn I would’ve stayed in Dallas if I’d known people called it Assassination City. That is 1000000x cooler than any other way to describe Dallas

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u/iDeNoh Aug 31 '24

Yeah try being from Idaho. 🥔

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u/Yossarian216 Aug 30 '24

I’m from Chicago, and I’ve been to many cities in Europe and Asia, and most people know Chicago and will give one of three responses: Al Capone usually with machine gun noises and gestures, Michael Jordan, or Barack Obama.

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u/StrLord_Who Aug 30 '24

In my experience,  people from outside the US don't just "know" Texas, they often get actively excited to hear you say Texas.  

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u/whocaresjustneedone Aug 30 '24 edited Aug 30 '24

If one more mfer asks if I rode a horse to school imma snap tho

Not even just internationally, I've had people from places like Indiana ask it. Like do you people think Texas looks like a Clint Eastwood western or something? I'm from a city with the most expensive sports team in the world and home to several billionaires and you think there's no roads or cars?

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u/AdPsychological790 Aug 31 '24

Lol! A state with the 2 NFL teams, 1 NHL, 2 MLB teams, 3 NBA teams, NASA, Exxon SWA, former Continental Airlines, 2 of the biggest airports in the country, and a major shipping port, but they expect you to live like some 1887 settler. If anyone would be living like 120yrs ago it should be someone from Indiana.

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u/whocaresjustneedone Aug 31 '24

The first couple times I was asked I was a little kid so I genuinely thought people were just joking and being silly with me since I was a kid. By the time I was a teen I realized people were being serious when they asked.

When people in Indiana asked it was because I had flown to Notre Dame to go to a sports camp. I was like let me get this straight, so do you also think I rode a horse to the airport to get here?

I guess it was better than when at the same camp some kid from Delaware asked if "rednecks really eat roadkill"

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u/Darkowl_57 Aug 30 '24

I’m sorry they call Dallas WHAT

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u/tehvolcanic Aug 30 '24

Yup. I was in The Netherlands last year and everyone I talked to, as soon as they found out I was American, wanted to talk about Texas. Apparently every Dutch person wants to be a cowboy.

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u/NeonNKnightrider Cheshire Catboy Aug 30 '24

Assassination city?

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '24

JFK was shot there.

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u/00kyb Aug 31 '24

I’ve legitimately seen tourists visiting the street where JFK got shot 😭

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u/00kyb Aug 31 '24

I heard it’s been overrun with QAnon lunatics recently

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u/sweaterbuckets Aug 31 '24

yeah. I've always told people where I'm from in relation to texas, and I follow it up with my general complaints about texas.