• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    People not from the US will prefer names, not some (for most of the world) meaningless abbreviations.

    • MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      In my experience, many people outside of the states can only really name a few specific states. Often it’s New York, California, Hawaii, Texas, Florida, and/or Alaska.

      I’d wager quite a bit of money that less than 50% of people outside of the US would be able to identify which name in the following list is not one of the 50 states: Navajo, Idaho, Utah, and Montana.

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        8 hours ago

        As American politics and decisions have a big influence on what is happening in the world, the chance that someone from outside the US knows something about the US are bigger, way bigger than the other way round. We speak your mother tongue, but you probably don’t speak any of ours…

        That said, it would be rather interesting to see Navajo as a state. It would probably located in the Utah/Arizona/New Mexico area. If it existed.