Originally Posted by
cardiomd
Thanks, responded in other thread too.
As to stupidity, it is not too cool to say that, but your point is taken... Very easy to pick on us -- everybody in Bhutan knows who the president of the USA is, but not the reverse... it is partly a national self-absorption but also just based on relative influence around the world. I'm sure you follow cricket, but I wouldn't call you stupid if you didn't know our (american) football teams etc., etc.
From cross-referencing news articles from respectable sources, it appears that only the picture is misleading and Chopra did accompany Obama. Can you confirm?
Well, I know the president of Bhutan and every single football team in the country (and I assure you that the Panthers SUCK) and I would be more quick to pin the ignorance (better wording than stupidity) on the broken education system in the US (when my cousins in India told me that it was "cool" to be smart in India, I almost wish I was educated there instead of the US).
Yes, Chopra did accompany Obama and they gave a press conference together on it. However, there weren't any pictures that I could find online of them together, searching both in Hindi (language of India) and English, so I'd assume that the picture is showing that the press conference happened during a diplomatic summit in India. It really did need a caption though