What is the most obscure country from which you've met a person?
 

Don't count people you've met while traveling to obscure countries. What's the most unusual country from which you've met someone, while going about your normal business in the United States?

I was friends with a guy in college who was from The Gambia. Not just a Gambia, but THE Gambia. That's a small country.

The husband of a friend of mine is from Yemen, which is pretty unusual, and a client of mine once was from Bulgaria. I met someone once whose girlfriend was from the island of Truk, and I really wanted to meet her, but never got the chance.

I'd like to meet a Mongolian person at some point.

Colorado

FYP

Not sure, couldn't understand him.

I'm from Mongolia Rainman let's meet.

Did he make you a vegemite sandwich?

I rented out my house to a person I thought was a friend from The Gambia

Suffice to say you can take the man out of Africa but you can't take the Africa out of the man - He destroyed my place

Dead giveaway. No.

Côte d'Ivoire

Texas

East or west?

A great friend of mine at KU was from Ghana. His name is Siaw Yaboah. He went by the nick-name of Kojo, which means "Monday born," in Ghana.

They have several dialects in Ghana and English is/was taught to the privileged. When Kojo came to KU he had to relearn English because he couldn't understand a word we said (and vice versa). He caught on really fast and busted all players in chess. He's now a successful engineer in California. Rock on Kojo!

Laos. But it's not really obscure because there is a large Laos population here in Northern California.

At one of my jobs there was a guy from Ghana and a guy from Somalia. The guy from Somalia was probably the most bigoted person I've ever met toward the guy from Ghana. He would call him "ditch digger" and "monkey" right to his face.
And the guy from Ghana would just sort of smile about it and never got mad.

Actually quite a bit. I play soccer with quite a diverse and rotating crowd of foreigners.