Netizens Roasted National Geographic UK for Saying S’pore is Part of M’sia

When you see an image like this, you know it’s just another Sunday:

Reading the comments would brighten up your day, but it won’t create a hoo-ha since the original poster is just another dude on the Internet.

But when a media giant like National Geographic makes such a mistake?

You get roasted. Badly.

Netizens Roasted National Geographic UK for Saying S’pore is Part of M’sia

Yesterday, National Geographic UK posted this on their Facebook Page.

You won’t be able to find it if you head to their page, because when you click on “National Geographic UK”, you’d automatically be redirected to “National Geographic Asia”, which has different contents altogether.

This means we Singaporeans or Malaysians won’t see this, right?

Well, no—we can still view it if we have the exact URL.

After it was posted, the post went viral early this morning in Singapore and Malaysia, because we’re talking about National Geographic—notwithstanding its name, it’s also a trusted media outlet.

It’s almost akin to your history teacher telling you that Sir Stamford Raffles was the first President of Singapore.

(For your info, it’s not; it should be Lee Kuan Yew.)

(No?)

In the post, the Facebook Page wrote, “From the Archive: A family from India walks through the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, Malaysia,” with an image of Gardens by the Bay.

For the uninitiated, due to the large size of a country, the usual accepted style to list a region in a country is Region, Country.

For example, to list Johor, we would use Johor, Malaysia.

So for National Geographic to write “Singapore, Malaysia” clearly shows that it’s very wrong.

Unless the Facebook admin is a time traveller from 1964, that is.

What is even more shocking is that as of time of writing, in which 20 hours have passed and over 9,600 people have shared the post…it’s still not amended.

Granted that it’s almost 2 in the morning in the UK now, and that it’s a weekend…it doesn’t take much effort to make the change via a smartphone.

Unless this is done on purpose because we didn’t know anything about National Geographic before that lah I don’t know.

Netizens Have a Field Day

Suffice to say, netizens immediately sprang into action.

With these:

Tourism Malaysia appears to be so worried that people might head to Malaysia to look for Gardens by the Bay that they didn’t joke about it, and posted this:

It’s nice to see Singaporeans and Malaysians banding together and not quarrelling over whose nasi lemak is better.

Just so you know, some shows by National Geographic are available in Disney+.

Oh, wait, maybe…

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Featured Image: Facebook (National Geographic UK)