Our exchange student has been asked many stupid questions. So have we. Here are some of the best (beginning with my favorites):

Do you have the Internet in Mexico?

Do you have cell phones?
You use iphones!?

Do you have malls?

Do you have pizza in Mexico?
What is pizza like there? What!? It's the same!?

So, do you like salsa?

You speak Mexican, right?

Is calling you "Mexican" offensive?

Why is your skin so light if you're Mexican?

Are Mexico and Brazil the same thing?

Mexico isn't in North America.

Mexico has states?

Do drug cartels run everything?
Do you have family in the cartel?

Is food in Mexico spicy?

Do Mexicans really like tacos?

Can all Mexicans cook really well?

Some more me and my friend have heard :
Do you have cats in Germany ?
So you're French ? Do you speak French ?
Do you speak French in school ?
Do French people celebrate Christmas ?

"So on italy do you speak English with a different accent?"
"Oh wait I didn't know they speak English in England."

Do you have firework in Germany?
Do you celebrate Fourth of July?
Do you speak German?
Do you have cars?
Did you have English before you came here?
Do you like Hitler?

Do you speak African?
Do you speak Kenyan?
Do you know John, he's my friend from Africa too!
Do you guys live on trees?
So you know how to use a phone!
( friends ) seriously you don't have a tail?
How comes you are lighter?
Do you ride on elephants?
Do you keep lions as pets?

I, myself, have been an exchange student to the US and I have had some stupid questions asked to me about Lebanon my country
Some people asked me, "Do you live in the desert in tents and ride camels to school?"
"Do you have cellphones?"

I was an exchange student in the U.S. last year and I always got the same questions...
So, do you eat tacos everyday? (I'm from Chile, I hadn't even tried real tacos until I went to a Mexican restaurant there)
Do you have cars?
How's chili in Chile? (WE DON'T EAT CHILI)
How do you not play soccer?
So you're not Mexican, right?

And some comments like:
I bet it's chilly in Chile.

Im from Spain and these are some of the questions they have been asking me:
Do you have tractors in spain?
How do you know Spanish?
Do you speak Mexican?
Is spain in mexico?
I thought Brazil was in Europe
Do you have chickens in Spain?
Do you have malls?
Do you speak in english at home all the time?

Some that I got asked while I was living in Argentina were:

Do you live next to Justin Bieber?
and
Have you ever had coca-cola before? (They thought it was only in Argentina)

I am an exchange student from Switzerland in the US.

Most popular question: So Swiss, you're from Sweden, right?
I can understand if you get that wrong, however, one guy INSISTED on Switzerland being the same as Sweden. He argued: I must know, I've lived in Germany on an army base for a year!

Here are some other funny ones:

You're Swiss, that's awesome, I speak Swedish!
Do you have internet in Swizterland?
Do you have cars in Switzerland? (No, we ride our cows to school)
Do you have planes in Switzerland? (No, I swam across the atlantic ocean to get here)
Did you come here (Switzerland to USA) by train or by car?
Have you ever used a computer?
Do you have electricity in your house?
Do you know how to use money?

My friend is from South Africa, she also gets really funy questions:
Why are you white?
Are your parents black?
Where is the border between south and north africa?

Little conversation:
-werhe are you from?
-South Africa
-I'm sorry, I meant, what country are you from?
-I'm from South Africa
-No, I'm sorry, you don't understand me, I didn't ask what continent, I asked what country you were from
-You don't understand ME, South Africa is a country!
-No, it's not, it's a continent like South America
-Ugh!

Somehow a bit more bright people in New Zealand (at least the ones I met). but there were a few odd questrions..
- But all the languages in Europe are so similar that there really is no big difference, right? The languages are basically the same...
well, in that case she should have been able to understand all European languages, as English is one of them. And I do agree that there are some similarities between some of the languages, but that does not mean a Norwegian would understand Russian.

But mostly, nobody really knew about Norway. especially the Americans down under.

The oddest question I had was in my Spanish class in the us. I'm from France and a girl asked me if " France was in the USA ?" Ahahah
And of course the basics ones such as " do you shave ?" " do you have cars, toilets, phones ?" And the best one ask by adults to my host parents about me " is she clean ? "

You're from africa so why aren't you black?!
Do you listen to music in Tunisia?
Is the middle east in africa?
Is Tunisia a city in indonesia?
Do you eat? And drink?
You live with tigers right?! Do you eat them?!
Did you vote for obama in Tunisia?
Do you have laptops, phones, tablets?!

Is it true that you have a power cut in the U.K at 4 o'clock everyday because everyone is drinking tea? - that's my all time favourite!

My Swedish exchange student was asked if the girls in Sweden had periods (as in menstrual cycle) like the girls in America. Seriously?! I told her that she should have said I'm from another planet, so no we don't have periods. There are some really sheltered American kids!!

Someone I know from Norway (I'm from Denmark) got asked if they rode around on reindeer in Norway. Before she could answer, someone else said "don't be stupid, reindeers aren't real"
I got questions like if we had McDonald's and Burger Kind and if we translated Music Albums

I'm an exchange student from Czech Republic.
So, you are from Czech Republic right? So your native language is english?
"Wait, so how did you get there? You travel by plane?-no, I swam acros ocean. :)
"She is from Czechoslovakia" - It's just Czech Republic. "Ok, and her native language is czech, but in czech they speak english in schools and these stuff." ehm, no!
"Do you speak better czech or english?" Haha :D :D
"Do you have lights in Czech or do you use candles?" - of course. we use candles, we also ride horses :)
"Do you have black people in czech republic?"
"Do you have Starbucks"
:D

Last year our student was asked "Do you write with pencils in Italy?"
Her response was something similar to "No. We prick our fingers and write in blood."
He stared at her in amazement until the girls nearby burst out laughing.

I am also an exchange student and this the start of my exchange student. One of the student asked me that "do u have tooth fairy in Pakistan?". "do you go to school on camels?" and it was so fun to answer them. I am already loving them and looking forward to answer some more of them.

Have a wonderful year!