The most international culture I've had in years

Today my family and I went to the Dayton International Festival, which is essentially a bunch of local ethnic clubs and student groups hosting booths touting their various countries' culture, especially food.  It was a lot of fun, and of course educational.  They even had a program for the kids: each child got a "passport" with pages of each of the countries represented, and on each page was a trivia question that the kids had to ask or answer themselves.

The best moment was when my son, a serious Sinophile even at the age of eight, went to the booth for China.  "Can you name a major landmark located in China?" the woman asked.

"The Yellow River," said my son with a straight face.

The woman was visibly startled and said, "yes, the Yellow River is a major landmark." One whose flooding ended a lot more dynasties than the mongols climbing over the Great Wall, I thought to myself.  Then the woman stamped my son's passport.  "Shien shien," said my son, as the lady's jaw hit the floor.

My daughter had a great time looking at the costumes, and dancing with the Irish dancing group.  I wish there was a group closeby, instead of the cheesy "practice for working a pole at the local gentlemans' club" dancing school here in my area.