I happened to be working in China during International Women’s Day a couple of years ago; I had never heard of International Women’s Day before that. At my workplace every woman was greeted at the door and given a long-stemmed rose, and treated to a half-day off, with pay. After I returned to the US, I found that it was not observed here. This year, however, there are some observances set up in my company.
Edited to add, we still have to make our own cake tho! LOL
I may be OTD, but when I was in grade school (I am in Minnesota), my teacher told us about an acquaintance of hers from ‘back East’ who wanted to come out and visit, but needed to know when the next Indian attack was expected - and this was circa 1958!
Edited to add– that may not have been geographical ignorance, but ignorance all the same!
eeww!