I tell ya, there's no one does condescension quite like the British. Driving back from the store this afternoon, I was listening to BBC World Service and they were doing a story on the Darfur protest rallies in DC this afternoon. The host intro'd the segment by pointing out that awareness of the situation seemed to be increasing in America. At which point he handed off to the correspondent in DC who began by observing that as he walked around the rally site, many people asked him where Darfur was and seemed to be confusing it with Rwanda, so there was still a lot of ignorance (perhaps not his exact words but pretty damn close). Yes, yes, he followed that point with a "but" and went on to actually do the story the host had set up, about increased awareness of the crisis in Darfur.
Hilarious!