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minus-squarenodiratime@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 个月前 find any locals who wanted to greet the Second Lady Did they lead with that? As in, asking as if she was greenlanders “second lady” and not only americans (the term didn’t exist before this distraction, afaik)?
minus-squareUrfgurgle@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 个月前What? The term “second lady” most certainly existed long before this.
minus-squarekent_eh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 个月前 The term “second lady” most certainly existed long before this. But only in the US as far as I know. Most other countries don’t have a title or official position for the spouses of the elected heads of state.
minus-squareUrfgurgle@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 个月前https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_lady https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_lady Many do, though the title is perhaps not used as often in most as it is in USA
minus-squarekent_eh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 个月前And in those few other examples, it’s not a position that has any particular importance to the state. Where the US first lady has often acted in a pseudu-ambasador role.
Did they lead with that? As in, asking as if she was greenlanders “second lady” and not only americans (the term didn’t exist before this distraction, afaik)?
What? The term “second lady” most certainly existed long before this.
But only in the US as far as I know.
Most other countries don’t have a title or official position for the spouses of the elected heads of state.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_lady https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_lady
Many do, though the title is perhaps not used as often in most as it is in USA
And in those few other examples, it’s not a position that has any particular importance to the state.
Where the US first lady has often acted in a pseudu-ambasador role.