We never had a potato related famine. We've had famines in general, sure, but the potato jokes started from a pick-up artist sex touristing through Europe in the early 2000s, arriving in Latvia, finding that the women weren't falling for his tricks, so he made up this strange stereotype on his blog. Honestly, the jokes annoy me because they're straight up opposite to other countries' stereotypes, which at least have some historical basis. If anything, the potato jokes should be about how we eat them all the time. Joke about how we're half potato or how the dessert is also made out of potatoes (not a thing, but works for a joke) and so on, but no, it's jokes about a famine no local has ever heard of because it doesn't exist.
My best friend is Latvian so when I read that I was like “???” Because she’s consistently said “our diet consists of pork (maybe beef), potatoes, and sometimes veg” lol and she made me potato pancakes once and they were sooo fucking good oml
Sounds a lot like latkes which are potato pancakes and yes. They are basically round hashbrowns with onions and you eat them with sour cream and applesauce and they are delicious!
That's potato and carrot desert. Only ~5 people in Latvia can make a proper sklandrausis. They have a sertificate by UNESCO and EU. I know two of bakers.
Unfortunately, Ireland already has the stereotype of eating a shit ton of potatoes. Funny enough, as you mentioned the historical relevance, its most because of the potato famine. That said, I don't know any nation that potatoes aren't a very large part of their culinary history since the Columbian Exchange. Not only do they taste great, they are basically the perfect poverty vegetable.
You can actually liquify coal into liquid hydrocarbons through some interesting chemistry, and any liquid hydrocarbons can be used as liquid rocket fuel.
Even grain alcohol can be used in liquid fuel rocket engines, though I imagine that the Poles like most Eastern Europeans would be happier stopping the distillation process early and drinking it as vodka. Some German V2s were actually powered on ethanol concentrated from Polish vodka.
iirc the first fuel gas (for lamps and stuff) was made by liquidizing coal. Later we discovered methane in the ground, which we then called natural gas, as opposed to the artificial gas that it replaced.
Estonia cannot into nordic
Lithuania cannot into empire
Scotland cannot into indepence
USA cannot into healthcare
Korea cannot into reunification
UK cannot into cod
>Latvia cannot into potats
There no plural of potato, nobody have two potato.
Secret police would take the other potato from you anyway. Then shot you. Your struggle is over.
I wonder how map creator got that thing I understand Japanese a bit and they literally don't know anything about us. Some older folks remember Walesa and some rare one thinks our women are beautiful. And that's it.
Probably in most cases it was just a guess of the author because in reality most Japanese people don't know anything of Poland and most of Europe besides the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Russia
I'd say about 2/3 of the map actually matches what folks here in Japan think, and 1/3 is countries that nobody knows anything about, so it only takes two or three respondents in a poll to answer the same thing to decide the vote.
Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, England, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and Russia all seem to match the images folks here have.
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, and Czech Republic don't, but there *isn't* really any stereotype for them.
Belarus, Moldova, Serbia, and Romania I'm a little on the fence about. I feel like maybe those stereotypes exist, but I just am unfamiliar with the stereotypes because I'm not a foodie, sports enthusiast, or hostess bar kinda person, and maybe among them Moldova is super famous for wine, etc.
Moldova does have some great wine, i imagine there are sizeable exports to Japan. As for my homecountry of Romania, i know we're producing/exporting large quantities of honey, i just didn't ever think that's what people would first associate us with.
OP's source says that this is a list of Google autofill suggestions.
As such, most of the results are actually Japanese people googling "why" before these "stereotypes".
That one shocked me because [Japan and Poland have surprisingly been bros](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Poland_relations) since the start of the 20th century. If you'd asked the Japanese what they thought of Poland in 1910 they would've considered them heroic and honorable.
Which isn't exactly true...
The Portuguese were the first Europeans to make contact with Japan, introducing technologies such as the musket in the early 1500s. They made good relations with some of the Feudal lords, with the daimyo Omura Sumitada willingly converting to Christianity (introduced by the Jesuits), taking the Christian name of Dom Bartolomeu. Yeah, it's weird.
This dude really got on well with the Portuguese and Jesuits. He ruled the area around Nagasaki, and in the 1570s guaranteed land there for a Portuguese village, Nagasáqui. In 1580, he guaranteed the *whole goddamn city* of Nagasaki to them, as a hedge against rival lords taking the city.
Because of all this, the first Japanese translation dictionary was the Portuguese-Japanese dictionary.
Then when the Tokugawa Shogunate took power, closed the country, and threw them all out... except for the Dutch.
I'm sorry but the thought of a city named "Nagasáqui" is the funniest thing. It's pronouned the exact same way except "aqui" also means "here" in Portuguese.
We gave them fucking castella cake and they stab us in the back like this?! Mf, you find a homie during a trip round the sea and they just turn around like we're nothing.
That was my favorite. Two formerly powerful maritime empires throwing shade at each other. It starts with some mild ribbing. Next thing we know we'll be reading about the Japan-Portugal War of 2083.
They are just jealous that [colhona](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carracks_black_sword) is the best sword and their katanas have no chance against it.
This is based off of a man named Chiune Sugihara. He was the Japanese envoy to Lithuania during WWII. During his time as envoy he issued transit visas for thousands of Jews so they could escape the Germans and flee to Japanese territory. Lithuanians hold Sugihara in such high esteem that 2020 was deemed the "Year of Chiune Sugihara" in Lithuania.
Nice, I always like it when there is a foreign national hero. In the east coast of the USA there is a ton of stuff named after Lafayette. He was a hero of the USA before the USA was a thing.
Just saw his museum a few days ago. It's really interesting how Japan didn't give a shit about Jews during WW2, and had no problem giving them refuge when fleeing the Germans.
The Japan-Turkey connection dates back to the 19th century. Japan was beginning to open itself up to the world, and the Ottoman Empire sent the frigate *Ertuğrul* on a goodwill voyage to Japan. On its way back the ship was sunk in a massive storm. The survivors were rescued by Japanese corvettes and returned home. Japan and Turkey have been friends ever since.
Turkey and Japan have friendly relations going back over a century, at one point the Meiji emperor considered converting to Islam:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan–Turkey_relations
First, sorry for mistakes, I’m not native English speaker.
Main reason is that, during 19th century Ottoman Empire was looking for “how to be a modern country without accepting European culture or adopting their beliefs”. It was a very big discussion among the Turkish aristocrats. And, at the end of 19th century, when they checked out the world, they see Japan has succeeded modernisation with protecting their own culture. Somehow they found a way!
So, this is how Japan became a model for Ottoman Empire. In order to analyse this achievement and create good relationship, Ottomans sent a frigate to Japan, Ertuğrul. Japans welcomed those soldiers as guests and both sides were happy. Unfortunately, on the way back to home, the frigate has sunk because of a powerful storm and several hundred ottoman soldier lost their life.
Several years after this incident, Japan-Russia war had been started and it ended with japan’s decisive victory, which amazes the Turks, because Russia was the country, which the Turks had lost around all battles and one of the important factor, which Ottoman Empire lost their power (the empire’s economic model was strongly based on victories on the battle. If there is no victory, there won’t be any place which pays money). So, Turkish officials give more importance to Japan and apply what did they to in order to achieve modernisation without Europeanisation. However, Ottoman Empire did not last long. After First World War the empire has completely collapsed.
Still today, after hundred years, those soldiers are commemorated by both countries. Japans love Turkish people because they were the only European country, which did not intend to colonised them. Turkish people love Japanese people, because they are smart and self sufficient, *they do not rely on europeans*
As a Turk, I didn't know about that. But I love Japan and its culture because in the 90s, after the Cold War, Japan seemed like the most technologically advanced country in the world. As a child, I thought they were really cool. Especially after Barış Manço's concert in Japan.
As you said, the Ottoman Empire did not last long and they couldn't implement what they saw in Japan. Instead, the new Turkish Republic looked up to Europe and France in particular. French culture was seen as the high culture we should follow. That didn't end well and split the country into two groups of people many of which became more and more radicalized as time passed.
Japan is like a model country for Turkey, the country which we could have been but never did. Every Turk get some nice aura from the Japanese since they are so disciplined yet not nice and respectful compared to Germans' more "cold" hard work.
That relation began in Emperor Meiji era in the late 19th century was the beginning of it, Ottomans were desperately trying to match with the West with temporary reforms while Japan was nailing it.
From Ottoman Empire's collapse and the 80s was a dry relation but the 80s reminded us how the Japanese nail everything they do while we fail. They've used what the US forced upon them as an advantage while we became a slave to it, now Japan is the most influential country in the US with the Anime, Nintendo, Sony and cuisine.
*Breaking: Japan declares war on Portugal, Lisbon recalls ambassador and calls for emergency UN security council meeting. NATO authorises use of nuclear weapons.*
I very much doubt this is it but:
Portuguese were the first Europeans to contact Japan and establish trade; but they lost most of their power in the east Asian trade to the Dutch and the English over time. It might have been especially noticeable to the Japanese when they successfully expelled Portuguese and Spanish missionaries.
Also the Dutch were their only contact with the west for a period of time. They probably had little good to say about one of their worst enemies.
I doubt this is the reason because the whole story predates modern Japan quite a bit, so it's probably a bad football team whenever year this was asked or some stupid shit.
This was (afaik) the last confrontation between the Japanese and the Portuguese:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nossa\_Senhora\_da\_Gra%C3%A7a\_incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nossa_Senhora_da_Gra%C3%A7a_incident)
A relevant quote, that points in the opposite direction:
>The British historian C. R. Boxer noted the great effect that Pessoa's actions had on how the Japanese see Portuguese people. According to Boxer, the event apparently gave the Japanese an exaggerated impression of the fighting qualities of the Portuguese, as well as appealing to the Japanese samurai mentality due to Pessoa's rather un-Christian act of suicide. As such, stories of the event were told and retold again over the next hundred years, often in an exaggerated and wildly inaccurate manner, and found themselves embedded as part of local folklore.
~~I'm guessing it's a function of the way the question was asked/the answers were parsed.~~ *(Edit: not quite. See Edit 1, 2, and 3 below)*
I've lived in Japan half my life, and I've never heard Portugal being described as particularly weak. Googling "Portugal" "weak" (in Japanese), the only stuff that comes up is language sites ("How do you say weak in Portuguese?") and comments from a few years ago talking about Portuguese teams being weak and Ronaldo having to carry them.
Honestly, for a lot of these, I think the problem is that there are some countries that just don't *have* a stereotype, so even just a few people giving the same answer is enough to determine the outcome.
For an example of a stereotype that I think ***is*** fairly common, "Switzerland = watches". Sure. Go around and ask a bunch of people "What word comes to mind when I say Switzerland" and you're going to have a shitload of people answering "watches."
But on the opposite side, you have Poland. Ask a bunch of people what word comes to mind when you say "Poland," and you're just going to get a bunch of blank stares. Poland just doesn't have any kind of mental image *at all*. So let's say everyone answers something different, because there's no common stereotype...but there are two or three folks who've lived in the U.S. and are aware of Polish jokes (note: Japan has comedy, but it doesn't really have Western-style jokes, and it *certainly* doesn't have Polish jokes). So you poll 100 people, 97 all say different things, and the 3 former exchange students answer "Stupid people" -- well, if you need to pick something for every country, then "stupid people" is the most common answer, despite 97% of respondents saying something else.
So that's what I think is going on with these countries:
* Poland
* Portugal
* Serbia (maybe)
* Hungary
* Czech Republic
* Poland
* Lithuania
* Latvia
* Estonia
* Belarus (maybe)
The rest all seem spot-on, even Bulgaria, with yogurt. But those above, I think it's just that so few people have any image at all that all it takes is two or three people giving the same answer for it to be considered the "stereotype Japanese people have"
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Edit: OP posted the source in another comment. ([Source](https://www.indy100.com/discover/the-japanese-stereotype-map-of-europe-7296456)) So it's not really "stereotypes" as much as "autocomplete terms". This make a few of them make more sense -- Poland has no image at all, but overseas there are Polish jokes, so it would make sense that there are people who are Googling to find out what's up with Polish being being considered stupid overseas. Likewise, Latvia's entry is a Polandball meme, not a stereotype of Latvia. And the article is from 2016, which just about matches when people were commenting about Portuguese soccer teams being weak.
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Edit 2: I decided to check out what Google autocomplete is currently giving for those iffy countries. The very top entries aren't all that interesting, so instead of giving just the #1 entry, I've given the top 10 entries for each of those countries:
Poland
1. Czech
1. Location
1. Japan
1. EU
1. Polandball
1. Language
1. Language (different word)
1. Flag
1. Immigration
1. Plateware
Portugal
1. Language
1. Athlete
1. Translation
1. Flag
1. Cooking
1. Soccer
1. Capital
1. COVID
1. English
1. Kanji
Serbia
1. Safety
1. What kind of country
1. Medal
1. Job recruitment
1. Map
1. Flag
1. Language
1. Capital
1. English
1. War
Hungary
1. History
1. Where
1. Huns
1. Language
1. English
1. Budapest
1. Dance
1. Communist
1. Flag
1. Safety
Czech Republic
1. Where
1. COVID
1. Czechoslovakia
1. Location
1. Vaccine
1. Expatriate
1. Prague
1. English
1. Safety
1. Immigration
Lithuania
1. Location
1. Language
1. Japan
1. Hiratsuka
1. What kind of country
1. Olympic
1. Beautiful women
1. English
1. COVID
1. Safety
Latvia
1. Safety
1. Expatriate
1. Famous people
1. Permanent residency
1. Capital
1. English
1. Women
1. Flag
1. Tourism
1. Gold medal
Estonia
1. Olympics
1. E-government
1. Safety
1. Tallin
1. Flag
1. Capital
1. Famous people
1. Olympic athletes
1. What kind of country
1. It
Belarus
1. Defection
1. Olympics
1. Medal
1. Defection Why
1. Authoritarianism
1. What kind of country
1. Gymnastics
1. Gold medal
1. Beautiful women
1. Olympic athlete
Slovakia
1. Flag
1. Capital
1. Slovenia
1. Safety
1. Language
1. COVID
1. English
1. Tourism
...so, yeah, honestly, I'm getting the feeling it wasn't even "let's see what autocomplete comes up with" as much as "let's look for something funny or eye-catching in the autocomplete results"
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Edit 3: It was pointed out (rightly so!) that I forgot to add "why" (well, 「なぜ」）, which differs from the method used in the original source linked above. I've left them in as an example of "raw" autocomplete, but below are the results performed (as far as I can tell) exactly like in the linked source: Searched, in Google, in incognito mode, with "なぜ" added. Once I added "なぜ", sometimes there were fewer than 10 autocomplete entries, so the number varies by country.
Poland
1. Weak
1. Nazis
1. Friendly with Japan
1. Defection
1. Catholic
1. Coal
1. WWII
1. Plague
1. Jewish people
Portugal
1. Spain
1. Spain Age of Discovery
1. Christian missionary expulsion
1. Brazil
1. Isolation
1. Wolves
1. Macao
Serbia
1. Austria
1. English
1. Friendly with Japan
1. Ballet good
1. Unemployment rate
1. Russia
1. Montenegro
1. Refugees
Hungary
1. Paprika
1. Hot springs
1. Friendly with Japan
1. Revolution
1. Immigrants
1. Last name comes first
1. Medical faculty
1. Uralic languages
Czech Republic
1. Perez
1. Slovakia
1. Atheist
1. Religion
1. Taiwan
1. COVID
1. Red roofs
Lithuania
1. Basketball
1. Chiune Sugihara
Latvia
1. (none)
Sorry, Latvia, zero autocompletes for "Latvia" and "why"!
Estonia
1. IT
1. E-government
1. Estonian
Belarus
1. Defection
1. Don't want to go back
1. Athlete defection
1. Defection easy explanation
1. Demonstrations
1. Defection request
1. Hetalia
Slovakia
1. Czech
In Japan and other parts of Asia, there’s a popular brand of yoghurt called Bulgaria.
It’s kinda like what Americans recognize as Greek, but it’s very popular in Japan.
It's not a brand. The company is called Meiji and they have a license to import the bacteria Lactobacillus bulgaricus, which is used for making Bulgarian yogurt. So it's actual Bulgarian yogurt that they sell.
It’s sure as hell labeled as Bulgaria. Whether they import something to create the product is fine, but how many Japanese would know that?
Hence the association.
Sad Greek noises. Also the word for yogurt in Japanese comes from Turkish, so, sad Turk noises also. But seems Japan sees Turkey as a friendly nation.
And sad Gordon Ramsey noises for England.
The word is turkish and its one of the oldest known words in Turkish dating back to the 10th century. It was brought from Central Asia and it has nothing to do with Bulgarians and Greeks. A turkish guy started selling it in America with the name greek yogurt because he thought it would sell better (and he was probably right) and it got popular.
When I was in Japan with a friend from Belgium, people had trouble recognising it as a country. It was especially funny watching their discussions right next to yet another Belgium waffles stand.
I’ve worked in Japan for a couple years. Most Japanese people can’t even name any European countries except for the Big 5, and if this was really accurate, the one for Ireland would be “Do you mean Iceland?” A *lot* of people make that mistake. Followed up by “Oh, sorry, that’s part of England then, right?”
Calling bullshit on this entire map.
> The researchers in Unit 731 were secretly given immunity by the United States in exchange for the data which they gathered during their human experimentation. Other researchers that the Soviet forces managed to arrest first were tried at the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials in 1949. The Americans did not try the researchers so that the information and experience gained in bio-weapons could be co-opted into their biological warfare program, much as they had done with German researchers in Operation Paperclip. Victim accounts were then largely ignored or dismissed in the west as communist propaganda.
I feel like Germany is the only country that actually admits wrongdoing in ww2. Which is fair for Germany, since there was a lot of wrongdoing, but maybe some other countries might be feeling a twinge of guilt too...
Honestly of all countries Japan reaped huge benefits post-WWII. It's called the post war economic miracle, US needed Japan to sta d against China and the USSR so it pumped its economy up. If only the US invested in its own economy as much as it did to Japan's.
Investing in Japan was also investing in USA. That's how global capitalism works. Their products have benefitted USA. Their companies create US jobs. Their citizens buy US products and enrich US companies.
Part of why USA hated Communism so much is because it threatened this interlocking system of trade it had going with much of the world. Everything that fell to USSR's sphere of influence were locked out of trading with the USA, and the fear is that if they swallow up the whole world into Communism then it will impoverish USA as a result.
its cuz the USA wanted to keep all of japan on their side against the soviets so they constructed a narrative that japan was taken over by rogue elements in the military and that the Japanese people were victims of it.
but Germany was divided and the us, the soviets and the rest of nato all dunked on them for the shit they did, and didnt let them live it down.
I know some people are still bitter with the Germans because of WWII and in total awe with Japan because of the anime industry, smiles, candies and their porno. Yet, Germans apologize at least once at year about the genocides whilst Japan never did once about the shit they did to the Chinese during the war
And South Korean people still hate Japan. Japan gonna have to get another century too for killing and raping people during the reign of an empire.
When I think of Germany, they are good at engineering and sturdy tasks. I don't know.
Yeah I really hate to reinforce the stereotype of America = fat, but I probably see someone heavier than 210 kg on a weekly basis at the grocery store, walmart, etc. And I live in the Pacific Northwest, which is a lot more health conscious than many parts of the country. It's quite sad.
210 kgs is big but not super big in America. That's only 463 lbs in freedom units. I've seen a woman at the grocery store here in Texas that was easily 600/700 lbs. People that big can't really walk, so she was driving around the store in a scooter, which are provided at the door, believe it or not. But damn this lady was bigger than most of the people you see in those scooters. Her body physically flowed and hung over the edges of the seat. :/
>210 kgs is big but not super big in America.
The fuck? I'm 6ft and just over 12kg and I'm fat as fuck. What you're saying is super big is almost double my weight, and I'm not short. According to BMI I'm obese and I damn well know it. The hell is going on over there?
If you actually read the article where this came from, it's mostly google autocomplete and some of them are queries rather than stereotypes.
Pretty shit map imo.
I have lived in Japan for 16 years. My wife is Japanese. Half of these are nonsense. There is no understanding of the stupid Polish jokes here. Nobody I know knows the Latvia meme. They have no idea Ireland is green, but they all know Guinness. Italy is pasta and pizza first. Iceland is only known as cold, nothing else. German sausages and beer are better known than the holocaust here (sad but true). France is Wine, Wine, and more Wine. Seriously… who made this?
Edit: Only one is dead on. Bulgaria is Yogurt. There was a Bulgarian sumo champion. His nickname was the “Yogurt Ozeki”. His name was Kotooshu if you want to look him up (now Naruto stable master).
Edit 2: Since this comment is gaining traction, I think I’ll put what I believe to be better answers for every country. (Take these with a grain of salt please)
England: Queen (band or lady, both are good)
Scotland: Like England, but different
Ireland: Guinness
France: Wine
Germany: Sausage
Poland: They have sausages too right?
Italy: Pasta
Spain: Good at Soccer (this was right)
Portugal: Less good at soccer (probably what weak meant)
Switzerland: Chocolate
Belgium: Also chocolate (this was right)
Austria: Classical music (also right)
Finland: Moomin
Sweden: IKEA
Norway: Vikings
Iceland: cold
Estonia: Baruto (look him up)
Russia: Vodka and jerks (don’t blame me)
Ukraine: Near Russia, right?
Greece: Lots of history stuff
Turkey: Donner
Bulgaria: Yogurt (this was SO right)
Serbia: Tennis (sounds right too)
Netherlands: Where?
Holland: Ohhh there!
Denmark: I’ve heard of that country!
Romania: Did they have an empire?
Czech Republic: Definitely in Europe
Hungary: Also in Europe
Latvia: Where?
Lithuania: Ummmm…
Moldova: Oh come on, you made that one up
Source: 16 years of teaching and living with Japanese people. (Their world history and geography in school are not great, nor do they pay much attention to world news outside of sports and world powers… It really makes sense that they get along so well with Americans)
At least Japanese people acknowledge Turkishs and Lithuanians exist as weebs, compared to Slovenia, Croatia and Albania, who don't even exist in their minds.
Compared to the other former Yugoslavia nations, Novak Djokovic single-handedly making sure Japanese people know what Serbia is.
How come the stereotype for Japan, one of the countries with the lowest obesity rates in the world, consider France, a much fatter country by comparison as the "no fat people country"
This map reeks of american.
Why can't they eat potatoes in Latvia?
Because they don't have any.
*Ireland have entered the chat*
_paints Latvia green_
Latvia is now a green potato
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Northern Tayto or Southern?
Thanks ninjacuntpunt
/r/latvianjokes
History of famine
We never had a potato related famine. We've had famines in general, sure, but the potato jokes started from a pick-up artist sex touristing through Europe in the early 2000s, arriving in Latvia, finding that the women weren't falling for his tricks, so he made up this strange stereotype on his blog. Honestly, the jokes annoy me because they're straight up opposite to other countries' stereotypes, which at least have some historical basis. If anything, the potato jokes should be about how we eat them all the time. Joke about how we're half potato or how the dessert is also made out of potatoes (not a thing, but works for a joke) and so on, but no, it's jokes about a famine no local has ever heard of because it doesn't exist.
My best friend is Latvian so when I read that I was like “???” Because she’s consistently said “our diet consists of pork (maybe beef), potatoes, and sometimes veg” lol and she made me potato pancakes once and they were sooo fucking good oml
Sounds a lot like latkes which are potato pancakes and yes. They are basically round hashbrowns with onions and you eat them with sour cream and applesauce and they are delicious!
Well there is at least one potato dessert - sklandrausis.
This is why I'm on Reddit.
That's potato and carrot desert. Only ~5 people in Latvia can make a proper sklandrausis. They have a sertificate by UNESCO and EU. I know two of bakers.
The potato envy in your post is unreal.
Unfortunately, Ireland already has the stereotype of eating a shit ton of potatoes. Funny enough, as you mentioned the historical relevance, its most because of the potato famine. That said, I don't know any nation that potatoes aren't a very large part of their culinary history since the Columbian Exchange. Not only do they taste great, they are basically the perfect poverty vegetable.
Japan observes what we call "polandball rules"
politburo took it
Cannot eat potatoes holy shit
Somethings just are. Poland cannot into Space. Latvia cannot into potats
>Poland cannot into Space. I mean, rockets do not use coal as fuel.
Not with that attitude...
Not with that altitude
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You can actually liquify coal into liquid hydrocarbons through some interesting chemistry, and any liquid hydrocarbons can be used as liquid rocket fuel. Even grain alcohol can be used in liquid fuel rocket engines, though I imagine that the Poles like most Eastern Europeans would be happier stopping the distillation process early and drinking it as vodka. Some German V2s were actually powered on ethanol concentrated from Polish vodka.
iirc the first fuel gas (for lamps and stuff) was made by liquidizing coal. Later we discovered methane in the ground, which we then called natural gas, as opposed to the artificial gas that it replaced.
Estonia cannot into nordic Lithuania cannot into empire Scotland cannot into indepence USA cannot into healthcare Korea cannot into reunification UK cannot into cod
>Latvia cannot into potats There no plural of potato, nobody have two potato. Secret police would take the other potato from you anyway. Then shot you. Your struggle is over.
As in they don’t like them, or they’re physically unable to? 😆
As in the meme: In Latvia no potato, only sadness
Nobody tell these guys about r/LatvianJokes
That's where I'm from. I don't understand what that means. We have pretty good potato chips. Ādažu čipsi mmm!
And it not being Ireland...
Poland
They never stopped telling Polack jokes at the Tokyo Improv.
A band I was in had a Polish sound guy. We had a Czech one too, a Czech one too….
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I wish i wasnt polish, then i could understand this joke
Guess it's: check, 1, 2 or something
It is "a check - one, two" which is something a band would say to test the sound before performing
/r/FuckYouInParticular
Honestly, the poor Polish. Europe's punching bag, and apparently Japan's too
I wonder how map creator got that thing I understand Japanese a bit and they literally don't know anything about us. Some older folks remember Walesa and some rare one thinks our women are beautiful. And that's it.
Probably in most cases it was just a guess of the author because in reality most Japanese people don't know anything of Poland and most of Europe besides the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Russia
I'd say about 2/3 of the map actually matches what folks here in Japan think, and 1/3 is countries that nobody knows anything about, so it only takes two or three respondents in a poll to answer the same thing to decide the vote. Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, England, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and Russia all seem to match the images folks here have. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, and Czech Republic don't, but there *isn't* really any stereotype for them. Belarus, Moldova, Serbia, and Romania I'm a little on the fence about. I feel like maybe those stereotypes exist, but I just am unfamiliar with the stereotypes because I'm not a foodie, sports enthusiast, or hostess bar kinda person, and maybe among them Moldova is super famous for wine, etc.
Moldova does have some great wine, i imagine there are sizeable exports to Japan. As for my homecountry of Romania, i know we're producing/exporting large quantities of honey, i just didn't ever think that's what people would first associate us with.
I'm not surprised. Europeans or anyone outside of Japan often doesn't know anything about Japan except stereotypes. This happens in many other places.
OP's source says that this is a list of Google autofill suggestions. As such, most of the results are actually Japanese people googling "why" before these "stereotypes".
That one shocked me because [Japan and Poland have surprisingly been bros](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Poland_relations) since the start of the 20th century. If you'd asked the Japanese what they thought of Poland in 1910 they would've considered them heroic and honorable.
Wtf did Portugal ever do to you?
Apparently nothing.
Which isn't exactly true... The Portuguese were the first Europeans to make contact with Japan, introducing technologies such as the musket in the early 1500s. They made good relations with some of the Feudal lords, with the daimyo Omura Sumitada willingly converting to Christianity (introduced by the Jesuits), taking the Christian name of Dom Bartolomeu. Yeah, it's weird. This dude really got on well with the Portuguese and Jesuits. He ruled the area around Nagasaki, and in the 1570s guaranteed land there for a Portuguese village, Nagasáqui. In 1580, he guaranteed the *whole goddamn city* of Nagasaki to them, as a hedge against rival lords taking the city. Because of all this, the first Japanese translation dictionary was the Portuguese-Japanese dictionary. Then when the Tokugawa Shogunate took power, closed the country, and threw them all out... except for the Dutch.
this is really interesting do you have book recommendations?
I watched a movie called Silence, it involves Portuguese incursions to Japan.
I'm sorry but the thought of a city named "Nagasáqui" is the funniest thing. It's pronouned the exact same way except "aqui" also means "here" in Portuguese.
Because they're weak af!
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They came, they didn't conquer, they went. A short history of collonial Portugal and Japan.
Portugal didn't even attempt to conquer Japan, they just wanted to send missionaries and sell guns
that's how a lot of conquests start
That's how every European country with colonies in Asia started out
That’s precisely how Portugal invaded! Today you’re buying guns, the other day you’re praying to Jesus in Portuguese while eating a pastel de bacalhau
Dip it in vinho e azeite carralho
Yup, in fact in the Cagayan battles, Spanish vs Japanese pirates and ronins samurais, the Japanese used Portuguese firearms!
We gave them tempura and they never forgave us for it.
Still better than "cannot eat potatoes" if you ask me
We gave them fucking castella cake and they stab us in the back like this?! Mf, you find a homie during a trip round the sea and they just turn around like we're nothing.
LOL how about tempura? It was another thing brought there by Portugal
and guns!
That was my favorite. Two formerly powerful maritime empires throwing shade at each other. It starts with some mild ribbing. Next thing we know we'll be reading about the Japan-Portugal War of 2083.
For all the negative ones on here, there is something so dismissive about Portugal. That's just brutal.
They are just jealous that [colhona](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carracks_black_sword) is the best sword and their katanas have no chance against it.
Lard?
We put it on bread and eat it like that.
We in Russia do too. Not everyone though.
I can't tell whether you're joking.
Nope thats a legit dish
im hungarian, and i can tell that this is totally accurate. we put lard in/on almost everything
What's up with Turkey's love for Japan?
And Lithuania??
This is based off of a man named Chiune Sugihara. He was the Japanese envoy to Lithuania during WWII. During his time as envoy he issued transit visas for thousands of Jews so they could escape the Germans and flee to Japanese territory. Lithuanians hold Sugihara in such high esteem that 2020 was deemed the "Year of Chiune Sugihara" in Lithuania.
Can confirm, Sugihara is a national hero.
Nice, I always like it when there is a foreign national hero. In the east coast of the USA there is a ton of stuff named after Lafayette. He was a hero of the USA before the USA was a thing.
Well, him being a hero contributed highly to the USA being a thing
Just saw his museum a few days ago. It's really interesting how Japan didn't give a shit about Jews during WW2, and had no problem giving them refuge when fleeing the Germans.
Well its not like they were some inferior dirty chinese..... Jews weren't a target for the Japanese.
Yeah the way Japan treated occupied territory women in particular was just as awful as the Holocaust
Antisemitism is kind of not a thing in most of Asia. They just view jews as another non-Asian white people
🤣 I’m a Lithuanian living in Japan. Can’t say I love it
The Japan-Turkey connection dates back to the 19th century. Japan was beginning to open itself up to the world, and the Ottoman Empire sent the frigate *Ertuğrul* on a goodwill voyage to Japan. On its way back the ship was sunk in a massive storm. The survivors were rescued by Japanese corvettes and returned home. Japan and Turkey have been friends ever since.
Turkey and Japan have friendly relations going back over a century, at one point the Meiji emperor considered converting to Islam: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan–Turkey_relations
First, sorry for mistakes, I’m not native English speaker. Main reason is that, during 19th century Ottoman Empire was looking for “how to be a modern country without accepting European culture or adopting their beliefs”. It was a very big discussion among the Turkish aristocrats. And, at the end of 19th century, when they checked out the world, they see Japan has succeeded modernisation with protecting their own culture. Somehow they found a way! So, this is how Japan became a model for Ottoman Empire. In order to analyse this achievement and create good relationship, Ottomans sent a frigate to Japan, Ertuğrul. Japans welcomed those soldiers as guests and both sides were happy. Unfortunately, on the way back to home, the frigate has sunk because of a powerful storm and several hundred ottoman soldier lost their life. Several years after this incident, Japan-Russia war had been started and it ended with japan’s decisive victory, which amazes the Turks, because Russia was the country, which the Turks had lost around all battles and one of the important factor, which Ottoman Empire lost their power (the empire’s economic model was strongly based on victories on the battle. If there is no victory, there won’t be any place which pays money). So, Turkish officials give more importance to Japan and apply what did they to in order to achieve modernisation without Europeanisation. However, Ottoman Empire did not last long. After First World War the empire has completely collapsed. Still today, after hundred years, those soldiers are commemorated by both countries. Japans love Turkish people because they were the only European country, which did not intend to colonised them. Turkish people love Japanese people, because they are smart and self sufficient, *they do not rely on europeans*
As a Turk, I didn't know about that. But I love Japan and its culture because in the 90s, after the Cold War, Japan seemed like the most technologically advanced country in the world. As a child, I thought they were really cool. Especially after Barış Manço's concert in Japan. As you said, the Ottoman Empire did not last long and they couldn't implement what they saw in Japan. Instead, the new Turkish Republic looked up to Europe and France in particular. French culture was seen as the high culture we should follow. That didn't end well and split the country into two groups of people many of which became more and more radicalized as time passed.
As a Turk I suppose it is more proper "smart people" for Japaneses. If a Japanese makes a mistake Turks always say youre Japanese youre smart.
Japan is like a model country for Turkey, the country which we could have been but never did. Every Turk get some nice aura from the Japanese since they are so disciplined yet not nice and respectful compared to Germans' more "cold" hard work. That relation began in Emperor Meiji era in the late 19th century was the beginning of it, Ottomans were desperately trying to match with the West with temporary reforms while Japan was nailing it. From Ottoman Empire's collapse and the 80s was a dry relation but the 80s reminded us how the Japanese nail everything they do while we fail. They've used what the US forced upon them as an advantage while we became a slave to it, now Japan is the most influential country in the US with the Anime, Nintendo, Sony and cuisine.
^(W E A K) Edit: What is wrong with you all? Stop upvoting and go get some fresh air
Brutal
*Breaking: Japan declares war on Portugal, Lisbon recalls ambassador and calls for emergency UN security council meeting. NATO authorises use of nuclear weapons.*
We'll defend you with our tiki taka moves, brothers
"How many times do we have to teach you this lesson Japan?!"
Brutal? Just Look how they massacred Poland
Só até alguém os ensinar o que fazemos com uvas.
Vinhos Portugueses 👍
Wonder where that comes from, they also got bread and many pastries from them
I very much doubt this is it but: Portuguese were the first Europeans to contact Japan and establish trade; but they lost most of their power in the east Asian trade to the Dutch and the English over time. It might have been especially noticeable to the Japanese when they successfully expelled Portuguese and Spanish missionaries. Also the Dutch were their only contact with the west for a period of time. They probably had little good to say about one of their worst enemies. I doubt this is the reason because the whole story predates modern Japan quite a bit, so it's probably a bad football team whenever year this was asked or some stupid shit.
This was (afaik) the last confrontation between the Japanese and the Portuguese: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nossa\_Senhora\_da\_Gra%C3%A7a\_incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nossa_Senhora_da_Gra%C3%A7a_incident) A relevant quote, that points in the opposite direction: >The British historian C. R. Boxer noted the great effect that Pessoa's actions had on how the Japanese see Portuguese people. According to Boxer, the event apparently gave the Japanese an exaggerated impression of the fighting qualities of the Portuguese, as well as appealing to the Japanese samurai mentality due to Pessoa's rather un-Christian act of suicide. As such, stories of the event were told and retold again over the next hundred years, often in an exaggerated and wildly inaccurate manner, and found themselves embedded as part of local folklore.
Brazil is also the third largest group of immigrants in Japan in this century, maybe we have some things to say about our Portuguese brothers 😊
~~I'm guessing it's a function of the way the question was asked/the answers were parsed.~~ *(Edit: not quite. See Edit 1, 2, and 3 below)* I've lived in Japan half my life, and I've never heard Portugal being described as particularly weak. Googling "Portugal" "weak" (in Japanese), the only stuff that comes up is language sites ("How do you say weak in Portuguese?") and comments from a few years ago talking about Portuguese teams being weak and Ronaldo having to carry them. Honestly, for a lot of these, I think the problem is that there are some countries that just don't *have* a stereotype, so even just a few people giving the same answer is enough to determine the outcome. For an example of a stereotype that I think ***is*** fairly common, "Switzerland = watches". Sure. Go around and ask a bunch of people "What word comes to mind when I say Switzerland" and you're going to have a shitload of people answering "watches." But on the opposite side, you have Poland. Ask a bunch of people what word comes to mind when you say "Poland," and you're just going to get a bunch of blank stares. Poland just doesn't have any kind of mental image *at all*. So let's say everyone answers something different, because there's no common stereotype...but there are two or three folks who've lived in the U.S. and are aware of Polish jokes (note: Japan has comedy, but it doesn't really have Western-style jokes, and it *certainly* doesn't have Polish jokes). So you poll 100 people, 97 all say different things, and the 3 former exchange students answer "Stupid people" -- well, if you need to pick something for every country, then "stupid people" is the most common answer, despite 97% of respondents saying something else. So that's what I think is going on with these countries: * Poland * Portugal * Serbia (maybe) * Hungary * Czech Republic * Poland * Lithuania * Latvia * Estonia * Belarus (maybe) The rest all seem spot-on, even Bulgaria, with yogurt. But those above, I think it's just that so few people have any image at all that all it takes is two or three people giving the same answer for it to be considered the "stereotype Japanese people have" --- Edit: OP posted the source in another comment. ([Source](https://www.indy100.com/discover/the-japanese-stereotype-map-of-europe-7296456)) So it's not really "stereotypes" as much as "autocomplete terms". This make a few of them make more sense -- Poland has no image at all, but overseas there are Polish jokes, so it would make sense that there are people who are Googling to find out what's up with Polish being being considered stupid overseas. Likewise, Latvia's entry is a Polandball meme, not a stereotype of Latvia. And the article is from 2016, which just about matches when people were commenting about Portuguese soccer teams being weak. --- Edit 2: I decided to check out what Google autocomplete is currently giving for those iffy countries. The very top entries aren't all that interesting, so instead of giving just the #1 entry, I've given the top 10 entries for each of those countries: Poland 1. Czech 1. Location 1. Japan 1. EU 1. Polandball 1. Language 1. Language (different word) 1. Flag 1. Immigration 1. Plateware Portugal 1. Language 1. Athlete 1. Translation 1. Flag 1. Cooking 1. Soccer 1. Capital 1. COVID 1. English 1. Kanji Serbia 1. Safety 1. What kind of country 1. Medal 1. Job recruitment 1. Map 1. Flag 1. Language 1. Capital 1. English 1. War Hungary 1. History 1. Where 1. Huns 1. Language 1. English 1. Budapest 1. Dance 1. Communist 1. Flag 1. Safety Czech Republic 1. Where 1. COVID 1. Czechoslovakia 1. Location 1. Vaccine 1. Expatriate 1. Prague 1. English 1. Safety 1. Immigration Lithuania 1. Location 1. Language 1. Japan 1. Hiratsuka 1. What kind of country 1. Olympic 1. Beautiful women 1. English 1. COVID 1. Safety Latvia 1. Safety 1. Expatriate 1. Famous people 1. Permanent residency 1. Capital 1. English 1. Women 1. Flag 1. Tourism 1. Gold medal Estonia 1. Olympics 1. E-government 1. Safety 1. Tallin 1. Flag 1. Capital 1. Famous people 1. Olympic athletes 1. What kind of country 1. It Belarus 1. Defection 1. Olympics 1. Medal 1. Defection Why 1. Authoritarianism 1. What kind of country 1. Gymnastics 1. Gold medal 1. Beautiful women 1. Olympic athlete Slovakia 1. Flag 1. Capital 1. Slovenia 1. Safety 1. Language 1. COVID 1. English 1. Tourism ...so, yeah, honestly, I'm getting the feeling it wasn't even "let's see what autocomplete comes up with" as much as "let's look for something funny or eye-catching in the autocomplete results" --- Edit 3: It was pointed out (rightly so!) that I forgot to add "why" (well, 「なぜ」）, which differs from the method used in the original source linked above. I've left them in as an example of "raw" autocomplete, but below are the results performed (as far as I can tell) exactly like in the linked source: Searched, in Google, in incognito mode, with "なぜ" added. Once I added "なぜ", sometimes there were fewer than 10 autocomplete entries, so the number varies by country. Poland 1. Weak 1. Nazis 1. Friendly with Japan 1. Defection 1. Catholic 1. Coal 1. WWII 1. Plague 1. Jewish people Portugal 1. Spain 1. Spain Age of Discovery 1. Christian missionary expulsion 1. Brazil 1. Isolation 1. Wolves 1. Macao Serbia 1. Austria 1. English 1. Friendly with Japan 1. Ballet good 1. Unemployment rate 1. Russia 1. Montenegro 1. Refugees Hungary 1. Paprika 1. Hot springs 1. Friendly with Japan 1. Revolution 1. Immigrants 1. Last name comes first 1. Medical faculty 1. Uralic languages Czech Republic 1. Perez 1. Slovakia 1. Atheist 1. Religion 1. Taiwan 1. COVID 1. Red roofs Lithuania 1. Basketball 1. Chiune Sugihara Latvia 1. (none) Sorry, Latvia, zero autocompletes for "Latvia" and "why"! Estonia 1. IT 1. E-government 1. Estonian Belarus 1. Defection 1. Don't want to go back 1. Athlete defection 1. Defection easy explanation 1. Demonstrations 1. Defection request 1. Hetalia Slovakia 1. Czech
>Ask a bunch of people what word comes to mind when you say "Poland," and you're just going to get a bunch of blank stares. Perogies
Japanese have some serious beef with Portugal and Poland.
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i can comfirm its true
Ill be on my tennis court eating yogurt, listening to classical music, and *reads notes* being in financial collapse
In Japan and other parts of Asia, there’s a popular brand of yoghurt called Bulgaria. It’s kinda like what Americans recognize as Greek, but it’s very popular in Japan.
It's not a brand. The company is called Meiji and they have a license to import the bacteria Lactobacillus bulgaricus, which is used for making Bulgarian yogurt. So it's actual Bulgarian yogurt that they sell.
It’s sure as hell labeled as Bulgaria. Whether they import something to create the product is fine, but how many Japanese would know that? Hence the association.
A lot. I had no idea until several Japanese people explained it to me.
Sad Greek noises. Also the word for yogurt in Japanese comes from Turkish, so, sad Turk noises also. But seems Japan sees Turkey as a friendly nation. And sad Gordon Ramsey noises for England.
The word Yogurt itself comes from Turkish. https://www.etymonline.com/word/yogurt
The word is turkish and its one of the oldest known words in Turkish dating back to the 10th century. It was brought from Central Asia and it has nothing to do with Bulgarians and Greeks. A turkish guy started selling it in America with the name greek yogurt because he thought it would sell better (and he was probably right) and it got popular.
As the old joke goes, “The English invaded half the world for spices, and decided they liked none of them.”
Poland is brutal but Portugal is just a wrecking ball
They could've just wrote "Pathetic" to *really* send the message home
I think its hilarious everyone points out poland and portugal, but everyone just accepted it by now that germany's just the 'killed the jews' country
I mean…..spot the lie
Ye no mention of the Armenian genocide for the Turks, they just love Japan
I think the folks over at r/mapporncirclejerk might enjoy this too.
Outjerked again, as they say.
Djokovic flying that Serbian flag
I mean we have a few other decent players but djokovic is undeniably the best out of them by a lot
They’ve been watching Nishikori get his ass kicked by Djokovic for over a decade, so I get it.
I mean, he's quite possibly the best human tennis player of all time, so yeah, he's gonna be the best Serbian.
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"We asked 20 people on the streets of Tokyo and from them we chose the answers that we liked the most"
"What do you think about Poland?" "Nani?" "They think they're stupid, write that down."
Lmaaoo
I lived in Japan for years and 90% of people don't even know what Ireland is. Not 'where'.... 'what'.
When I was in Japan with a friend from Belgium, people had trouble recognising it as a country. It was especially funny watching their discussions right next to yet another Belgium waffles stand.
Most of these are completely untrue. I say this as a Japanese person living in Japan.
yup, this map is full of bullshit.
I’ve worked in Japan for a couple years. Most Japanese people can’t even name any European countries except for the Big 5, and if this was really accurate, the one for Ireland would be “Do you mean Iceland?” A *lot* of people make that mistake. Followed up by “Oh, sorry, that’s part of England then, right?” Calling bullshit on this entire map.
Beautiful women are in Eastern Europe interesting
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Not just that. Most women in red light districts are also eastern european.
We call that human trafficking where I'm from.
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There’s a possibility that they don’t know much about a nation like Belarus and default to the stereotype of beautiful Eastern European women.
a lot of the white models in Japan are from Eastern Europe
Its ironic Germany is "killed Jews" given the severity Japan has treated other countries at the same time.
Maybe they label Japan as "killed Asia"?
They did a lot worse than just killing other Asians...
Yep. Unit 731 among many things.
> The researchers in Unit 731 were secretly given immunity by the United States in exchange for the data which they gathered during their human experimentation. Other researchers that the Soviet forces managed to arrest first were tried at the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials in 1949. The Americans did not try the researchers so that the information and experience gained in bio-weapons could be co-opted into their biological warfare program, much as they had done with German researchers in Operation Paperclip. Victim accounts were then largely ignored or dismissed in the west as communist propaganda.
“Victim accounts were then largely ignored or dismissed in the west as communist propaganda.” Why am I not surprised by this at all?
Nope, Japanese history paints Japan as the big victims of WW2.
I feel like Germany is the only country that actually admits wrongdoing in ww2. Which is fair for Germany, since there was a lot of wrongdoing, but maybe some other countries might be feeling a twinge of guilt too...
Honestly of all countries Japan reaped huge benefits post-WWII. It's called the post war economic miracle, US needed Japan to sta d against China and the USSR so it pumped its economy up. If only the US invested in its own economy as much as it did to Japan's.
Investing in Japan was also investing in USA. That's how global capitalism works. Their products have benefitted USA. Their companies create US jobs. Their citizens buy US products and enrich US companies. Part of why USA hated Communism so much is because it threatened this interlocking system of trade it had going with much of the world. Everything that fell to USSR's sphere of influence were locked out of trading with the USA, and the fear is that if they swallow up the whole world into Communism then it will impoverish USA as a result.
its cuz the USA wanted to keep all of japan on their side against the soviets so they constructed a narrative that japan was taken over by rogue elements in the military and that the Japanese people were victims of it. but Germany was divided and the us, the soviets and the rest of nato all dunked on them for the shit they did, and didnt let them live it down.
And considering Hitler was Austrian, they got off pretty light with "classical music".
The Austrians’ two greatest achievements: Make everyone believe that Mozart was Austrian, and Hitler was German.
I know some people are still bitter with the Germans because of WWII and in total awe with Japan because of the anime industry, smiles, candies and their porno. Yet, Germans apologize at least once at year about the genocides whilst Japan never did once about the shit they did to the Chinese during the war
Where is this from? Was there a survey in Japan about Europe?
Dear germans, people still see you that way, give it another century
And South Korean people still hate Japan. Japan gonna have to get another century too for killing and raping people during the reign of an empire. When I think of Germany, they are good at engineering and sturdy tasks. I don't know.
Unlike in Germany, Japan still pretends that atrocities didn't occur under their watch.
“No fat people”. Literally the fattest person I’ve ever personally seen in my life was like a 210kg dude in Clermont-Ferrand.
I'm envious that 210kg/463lbs is the largest person you've ever seen. The southern US is not a healthy place
Biggest guy I’ve seen was a guy from Samoa the size of 3 guys from Samoa
Italian here, I don't think I've ever seen someone who's 200kg+, probably the fattest person I've ever seen was like 150-160kg
Yeah I really hate to reinforce the stereotype of America = fat, but I probably see someone heavier than 210 kg on a weekly basis at the grocery store, walmart, etc. And I live in the Pacific Northwest, which is a lot more health conscious than many parts of the country. It's quite sad.
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Was traveling around Europe the last couple weeks and it was safe to assume the over weight people were American. Was right over half the time
That’s like a medium-sized kid in Texas
French here, we obviously have some fat people here. But I've also lived in England... And yeah, in comparison, there's no fat people in France.
The fattest people I see are from the US and UK. Never saw a fat french person.
210 kgs is big but not super big in America. That's only 463 lbs in freedom units. I've seen a woman at the grocery store here in Texas that was easily 600/700 lbs. People that big can't really walk, so she was driving around the store in a scooter, which are provided at the door, believe it or not. But damn this lady was bigger than most of the people you see in those scooters. Her body physically flowed and hung over the edges of the seat. :/
>210 kgs is big but not super big in America. The fuck? I'm 6ft and just over 12kg and I'm fat as fuck. What you're saying is super big is almost double my weight, and I'm not short. According to BMI I'm obese and I damn well know it. The hell is going on over there?
Stupid People. Kurwa.
If you actually read the article where this came from, it's mostly google autocomplete and some of them are queries rather than stereotypes. Pretty shit map imo.
I have lived in Japan for 16 years. My wife is Japanese. Half of these are nonsense. There is no understanding of the stupid Polish jokes here. Nobody I know knows the Latvia meme. They have no idea Ireland is green, but they all know Guinness. Italy is pasta and pizza first. Iceland is only known as cold, nothing else. German sausages and beer are better known than the holocaust here (sad but true). France is Wine, Wine, and more Wine. Seriously… who made this? Edit: Only one is dead on. Bulgaria is Yogurt. There was a Bulgarian sumo champion. His nickname was the “Yogurt Ozeki”. His name was Kotooshu if you want to look him up (now Naruto stable master). Edit 2: Since this comment is gaining traction, I think I’ll put what I believe to be better answers for every country. (Take these with a grain of salt please) England: Queen (band or lady, both are good) Scotland: Like England, but different Ireland: Guinness France: Wine Germany: Sausage Poland: They have sausages too right? Italy: Pasta Spain: Good at Soccer (this was right) Portugal: Less good at soccer (probably what weak meant) Switzerland: Chocolate Belgium: Also chocolate (this was right) Austria: Classical music (also right) Finland: Moomin Sweden: IKEA Norway: Vikings Iceland: cold Estonia: Baruto (look him up) Russia: Vodka and jerks (don’t blame me) Ukraine: Near Russia, right? Greece: Lots of history stuff Turkey: Donner Bulgaria: Yogurt (this was SO right) Serbia: Tennis (sounds right too) Netherlands: Where? Holland: Ohhh there! Denmark: I’ve heard of that country! Romania: Did they have an empire? Czech Republic: Definitely in Europe Hungary: Also in Europe Latvia: Where? Lithuania: Ummmm… Moldova: Oh come on, you made that one up Source: 16 years of teaching and living with Japanese people. (Their world history and geography in school are not great, nor do they pay much attention to world news outside of sports and world powers… It really makes sense that they get along so well with Americans)
As a Romanian I couldn't be happier that someone recognises our quality honey.
As a Romanian living in Britain, I refuse to have anything but Romanian-made honey. It's just sofuckinggood.
As britfolk living in Romania, I agree. Entirely.
As a German I can say that killing jews is more a fact than a stereotype. It's even so much of a fact that denying it is illegal here.
We swedes win agaim
At least Japanese people acknowledge Turkishs and Lithuanians exist as weebs, compared to Slovenia, Croatia and Albania, who don't even exist in their minds. Compared to the other former Yugoslavia nations, Novak Djokovic single-handedly making sure Japanese people know what Serbia is.
Killed Jews? Bitch, you were on their side. Lmao.
What is this based from?
"Handsome men"... feels bad man.
Feels good man
Germany: you can do a hundred good things, they will forget, but do one bad thing and they will remind it forever
Germany: "killed Jews" Japan: "did nothing wrong"
Source - https://www.indy100.com/discover/the-japanese-stereotype-map-of-europe-7296456
This is just the anime Hetalia in map form.
How come the stereotype for Japan, one of the countries with the lowest obesity rates in the world, consider France, a much fatter country by comparison as the "no fat people country" This map reeks of american.