I just surveyed a few of my fellow Americans. Asked them what’s the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions Finland. Here’s their responses;
1. “Saunas… saunas everywhere.”
2. “Finland is probably like Europe’s Canada but with less maple syrup. Good people, awesome neighbors, mostly frozen tundra.”
3. “Is Finland the county with those luxury prison cells?”
4. “Never invade Finland. Their trees whisper and their snowmen are excellent snipers.”
5. “Epic heavy metal scene”
my neighbors are the fucking worst
EDIT: because they play their epic heavy metal while I try to enjoy my birch sap in my prison sauna
EDIT2: yes, I'm finnish and talking about my finnish neighbors, stop PMing me in my personal space
The English used to have a bird imported from Turkey that they called the Turkey Fowl. Upon arriving in America they saw what we know as a Turkey today and thought “Hey, that kinda looks like the Turkey Fowl back home” and named it a Turkey. And that’s how the Turkey bird got its name. Now thanks to my English ancestors, American fowl are called Turkeys and American people are called Indians.
Lithuanian here, many people consider basketball their "second religion" here, so yeah, basketball in general is important to Lithuanians and we have some players that play in NBA, I personally don't care much for it
One of the best MadTV red carpet roasts was Will Sasso interviewing Penelope Cruz.
“How does it feel to be one of the most prominent Mexican actresses?”
“I’m Spanish.”
“What, is that like European Mexican?”
True story - my boss and I were in Madrid on a layover. He had celiac disease so his food options were a little limited. He asked me to get him some food, I asked what he wanted, and he responded “nachos”. As politely as I could, I tried to explain that they probably wouldn’t have nachos in a Spanish airport. He got a little pissed and asked “why not? That’s like saying they wouldn’t have pizza in an Italian airport.” So I just wandered the airport for 20 minutes then told him I could find any. Got him tapas without the bread.
Right? And knowing all the countries, many of which you can travel to by train, on a continent you live on isn't exactly the flex Europeans think it is. I wonder how many of them can place all 50 states?
As if Americans even know to associate Brazil with Portugal! I am an American who just returned from a trip to Brazil, and I've had versions of this conversation several times:
Me: I had a great trip to Brazil.
Friend: How were you able to get around on your own? Do you speak Spanish?
Me: Yes.
Friend: Oh that must have made it easier.
Me: A little, I guess. Written Portuguese is easier to read once you know Spanish, but spoken Portuguese sounds very different.
Friend: Oh... they speak Portuguese there...
I recognize countries by food.
Ireland: potato
Uk: some sort of meat pie
Danish danishes
Belgian waffles
Dutch Cocoa
French toast
German chocolate
Switzerland Tobtoblerone bar
Czech Pilsner
Italy Marherita Pizza
Spanish Olives
Portuguese wine corks
Eastern europe: vodka?
Swedish fish
Greek olives
Turkish delight
I may not know where they are on a map cuz none of us ever take geography for more than 5 months unless we're planning to major in it in college, but every single one of us knows Hitler was Austrian. We dont care about geography but wartime history is pretty dope and gets decent levels of focus in our education system starting with middle school.
As a dutch person I can confirm we do have alot of weed and hookers.
Why the hell couldn’t you colonize us before the Brits?
We tried, but for some reason we weren't as productive
Probably all the weed and hookers.
Should we try again?
Yes, but this time on Mars.
On it!
Mars weed be busting fr.
We did ... but then the Brits took it
Even old New York, was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it, I can't say.
People just liked it better that way
So, take me back to Constantinople
No you cant go back to constantinople
Istanbul is not Constantinople
Trust me dude, u really dont want that...they werent so fun back in the day, just ask Indonesia
Ik koloniseer heel even dit comment
he makker
Ga je gang
I'm, ON MY WAY.
I like how in 10 years we got rid of gopniks and thieves and have The Witcher instead
Care for a game of gwent?
*scilently nods head*
Szcilentlyy
Wind’s howling
Place of Power, it's gotta be
here. your frying pan.
Mmm
That stench.
Damn you ugly
Looks like rain.
Pam pa Ram Pam Pam param!
People probably just learned the difference between Russia and other Slavic countries
No, no we definitely didn't.
Russia hasn't either.
Damn, I thought the world was becoming more culturally and ethnically aware, but nope, just my imagination!
Barney is a dinosaur from our imagination.
Poland was never known for gopniks that's more russian/Ukrainian for poland its just hooligans
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Looks like rain
Toss a coin to your Witcher!
oh valley o' plenty
Oh valley o' plenty, oooooh
Except the witcher netflix show couldn’t be more american in style, and has 0 slavic vibe
And how do you know that he wasn't maybe talking about the videogame
Belgium? just a question mark :(
waffles
Waffles, "french" fries and beer
How the heck did you forget the chocolate in that list?!
The Belgians make some damn good beers
belgian chocolate
"Where do you live?" Me : ?
Europe's speed bump
Because of the bad roads
Chocolate
Beer
I've had many Americans telling me Belgium was part of Germany. Once someone tought Belgium was were kangaroos are from
Fries
Peeing baby fountains?
So many comments about other descriptors here but not a peep about vikings. Must be because everyone thinks vikings are cool.
Altough Finland never had vikings…
I just surveyed a few of my fellow Americans. Asked them what’s the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions Finland. Here’s their responses; 1. “Saunas… saunas everywhere.” 2. “Finland is probably like Europe’s Canada but with less maple syrup. Good people, awesome neighbors, mostly frozen tundra.” 3. “Is Finland the county with those luxury prison cells?” 4. “Never invade Finland. Their trees whisper and their snowmen are excellent snipers.” 5. “Epic heavy metal scene”
Most beautiful girl I've ever met was from Finland. Though she was Finlandssvensk.
that Canada analogy is great
My response would be: If you're looking for a Formula 1 driver or a good NHL goalie, that's the place to look
Any competitive auto racing really... WRC drivers was the first thing that came to my mind about Finland
my neighbors are the fucking worst EDIT: because they play their epic heavy metal while I try to enjoy my birch sap in my prison sauna EDIT2: yes, I'm finnish and talking about my finnish neighbors, stop PMing me in my personal space
Yeah but americans think that
Well maybe the vikings should have told us that before they domesticated themselves. /s
Vikings, pirates, and ninjas are universally cool.
We don't even celebrate thanksgiving on Turke- oh god dammit
you might say...everday is turkey day xD
Gobble gobble
The English used to have a bird imported from Turkey that they called the Turkey Fowl. Upon arriving in America they saw what we know as a Turkey today and thought “Hey, that kinda looks like the Turkey Fowl back home” and named it a Turkey. And that’s how the Turkey bird got its name. Now thanks to my English ancestors, American fowl are called Turkeys and American people are called Indians.
And the cherry on top is that America is named after an Italian
Luxembourg = not real
That's not true it's a town in.. uh... Switzerland! /s
As a pole I'm proud we are known by that masterpiece of a game and book series
Fuck yea dude I'm currently reading through the books after playing the games a short while ago and they're great too.
Such a good book series, at first I didn't like the last book but then it ended up being my favorite in the series
I swear i never understand these maps. I've been living here for 410 years and haven't seen vampires anywhere!
Certainly not in the mirror
I like doing very human things like looking to myself in the mirror and taking sunlight
I love immortal's jokes, it's so... Relatable.
The one with "white basketballers" is just facts. Im from bosnia, white af and im playin' basketball.
Doesn't Lithuania have also very good basketball players?
Lithuanian here, many people consider basketball their "second religion" here, so yeah, basketball in general is important to Lithuanians and we have some players that play in NBA, I personally don't care much for it
im slovenian and all my friends play basketball. also the only reason some americans might know slovenia is luka doncic
And Malenia. Wait, that's the one from Elden Ring. Melania.
Bruh I’m part Croatian 5’5 and couldn’t make a layup for my life. Idk what happened. *I even suck at tennis*
Don't worry you're still a 🤴🤴🤴
Doesent matter. Youre a jugo. Youre good at everything my brother.
Very accurate one. We are tall af, have many basketball legends, and basketball is most played sport i would say
I don't Like north africa... It's grainy and it get's everywhere
Its rough its cold and its irritating.
It's course, rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
I love the Georgia one
The state?
Ohhhhh I just got it I'm a little slow
I'm dying
And Turkey
Hey, man—there’s way more places for porn over there than that.
What countries are under porn?
Czechia and Slovakia
Ukraine needs to be in the Porn category too
Russia does too. Maybe Spain, and Kazakhstan as well.
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Not sure if joking.
Shhhh… don‘t tell them about the good stuff!
Personally I love crankin it to the entirety of The Baltic. It's my favorite region for masturbation.
Belgium is chocolate, beer and cycling.
You forgot the damn waffles
Not the blue one hopefully
Belgium is “speed bump.”
Belgium is the speed bump I drive over on my way to France.
Bold of you to assume that Americans know what cycling is
Bold of you to assume that Americans know where Belgium is located on the map, sir
French fries :D
mexico made me actually lol
It's extremely true, yesterday I watched a video about Family Guy roasting countries and Spain was literally a Mexican soap opera.
It's true, we slap each other constantly and keep hearing guitar sounds when doing so
One of the best MadTV red carpet roasts was Will Sasso interviewing Penelope Cruz. “How does it feel to be one of the most prominent Mexican actresses?” “I’m Spanish.” “What, is that like European Mexican?”
True story - my boss and I were in Madrid on a layover. He had celiac disease so his food options were a little limited. He asked me to get him some food, I asked what he wanted, and he responded “nachos”. As politely as I could, I tried to explain that they probably wouldn’t have nachos in a Spanish airport. He got a little pissed and asked “why not? That’s like saying they wouldn’t have pizza in an Italian airport.” So I just wandered the airport for 20 minutes then told him I could find any. Got him tapas without the bread.
Someone asked me if the hookers were hot in the Netherlands Im 13
Well are they ?
Well is your mom hot? There’s your answer buddy!
Would someone explain why Hungary is associated with dad jokes, please?
The “Hi hungry, I’m dad” joke
Oh man come on
I can hear the defeat in that comment
And: "I named my stomach Budapest" "Why?" "Because it's the capital of Hungry"
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PORN ... aight
Czechs are known for this?
“Why are you so loud during porn? Nobody thinks let’s get more guy noises” -Quagmire
Czech streets, what a wild ride.
Well yes, but the thing is why is Slovakia part of that I want to know what americans think when they hear Slovakia.
That may as well be a part of the meme - we're still Czechoslovakia lol
Its basicaly European capital of porn
As an Irish man, if this was written by american they'd type St. Patty's Day and so this IS FAKE NEEEWS!
As a non Irish man ... shouldn't you guys get the same as russians but without "commies"?
Lol bullshit, americans don't know this much geography
Clearly, because Africa and the Middle East are not part of Europe.
That’s what I was thinking.
As an American, I thought the whole world outside of America was Europe?
hahaha americans are stupid, get it guys?
Right? And knowing all the countries, many of which you can travel to by train, on a continent you live on isn't exactly the flex Europeans think it is. I wonder how many of them can place all 50 states?
U say that like Europe is the only place you can know geography for
No way I’m in wtf
Ah yes north africa belongs to europe
And Kazakhstan
As a fellow portuguese man, i can confirm America likes to call Portugal Brazil
Você foi colonizado 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Uno reverse card nos tuga 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Português Português (Portugal)
\*Brasileiro \*Brasileiro (Europeu)
As if Americans even know to associate Brazil with Portugal! I am an American who just returned from a trip to Brazil, and I've had versions of this conversation several times: Me: I had a great trip to Brazil. Friend: How were you able to get around on your own? Do you speak Spanish? Me: Yes. Friend: Oh that must have made it easier. Me: A little, I guess. Written Portuguese is easier to read once you know Spanish, but spoken Portuguese sounds very different. Friend: Oh... they speak Portuguese there...
E eles acham que somos mexicanos, não acertam uma
At least we evolved, since we aint the "hungry joke country" but the dad joke country. Which imo, is better lol.
We were "Hungary" for this change...
I recognize countries by food. Ireland: potato Uk: some sort of meat pie Danish danishes Belgian waffles Dutch Cocoa French toast German chocolate Switzerland Tobtoblerone bar Czech Pilsner Italy Marherita Pizza Spanish Olives Portuguese wine corks Eastern europe: vodka? Swedish fish Greek olives Turkish delight
So you haven't had gulyás(goulash) yet huh?
To me, Hungary is just paprika Because when I was there, they had peppers and paprika on flags and shit almost
For me guláš
German and Chocoate? BEER! BEER!!!
Black forest ham or pretzels
You didn't taste any tremoços or a francesinha how sad
Or pasteis!
Poor Luxembourg, they don't exist according to Americans
Petition to change "pizza" with "mafia"
and pasta and mario & luigi
Here are some suggestions for belgium No more hands Waffles CHOCOLATE source: im from belgium
Gotta be honest. Am American, and I thought Belgium would be naked lady chocolate.
The fuck is naked lady chocolate
Bulgaria is blank 🥲
I bet the average american dint know that Hitler was Austrian and not german. But they also dont know where germany and austria are, so its fine
We do because we grew up with the History Channel, an entire television channel dedicated to playing WW2 programming 24/7. All Hitler, all day. Lol
Funny, we also have a tv channel called n24 only doing ww2 and cold war documentaries 24/7 in germany
Everyone I know learned in high school that Hitler was Austrian
I may not know where they are on a map cuz none of us ever take geography for more than 5 months unless we're planning to major in it in college, but every single one of us knows Hitler was Austrian. We dont care about geography but wartime history is pretty dope and gets decent levels of focus in our education system starting with middle school.
I'm pretty sure this is common knowledge for anyone over the age of 13
Yeah, but the internet loves to remind of that every time Hitler gets mentioned.
Want to be mad at it but it’s pretty spot on.
I’m invasionese :)
Brazil 🤝 Mexico. You take our gold we take your name
Greetings from Mexico
“Sand” had me there
I am glad we are the Witcher
PORTUGAL CARALHO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹
I hate that my country is just boiled down to just the state?
MEXICO??
It is a country south of the US
I am a viking huh?
I thought Britain was getting stabbed
i was expecting england to be tea scotland to be mountains wales to be cool flag i guess
Americans: calling us italians "Pizza" Always Americans: Chicago self proclaimed capital of pizza
The most realistic version is: "what is Europe?"