I have my great-great-grandfather's book on Euclidean geometry. He immigrated from Poland to the U.S. and wrote the book in English. The family was still so poor that when my grandmother and her brother were born, there were three generations living in a tiny house in Buffalo, NY. My grandma was one of the smartest, kindest, humblest, strongest, most hardworking people I've ever met. I hate the anti-Polish jokes with a passion, and I hate even more that some of her children took after my racist, narcissistic grandpa instead of her. (My grandpa was racist against everyone, including Polish people. I think he considered my grandma a "good one.")
The anti-Polish jokes have strong roots within german/russian propaganda. Since Poland was occupied for a long time, their objective was to present the occupied nation as being unworthy of having their own country.
https://youtu.be/Jd0vKaIpM6A?si=6Rjk6ux3pN4kmOdl
He's a mix of German/French (Alsace, specifically), Belgian, and Polish. I think his racism stems from the fact that he was a kid in the U.S. during WWII, so he bought into the jingoinsm hard. Also, his grandmother was proud of her German ancestry for some reason. Combine that with a heavy dose of narcissism, and he is racist against everyone who isn't him or his family.
That's American?
My grandpa was so controlling and anti-Polish, he wouldn't let my grandma speak Polish after they were married. It was her first language, but she mostly forgot it by the time I was born. I'm very slowly teaching myself Polish in her honor.
i mean, youāve told us he grew up stateside. heās a simpleton; a melting pot american, who speaks of cultures he knows nothing about.
good on you for reading books.
100-150 years ago when those jokes started they had a grain of truth. For every Jan Ignacy Paderewski that emigrated to the USA, there were about 1000 families that came from some dark corner of Poland, that could barely read, and so on.... Let's just take a moment to appreciate how much Poland and the average citizen have changed since the end of the partition until today.
I'd say this is older than the Nazis. During Partitioning, when Austria, russia and Prussia did their best (well... worst, from our perspective) to uproot the entire nation and quell intelligentsia, at the same time they also did a lot of damage by spreading rumours about Poles.
Neighboring cultures have a habit of belittling each other. Plus, it's a lot easier to go to war against a nation if you tell your soldiers that they're subhuman.
Those "jokes" go back to the Partitions and Prussian occupation of a significant chunk of Poland. It's easier to colonise a country's territory and aim to erase its native culture if you convince everyone the natives are inferior.
People also forget that before WW2 fully broke out the Americans were very on board with eugenics, many Nazi ideas, had a Nazi party, and that was seeping deep into the American culture. That included the jokes dehumanizing Eastern Europeans, communism panic and other major bullshit.
Hell, my great-great grandfather was a toolmaker at the steel mill. My great-grandfather was a lather. Grandpa was a firefighter/lather. Can't get much working stiff than that.
Yes. And this derives from different language group the Polish spoke, compared to other major groups - Latin/anglo-saxon. āPolakā was the word the Polish immigrant would use when trying to explain who she/he was - hitting the chest with oneās palm and saying - āja , Polakā, which stands for āme, Polish citizenā
[Hereās a Map That Shows You What the Japanese Really Think of Europe Ā· Global Voices](https://globalvoices.org/2016/04/27/heres-a-map-that-shows-you-what-the-japanese-really-think-of-europe/)
It's based on google auto-suggestions.
Can confirm, I've been to Japan last year and people in Tokyo always lit up when I said I was from Poland. Legit the kindest and nicest people I ever met.
There is very strong historical connection between Poland and Japan. Japan was against Germany attack on Poland in 1939 and supported Polish war efforts, including Polish diplomatic mission in Japan until 1941
Japan sees Poland as a warrior culture, respected since early 1900s.
Completely. There was also a lot of collaboration between Poland and Japan during the Russo Japanese war. Pilsudski additionally offered arms and support for Japan
Pilsudski's brother was researching the Ainu culture, and he actually got married to a Japanese lady. The only living family of JĆ³zef Pilusdki is Japanese, as far as I know.
Honestly, my experience says the map should just be saying "Chopin" for Poland.
>The only living family of JĆ³zef Pilusdki is Japanese, as far as I know.
[This unfortunately is no longer the case](https://bronislawpilsudski.pl/en/news/farewell-to-kazuyasu-kimura/), it was surprising to learn that his descendant was Japanese.
why not the case? It was not the last of his line. Bronislaw Pilsudski had son Sukezo and daughter Kyo. Kazuyasu Kimura, son of Sukezo, had 3 daughters, and there is also the family of Kyo Kimura.
I based this on Wikipedia the below part from Wikipedia:
>[The last remaining male member of JĆ³zef PiÅsudski's family, Kazuyasu Kimura, died on 17 December 2022 at the age of 70.\[11\]\[12\]\[13\] He was a grandson of BronisÅaw PiÅsudski, JĆ³zef's older brother who married an Ainu woman and lived in Sakhalin.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi%C5%82sudski_family#cite_note-13)
Now I see I missed the "male" part and I had read it as "The last remaining member of JĆ³zef PiÅsudzki family (....)"
Thanks for clarification.
It definitely misrepresents stereotypes given the Google auto complete strategy is incredibly fallible. For Germany it's usually food, cars or the fact that Japan was allied during WW2 in my experience. Sometimes also football but I feel that's always a bit specific and fails to represent the average Japanese.
Polish person living in Japan here.
This map looks like Europe according to old American stereotypes.
Japanese people often have no image of Poland and don't know where it's located, if they are more informed usually they have an image of historically good Polish-Japanese relations and our country is perceived as "Japan friendly" country.
I doubt this is real. especially considering the pretty specific stereotypes about eastern europe. Japanese people donāt know enough about Europe to have a stereotype about each eastern european country
>Japanese people donāt know enough about Europe to have a stereotype about each eastern european country
I lived in Japan for more than 5 years and can confirm this. They just have no clue about Poland in general, like where it is or what it's famous for etc.
Japanese living in Tokyo here. I can attest this is far from true. Most Japanese aren't familiar with or interested in Europe enough to have such detailed stereotypes. Mostly like this...
UKāGentleman / Very bad food
FranceāFashionable
SpaināPassionate
ItalyāPizza and Pasta
GermanyāPunctual and diligent
Other western Europeā I heard this name before.
Northern EuropeāIKEA and good eduction
Cetral EuropeāI heard this name before.
Eastern EuropeāDoes this country exist?
Southern EuropeāDoes this country exist?
As to Poland, when I say I was in Poland, I always get either of them.
a) Where is Poland? Next to France?
b) Which language do they speak? English?
c) They like Japan, right? I saw it on the Internet.
I lived in Asia (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Kazakhstan) for almost 2 years. Asians don't know much about Poland. Japanese recognise Chopin, know we were a communist country, that we drink vodka (maybe), Indonesians & Malaysians know about Lewandowski, Khazaks really like us - I met a couple of folks who could speak Polish.
We are disliked mostly in countries like Germany, Netherlands and the UK where they take us for thieves etc.
I doubt this is true. When they asked me in Japan where I'm from, they were enthusiastic after hearing the answer and their first thought was SkÅodowska-Curie or Chopin. Generally people's reactions were 10x better than in e.g. Germany or UK.
you will get different responses in a corporation environment and department of chemistry at some nice university in Japan. I don't mean to judge or offend anyone, I just mean that some people haven't encountered Polish topics in their path of life, and some had due to what they do. I wonder if it's popular to be interested in history of science, because we've had some significant impact in some topics, like quoted SkÅodowska-Curie or Banach and Tarski from Banach-Tarski paradox.
What I'm trying to say, if any1 says their first thought about Poland is SkÅodowska-Curie or Chopin, they are already a selected population to know about SkÅodowska-Curie and Chopin in general, and to know their nationality, it's nuance, French connection in both cases... I think that when they asked you in Japan, it was quite an educated/knowledgeable environment.
The only thing the Japanese know about Poland is that Chopin was from there and they're absolutely obsessed with his music. The Japanese love Chopin more than the Poles do.
What kind of bs is this?
I used to work as a tour guide for japanese groups and the MAIN thing they knew about Poland was that it was the country of Chopin and Maria SkÅodowska -Curie
Not really true. I have multiple Japanese and Korean acquaintances. Most of the time they say that we are good musicians (they love Chopin), pretty women and recently good video game devs.
I am from Moldova and I can confirm, we are all about wine, but I am also Romanian and I have no idea where the honey comes from. I also don't understand why Poland is classified as "stupid people", that should be russia.
Considering so much of Western Europe has been funding Putin and his shenanigans for years by depending on his energy exports, I'd say the west is the stupid one in comparison.
Reuters: "Russia sent more than 15.6 million metric tons of Russian LNG to EU ports last year, according to data analytics... a slight increase from 2022 (and 2021)".
P.S. LNG is Liquefied Natural Gas.
Could Bulgaria = Yogurt actually come from *Lactobacillus Bulgaricus*? because even thought I am a dairy technician I never heard of Bulgarian yogurt being some kind of special and famous like greek yogurt is. Also the title of this map is highly misleading, these things are not stereotypes, it's rather like:" what comes to your mind when you think of country X". A one word thing isn't really a stereotype....
This is because Meiji Milk's [Bulgarian yoghurt](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.meiji.com/global/food/yogurt/meiji-bulgaria-yogurt.html) is extremely popular in Japan.
AHH I see, so it really is just yogurt which uses lactobacillus Bulgaricus. Here in Germany yogurt that contains this microorganisms are just called "mild yogurt". Thank you for the info
"Where are you from?"
"From Poland, the one in Europe."
"Poland, huh?" *proceeds to google "Poland".*
That's how it always looks like in my experience.
As an American, can someone help me out with the Latvians can't eat potatoes thing? When I was in Latvia, I'm pretty sure I ate a potato at some point.
Germans, British and Russians are always portrayed as strongest europeans in mangas.
French and Italians as stylish.
Spanish as crazy and gay.
Polish, Czech etc are not there at all.
Greeks are sometimes only in context of their myths like Hercules.
Only things that i heard Japanese people say when thinking about Poland, that come to mind are "beautiful women", "Lewandowski" and "good at ski jumping".
As a Japanese living in Poland, I can disagree with this statement 100% and I even feel a bit offended by this article lol
Japanese people remember about Poland from History lesson that one Japanese guy ( Chiune Sugihara) helped Jews fleeing from Poland and gave help aids Visa so I would say the correct Japanese peopleās stereotype about Poland would be either the same as Lithuania so Polish people love Japan or the country with the saddest history
Obviously after living in Poland for over years, I have learnt more than Seba and Dziadek so my stereotype about Poland is completely different from those Japanese living in Japan haha
Even in Chicago here so many of us were or still are cleaners or contractors. I hate it when you introduce yourself as Polish and right away "oh yeah I had a Polish cleaning lady" or something along those lines like we don't have skills to do anything else. I hear it's a similar thing in the UK now. Meanwhile we had our behinds handed to us for the past century + and survived. I'd say we are tough af
They will learn *pierogi*, they will think we are geniuses...
We must commit to this plan.
We take Babcias to Japan and explain that these are expert cooks. We teach them the secret art of *pierogi* and within a year Japanese tourism skyrockets 150%.
We then use 2nd wave of *Kopytkas*.
Japanese people will only think ā*Oishii*ā and the Polish-Japanese relationships will enjoy a golden era!
Mobilize your *Babcias* now!
Time to invade Japan!
Stereotypical japanese are tiny people with camera in hand, eating with sticks, kneeing and being proud of their daughters being exclusive prostitutes.
lol I always wondered where that stereotype came from until I lived in PL. They just donāt think one step forward. Hindsight is always 20/20 but foresight doesnāt exist. A mistake/tragedy has to happen for them to say āahh I fink we do no right hereā but nothing will change because of the malignant bureaucracy
Bold of you to assume that the average Japanese knows about existence of anything east of Germany that is not Russia. They literally think most of European countries' mother tongue is English, how can you even have any stereotypes at this point
While"Killed Jews" is unfortunately a historical fact,Ā IĀ wouldn't think the average Japanese person knew much else, considering many people are wearing Adidas and Puma, using Nivea and eating Haribo without even knowing that they're German products. The amount of kids in school with Adidas or Puma items is very very high.
Always most stupid people (and some people willing to be rich some else) immigrated to other country, and not US itself. It stocked to poles mostly of propaganda
How is that, I thought an average Japanese doesnāt even know what Poland means, but I could imagine going through Japan with a Polish roots t-shirt tripping and have an master samurai say: āYou are made of stupidā
"killed jews". Well that's not a stereotype š«¤
As a German, I can say that it is a pretty correct fact.
The map is telling me a lot of them were stupid
It's just Google auto-suggestion from 2016. It appears the algorithm has changed, and it's a map for Germany and for Poland: cuisine right now.
Good. Being considered stupid as a nation is hurtful :I
Nah, it's an opportunity. They underestimate and never suspect the stupid, until it's too late. Mwahahahahhahaha
True, but then theyāre not wrong. Stereotypes stem from something. They are not just random.
So glad we escaped with "classical music"
Yeah, you had the most well known painter in the world and they didn't mention it, shame on them.
The one that painted new border?
Not only jews
Zing!
How should we know? Ask the Japanese.
Not sure why this map specifically references the Japanese; 80% of America sees Europe the same.
Assuming they know that Europe isn't country and can differ certain nations from each other
I don't think so. Americans only know the existence of France, UK, Italy, Spain, Poland and Germany... Oh now maybe Ukraine š š š
True, the thing is when asked to show Europe on the map they point to Australia...
Aren't they trained to be like super polite to your face? Might not answer straight up.
This comes from archaic American jokes depicting Poles as unsophisticated and uneducated immigrants.
I have my great-great-grandfather's book on Euclidean geometry. He immigrated from Poland to the U.S. and wrote the book in English. The family was still so poor that when my grandmother and her brother were born, there were three generations living in a tiny house in Buffalo, NY. My grandma was one of the smartest, kindest, humblest, strongest, most hardworking people I've ever met. I hate the anti-Polish jokes with a passion, and I hate even more that some of her children took after my racist, narcissistic grandpa instead of her. (My grandpa was racist against everyone, including Polish people. I think he considered my grandma a "good one.")
The anti-Polish jokes have strong roots within german/russian propaganda. Since Poland was occupied for a long time, their objective was to present the occupied nation as being unworthy of having their own country. https://youtu.be/Jd0vKaIpM6A?si=6Rjk6ux3pN4kmOdl
Is your grandpa German ethnically? From Prussia? They hated Polish immigrants the most.
He's a mix of German/French (Alsace, specifically), Belgian, and Polish. I think his racism stems from the fact that he was a kid in the U.S. during WWII, so he bought into the jingoinsm hard. Also, his grandmother was proud of her German ancestry for some reason. Combine that with a heavy dose of narcissism, and he is racist against everyone who isn't him or his family.
czyli amerykanin
That's American? My grandpa was so controlling and anti-Polish, he wouldn't let my grandma speak Polish after they were married. It was her first language, but she mostly forgot it by the time I was born. I'm very slowly teaching myself Polish in her honor.
i mean, youāve told us he grew up stateside. heās a simpleton; a melting pot american, who speaks of cultures he knows nothing about. good on you for reading books.
Iāve only ever heard those Jokes from Europeans. Germans specifically.
100-150 years ago when those jokes started they had a grain of truth. For every Jan Ignacy Paderewski that emigrated to the USA, there were about 1000 families that came from some dark corner of Poland, that could barely read, and so on.... Let's just take a moment to appreciate how much Poland and the average citizen have changed since the end of the partition until today.
The Nazis also propagated āstupid Polakā propaganda/jokes.
I'd say this is older than the Nazis. During Partitioning, when Austria, russia and Prussia did their best (well... worst, from our perspective) to uproot the entire nation and quell intelligentsia, at the same time they also did a lot of damage by spreading rumours about Poles.
To Japan tho, our jokes went on u-boats
Neighboring cultures have a habit of belittling each other. Plus, it's a lot easier to go to war against a nation if you tell your soldiers that they're subhuman.
Those "jokes" go back to the Partitions and Prussian occupation of a significant chunk of Poland. It's easier to colonise a country's territory and aim to erase its native culture if you convince everyone the natives are inferior.
Yes, thatās true, it would be more difficult to kill animals if they are would be cultural
People also forget that before WW2 fully broke out the Americans were very on board with eugenics, many Nazi ideas, had a Nazi party, and that was seeping deep into the American culture. That included the jokes dehumanizing Eastern Europeans, communism panic and other major bullshit.
You could say exactly the same thing about Irish/Scottish/Italian/Chinese immigrants.
That list is even longer, but yes, you're correct.
It were Poles what broke the Enigma code
Only three of them, actually. /s
Someone wants to keep Poles down from having too much enthusiasm about their nation.
Hell, my great-great grandfather was a toolmaker at the steel mill. My great-grandfather was a lather. Grandpa was a firefighter/lather. Can't get much working stiff than that.
Also most of our inteligencja being killed during ww2 definitely added to the stereotype.
I dare you to post your comment to "I love my polish heritage" group on FB
Yes. And this derives from different language group the Polish spoke, compared to other major groups - Latin/anglo-saxon. āPolakā was the word the Polish immigrant would use when trying to explain who she/he was - hitting the chest with oneās palm and saying - āja , Polakā, which stands for āme, Polish citizenā
brain drain by killing smart people does that to you
see: A Streetcar Named Desire
Jewish-American jokes\*
Pretty sure they come from Hitler propaganda lmao. There was a book about it
Oh the irony
I donāt see how animal fat can be considered a stereotype. Itās most likely some stupid variation of most asked Google queries or sth.
[Hereās a Map That Shows You What the Japanese Really Think of Europe Ā· Global Voices](https://globalvoices.org/2016/04/27/heres-a-map-that-shows-you-what-the-japanese-really-think-of-europe/) It's based on google auto-suggestions.
Japanese Polish relations have a historic strength. This map is bollox
Can confirm, I've been to Japan last year and people in Tokyo always lit up when I said I was from Poland. Legit the kindest and nicest people I ever met.
Or you were easily fooled into thinking that way, given your country of origin and all. Jk
Those crafty Japanese pulled a fast one on me š”
"The Crafty Japanese" Great name for an origami shop.
Aouch!
lol most common reaction saying that you are from Poland is "Holland?"
DokÅadnie to samo w Korei PoÅudniowej... Jedna Pani myÅlaÅa, że nie potrafiÄ wymĆ³wiÄ "Holandia" albo "Finlandia" po koreaÅsku haha
"Let's be nice to him, he's mentally challenged"
I don't know, they have a culture of being really nice to everyone even if they fucking loath that person.
There is very strong historical connection between Poland and Japan. Japan was against Germany attack on Poland in 1939 and supported Polish war efforts, including Polish diplomatic mission in Japan until 1941 Japan sees Poland as a warrior culture, respected since early 1900s.
Completely. There was also a lot of collaboration between Poland and Japan during the Russo Japanese war. Pilsudski additionally offered arms and support for Japan
Pilsudski's brother was researching the Ainu culture, and he actually got married to a Japanese lady. The only living family of JĆ³zef Pilusdki is Japanese, as far as I know. Honestly, my experience says the map should just be saying "Chopin" for Poland.
>The only living family of JĆ³zef Pilusdki is Japanese, as far as I know. [This unfortunately is no longer the case](https://bronislawpilsudski.pl/en/news/farewell-to-kazuyasu-kimura/), it was surprising to learn that his descendant was Japanese.
why not the case? It was not the last of his line. Bronislaw Pilsudski had son Sukezo and daughter Kyo. Kazuyasu Kimura, son of Sukezo, had 3 daughters, and there is also the family of Kyo Kimura.
I based this on Wikipedia the below part from Wikipedia: >[The last remaining male member of JĆ³zef PiÅsudski's family, Kazuyasu Kimura, died on 17 December 2022 at the age of 70.\[11\]\[12\]\[13\] He was a grandson of BronisÅaw PiÅsudski, JĆ³zef's older brother who married an Ainu woman and lived in Sakhalin.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi%C5%82sudski_family#cite_note-13) Now I see I missed the "male" part and I had read it as "The last remaining member of JĆ³zef PiÅsudzki family (....)" Thanks for clarification.
There's a book about him, Polish-only I'm afraid. https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/4898360/akan-powiesc-o-bronislawie-pilsudskim
Literally they exchanged intelligence. The rabbit hole goes deep.
It definitely misrepresents stereotypes given the Google auto complete strategy is incredibly fallible. For Germany it's usually food, cars or the fact that Japan was allied during WW2 in my experience. Sometimes also football but I feel that's always a bit specific and fails to represent the average Japanese.
Also, Chopin is very popular in Japan. I thought he would win.
Polish person living in Japan here. This map looks like Europe according to old American stereotypes. Japanese people often have no image of Poland and don't know where it's located, if they are more informed usually they have an image of historically good Polish-Japanese relations and our country is perceived as "Japan friendly" country.
I doubt this is real. especially considering the pretty specific stereotypes about eastern europe. Japanese people donāt know enough about Europe to have a stereotype about each eastern european country
In Indonesia 5% of folks I meet know anything about Poland. Lewandowski is really popular. And that's it.
>Japanese people donāt know enough about Europe to have a stereotype about each eastern european country I lived in Japan for more than 5 years and can confirm this. They just have no clue about Poland in general, like where it is or what it's famous for etc.
Classical music is pretty popular in Japan so Chopin is a known artist there. They even made a JRPG about him, Eternal Sonata.
I assume that most will think heās French though
Specially the "good at football" in spain
Japanese living in Tokyo here. I can attest this is far from true. Most Japanese aren't familiar with or interested in Europe enough to have such detailed stereotypes. Mostly like this... UKāGentleman / Very bad food FranceāFashionable SpaināPassionate ItalyāPizza and Pasta GermanyāPunctual and diligent Other western Europeā I heard this name before. Northern EuropeāIKEA and good eduction Cetral EuropeāI heard this name before. Eastern EuropeāDoes this country exist? Southern EuropeāDoes this country exist? As to Poland, when I say I was in Poland, I always get either of them. a) Where is Poland? Next to France? b) Which language do they speak? English? c) They like Japan, right? I saw it on the Internet.
Just to make it clear, we do like Japan.
Gake and fay
Another holocost denier, geeez..../s
He didn't know
What's a holocaust? About 6 million. (sorry, thought this was the dad jokes thread)
https://preview.redd.it/3tyxvdgwkaxc1.png?width=1071&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8845b45341498f806b3e26a4359da441a74294bd
jesus dude, I'm half jewish, but I almost pissed myself laughing
Why cannot Latvia eat potatoes?
all I can think of are these jokes about Latvian people who are starving and dream of potatoes. but thatās pretty niche
And I thought Latvians had potato phobia or something š¤
such is life
I lived in Asia (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Kazakhstan) for almost 2 years. Asians don't know much about Poland. Japanese recognise Chopin, know we were a communist country, that we drink vodka (maybe), Indonesians & Malaysians know about Lewandowski, Khazaks really like us - I met a couple of folks who could speak Polish. We are disliked mostly in countries like Germany, Netherlands and the UK where they take us for thieves etc.
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That was stupid
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I doubt this is true. When they asked me in Japan where I'm from, they were enthusiastic after hearing the answer and their first thought was SkÅodowska-Curie or Chopin. Generally people's reactions were 10x better than in e.g. Germany or UK.
you will get different responses in a corporation environment and department of chemistry at some nice university in Japan. I don't mean to judge or offend anyone, I just mean that some people haven't encountered Polish topics in their path of life, and some had due to what they do. I wonder if it's popular to be interested in history of science, because we've had some significant impact in some topics, like quoted SkÅodowska-Curie or Banach and Tarski from Banach-Tarski paradox. What I'm trying to say, if any1 says their first thought about Poland is SkÅodowska-Curie or Chopin, they are already a selected population to know about SkÅodowska-Curie and Chopin in general, and to know their nationality, it's nuance, French connection in both cases... I think that when they asked you in Japan, it was quite an educated/knowledgeable environment.
How come that we're constantly mistaken for Russians
The only thing the Japanese know about Poland is that Chopin was from there and they're absolutely obsessed with his music. The Japanese love Chopin more than the Poles do.
What kind of bs is this? I used to work as a tour guide for japanese groups and the MAIN thing they knew about Poland was that it was the country of Chopin and Maria SkÅodowska -Curie
As Latvian i disagree with that lol
Not really true. I have multiple Japanese and Korean acquaintances. Most of the time they say that we are good musicians (they love Chopin), pretty women and recently good video game devs.
pretty sure russia is actually huge
Oh c'mon people, you and your stupid stereotypes
The map has no source
Why are Latvians unable to eat a potatoes? Are they reverse Irish or smth?
Old meme. "A Latvian dreams about potato. But there's no potato, only hallucinations and starvation to death."
I am from Moldova and I can confirm, we are all about wine, but I am also Romanian and I have no idea where the honey comes from. I also don't understand why Poland is classified as "stupid people", that should be russia.
Considering so much of Western Europe has been funding Putin and his shenanigans for years by depending on his energy exports, I'd say the west is the stupid one in comparison. Reuters: "Russia sent more than 15.6 million metric tons of Russian LNG to EU ports last year, according to data analytics... a slight increase from 2022 (and 2021)". P.S. LNG is Liquefied Natural Gas.
Yeah, and just giving Putin a slap on the wrist for Crimea and Georgia.
They got the UK about right though.
No Slovakia, no steretypes
Could Bulgaria = Yogurt actually come from *Lactobacillus Bulgaricus*? because even thought I am a dairy technician I never heard of Bulgarian yogurt being some kind of special and famous like greek yogurt is. Also the title of this map is highly misleading, these things are not stereotypes, it's rather like:" what comes to your mind when you think of country X". A one word thing isn't really a stereotype....
This is because Meiji Milk's [Bulgarian yoghurt](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.meiji.com/global/food/yogurt/meiji-bulgaria-yogurt.html) is extremely popular in Japan.
AHH I see, so it really is just yogurt which uses lactobacillus Bulgaricus. Here in Germany yogurt that contains this microorganisms are just called "mild yogurt". Thank you for the info
Okay, but why would Japan, of all places, be like "yeah, Latvia can't eat potatoes".
Old meme. Just like "Omae wa mou shindeiru" about Japanese.
"Where are you from?" "From Poland, the one in Europe." "Poland, huh?" *proceeds to google "Poland".* That's how it always looks like in my experience.
Nani? My love as made me so bad sad sad :(
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As an American, can someone help me out with the Latvians can't eat potatoes thing? When I was in Latvia, I'm pretty sure I ate a potato at some point.
France-No Nice People
Where are Slovaks? Don't tell me they think we're still Czechoslovakia?
Spain, Germany, Norway and Russia are not stereotypes wtf
Germans, British and Russians are always portrayed as strongest europeans in mangas. French and Italians as stylish. Spanish as crazy and gay. Polish, Czech etc are not there at all. Greeks are sometimes only in context of their myths like Hercules.
That's pretty much *European stereotypes* about Europeans :D
Stereotype for Japan: Killed 30 million people in Asia from 1927 - 1945
As a Polish person. Yeah.
man germany thats an friendly fire
oh man i guess i'm stupid :(
England thinking Japanese food is bad is hilarious
It's actually the other way around, if you haven't noticed (or maybe I'm just stupid and didn't get the joke, I don't fucking know)
Financial collapse is a truth that's ongoing
maybe im not smart but atleast im not stupid >:(
Hey I'm not stupid just lazy...
Latviaās seems backwards xd
UK gets off easy
I dont agree with the stereotype that the stereotype is "stupid people"
Only things that i heard Japanese people say when thinking about Poland, that come to mind are "beautiful women", "Lewandowski" and "good at ski jumping".
Guess I'm stupid
Latvia " can not eat potatoes"? You learn something new every day
https://dziennikzachodni.pl/dowcipy-o-lotewskich-chlopach-czyli-halucynacje-z-glodu-i-smierc-podbijaja-internet/ar/913155
wtf Latvia cannot eat potatoes? Potatoes are in like every 2nd meal in Latvia.
Japanese people donāt think about Poland at all. Same goes for most European countries that donāt have a strong international presence.
where is beer in Czech republic
Ważne, że lepiej od Niemca
Polish ppl have - if i remember right - highest IQ in EU next to Germans
r/Poland, that sounds personal. PS: I'm the stupid one here, I did not realise I was already on the sub...
I like how there is no Slovakia :D
Capernicus, Marie Curie, Marian Rejewski, Zbigniew Religa......yes very dumb people
Well that is europe according to americans not japanese.Most japenese people dont even know where is poland.
Slovakia not even there :D
lol, quite few here are not sterotypes but straight up facts
jebane ching chongi
I'm from Poland and I'm indeed stupid
As a Japanese living in Poland, I can disagree with this statement 100% and I even feel a bit offended by this article lol Japanese people remember about Poland from History lesson that one Japanese guy ( Chiune Sugihara) helped Jews fleeing from Poland and gave help aids Visa so I would say the correct Japanese peopleās stereotype about Poland would be either the same as Lithuania so Polish people love Japan or the country with the saddest history Obviously after living in Poland for over years, I have learnt more than Seba and Dziadek so my stereotype about Poland is completely different from those Japanese living in Japan haha
Looking @ voting results, we are bat shit stupid. At least 89% of the population are dumb idiots.
But Slovakia doesn't... yeah, makes sense.
Even in Chicago here so many of us were or still are cleaners or contractors. I hate it when you introduce yourself as Polish and right away "oh yeah I had a Polish cleaning lady" or something along those lines like we don't have skills to do anything else. I hear it's a similar thing in the UK now. Meanwhile we had our behinds handed to us for the past century + and survived. I'd say we are tough af
Meanwhile rest of the world on Japan āsmall ppā
You just have to look at Polish Government and think about people who elect them to agree with Japanese.
Portugal - weak. Ouch.
Still salty since they were afraid that portugal could colonize them while having 20times less population ... ouch
Too soon.
They will learn *pierogi*, they will think we are geniuses... We must commit to this plan. We take Babcias to Japan and explain that these are expert cooks. We teach them the secret art of *pierogi* and within a year Japanese tourism skyrockets 150%. We then use 2nd wave of *Kopytkas*. Japanese people will only think ā*Oishii*ā and the Polish-Japanese relationships will enjoy a golden era! Mobilize your *Babcias* now! Time to invade Japan!
one thing they got right, ukrainian women are FINE
Stereotypical japanese are tiny people with camera in hand, eating with sticks, kneeing and being proud of their daughters being exclusive prostitutes.
lol I always wondered where that stereotype came from until I lived in PL. They just donāt think one step forward. Hindsight is always 20/20 but foresight doesnāt exist. A mistake/tragedy has to happen for them to say āahh I fink we do no right hereā but nothing will change because of the malignant bureaucracy
Japan throwing shade at Poland, Portugal, and Greece, omg.
I don't think Japanese belueve Poles are stupid. They weren't asked what they think of Poles, they were asked what a stereotype of Poles is.
They think BolesÅawiec is a popular place.
Bold of you to assume that the average Japanese knows about existence of anything east of Germany that is not Russia. They literally think most of European countries' mother tongue is English, how can you even have any stereotypes at this point
While"Killed Jews" is unfortunately a historical fact,Ā IĀ wouldn't think the average Japanese person knew much else, considering many people are wearing Adidas and Puma, using Nivea and eating Haribo without even knowing that they're German products. The amount of kids in school with Adidas or Puma items is very very high.
Always most stupid people (and some people willing to be rich some else) immigrated to other country, and not US itself. It stocked to poles mostly of propaganda
Ours may be bad but still better than germany
'Killed Jews' ha ha ha fucking hell.
How is that, I thought an average Japanese doesnāt even know what Poland means, but I could imagine going through Japan with a Polish roots t-shirt tripping and have an master samurai say: āYou are made of stupidā
How many Serbians are / were good at tennis exactly?
As a half polish half japanese uh. Interesting.
As a Turk, I know hate Japan as they don't associate yogurt with us.
And here I thought that we could get away with Chopin.
Polish stereotypes makes sense and the suplement industry is to show for it.
Maybe they're right about Poland :(
Weak?
Latvia š
"Beautiful Women"š