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happened to me several times
how many Americans do you have ON you?
No one has ever quoted Dumb and Dumber?
maybe you mumble.
Never a racial slur?
I honestly didn’t care, I was just asking to be polite.
That said, my reaction would be, oh cool. or, that’s nice, or awesome
So true and so sad at the same time. I had many situations like those in my life.
-Where are you from?
-Spain
-Oh, really, I LOVE South America
-Where are you from?
-Spain, in Europe.
-Really? My boyfriend is european too but his accent sounds completely different!! (turned out he was french)
Personally, I am Asian and was born in the US. Never been out of the country in my life. Only speak English, Swedish, and a small bit of Spanish, but not a single word of Japanese. Yet even I have had people get in my face about being an immigrant, as well as harass me for things Japan did 2 generations before I was even born. I’ve never even been to Japan!
Some people are just ignorant. But it’s not as bad as many Europeans, Australians, and sometimes Canadians make it out to be.
Speaking as one of the few in the orange, it’s not just dumb americans: I met an Aussie when I was in Vienna during the World Cup a couple of years back who said that he had had a run-in with a Croatian who had mistaken his red Australia sweater for an Austrian team sweater and got in his face about it. Guess it works in reverse, too.
the decline of geography in the schools is a terrible thing.
I am doing my best!
“I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our children”
Courtesy of Wikipedia. I think you know what I’m talking about. (If you don’t, look up Caitlin Upton)
Three thumbs up
Three more
aaaand another three
Makes a good point, once you read over the loads of “uh.” Almost as bad as hearing someone speak that way.
Yop, this is happens to me all the time when I’m abroad…
…I guess I’d be one of the few Americans who falls into no place in this graph?
None of my reactions would be any of those.
I don’t fall into any of those either. . . well I suppose technically I’d fall into the orange, but not really. I think of the Sound of Music. . . . so that makes me a little odd, I suppose
Same here. Generally, my reaction would be “Oh, okay.” I mean, I know about the stuff in the green and orange sections, but I don’t really automatically think about it when somebody mentions Austria.
Well, I guess I did have a reaction like the one in the red section. Once. When I was 10.
Same here. Green and orange I know about, but when someone tells me their from some other country, I think, “Okay, cool.”
When I was a little kid, I always thought Austria was someone spelling Australia wrong, I will admit. But I learned not that long afterward that Austria was a country.
I just read through 13 comments before realizing that it says Austria and not Australia……
Me too. I think “Oh. Austria. That’s next to Germany and Switzerland and the Czech Republic…”
I award you an Internet.
I’m Austrian and some people over HERE don’t know that much about neighbouring countries. (Yes, with “u” in “neighbour”, just because I can.)
wow, i thought no1 knows that czech republic exist! THANK YOU (4 not saying it’s czechoslovakia ._.)!♥
and, yeah, czech republic last year won ice hockey world cup, so…
))))))♥ yay
The reaction of 100% of Australians is a look that says “I know how you feel”
Not to mention the land of Joseph Fritzl and Priklopil who both abducted girls and put them in their basement for 24 and 8 years.
So you should be a little alert, if the next thing the Austrian says is:…And would you like to see my basement?
Right. They don’t have people like that in the States…
like they don’t have A LOOOT of people like that in the states.
Like hell they do!! The United States, great country, but its a wacko factory. Not to mention that every wacko over there has a gun…
Fun country.
Fun and delicious.
sarcasm, buddy
i’m from austria and we make basement jokes all the time^^
my reaction was ” THE HIIIIIILLLLS ARE ALIIIIIIIIVE, with the sound of MUUUUUUUUUUUUSIC!”
At least I thought it was funny
I hope you got stabbed in the face.
To late. Someone already beat you to it 10 years ago.. thanks for bringing that back up… I appreciate it…
I hope you got neutered so that you can’t breed.
Better… keep going…
Ah, good old discrimination against Americans. Aren’t you just so clever! *head pat*
Agreed. It’s so stereotypical to assume that Americans are the ONLY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD who make ignorant slip ups. I’ve seen it happen all over the world.
FAIL at originality.
Except in other countries, we don’t have them running for Vice-Presidency… We keep our morons safely locked in our basements. Originality died in 1782.
If this goes horribly wrong, please do correct me.
I’ve heard that pretty much everything Americans are taught at school is American history and geography and such. Not much about Europe or Asia or other continents, unlike in Europe, where the teaching is well-rounded. At least here in Finland we had a whole year at a time based on America, Europe, Asia and Africa in geography, which gives us good basic knowledge about all continents.
I doubt the US has such ways if what I heard is based on truth, and makes it more likely for Americans to make mistakes as the one in the graph. As I said, do correct me if I’m wrong.
I’m an American high school student(10th grade), and yeah, most of what we’re taught is American history. There’s practically no geography. We’ve done one geography test this whole year, and that was on the locations of the states.
Keep in mind that I go to a poor school in a small town in Alabama; it might not be like this everywhere.
I’ve gone to very wealthy private and public schools, but it’s roughly the same in Indiana. We spent half a year on Europe and South America and a year on Asia, without learning anything.
Same here, and I went to public schools in Oklahoma up until 7th grade. And quite frankly, can I just say that American History is REALLY boring?
As a New Jerseyan that went to private and magnet schools, I must say the bulk of the history I’ve taken were American.
HOWEVER, I did have a year of ancient history (Sumer, Egypt, Greece, Rome), a year of pre-colonial African and pre-modern Chinese history, and this year is all Europe. I learned North and South American geography from Spanish classes (probably the only thing I remember from those XD ), European geography was drilled into me at some point (can’t remember…), and African geography accompanied the African history.
I feel so well-rounded right now. XD
And yes, American History = BORING AS HELL
Especially when all your classes stall at the Civil War :\
Quite frankly, I don’t think any of it is particularly interesting. Maybe events around the Boston Tea Party is interesting, but that’s about it for the interesting stuff.
European, Asian, African, and South American history on the other hand… SO MANY THINGS HAPPENED, and A LOT of it is so much more interesting than anything that ever happened here.
I go to a Louisiana public high school and we’re learning about the geography, religion, and the history of other countries and continents. We’ve talked about Canada, Europe, Southeast Asia, Russia, and Africa all year, but not much about America.
I dunno, maybe it’s just my teacher.
I also went to school in a small town in Alabama! Ah, nerdfest quelled for the moment.
I had a different experience. I learned an excessive amount of geography and world history from an early age. Thing is, most of this was through extra-curriculars and humanities workshop.
The normal, vanilla education that those around me received? Some potential for insight into the world, but not a whole lot of follow-through. The kids didn’t want it.
There are different classes, and what you learn depends on which one you take. At least at my school, we have U.S. History, European History, and World History.
And at which grade level would you have to be at to get these separate classes? Because as far as I saw it where I’m from, History is all lumped together in one class called World History, but you get predominately taught U.S. History, which is pretty boring to me.
In my high school, there was only one history class, and that was US history. There was a little bit of world history taught in the earlier grades, but really not much. I probably learned more about it in my foreign language classes than in the history classes themselves. Geography was even worse, as in high school it was pretty much limited to a couple of days in the Current Events class to try to make sure everybody knew where the news we were discussing was happening (and most people failed that part miserably anyway). There was a geography class in middle school, but there was a lot of it taken up with local geography and geology (ie plate tectonics). Most of what I know about history and geography outside of the US is from reading on my own.
In the 11th grade I spent an extensive year learning not only the geography of Europe and former European colonies but the history and the wars and the monarchs. . . I also went to a school that was very big on the foreign exchange program and my family hosted students. . . But I’ll say that most Americans don’t learn a lot about Europe except how it pertains to America and it is our fault that a lot of Americans are ignorant.
But on the note that I’ve hosted a lot of exchange students and that I’ve met a lot of Europeans I will say that most exchange students come over here thinking our lives are EXACTLY like the movies. They get really disappointed that we don’t look and act exactly like the Americans in the movies do. And I know for a fact that is not what every European thinks, so I’m not trying to stereotype in any way. I’m just pointing out the experience I’ve had. So, while European learning is more well rounded, it’s not perfect and misconceptions exist and make the same kind of misguided statement possible.
And on the note of the comment above that says we all have guns, that one’s not true. I personally don’t have a gun nor do I see a need for a gun. I know a lot of people that don’t have guns. That’s a stereotypical thing to say about the southern half of America. They all of have guns and are rednecks. That’s not true either.
My freshman year in high school, (mid-’90s) my history teacher insisted on geography tests for each unit. We were given sections of the map and a list of country names and had to match the outline to the name. I actually did pretty well. Now, *many* years later I may not remember the precise order of, say Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, but I can at least distinguish between the Baltic states and the Balkans. It also helps that I work in a bookstore. Re-organizing the travel section can get interesting– I’ve found Caribbean travel books in with the Oceania books, and Central American books in with the European.
You heard right Humm. My primary and secondary education offered very little of value as far as world history and geography. My high school history and geography teachers also coached school athletic teams, which is probably the only reason they became teachers in teh first place. I turned out to be reasonably knowledgeable about the rest of the world, but it was mainly as a result of attending extracurricular learning programs, reading a lot of news articles and books on my own, and bothering to be interested in the world outside of my town. University was better, but then, it’d have to be.
BTW – all you people who think history is boring – it’s not! You’re just not being taught well. I thought history was boring too, until I got college. Once you’ve got a teacher who actually knows what he’s talking about, and actually encourages students to engage with the subject and think it becomes really interesting. Plus, it makes it a lot easier to see why it’s relevant.
I never said history itself was boring. I find history to be VERY interesting, as long as it’s from some other place other than US history. I find US history to be ridiculously boring. I like learning about other countries/continents.
Why do you find US history boring?
Well, I agree that most of what we learn in public schools revolves around American history. But by the time I had graduated high school, I knew most of the provinces in China, had been assigned several pieces of post-colonial African literature to read, and had taken both world and Asian history courses. And I attended school in a town of about 15,000 in rural Texas.
So your mileage with generalizations will vary, of course.
Totally agreed, this is a simplified view of Americans. There might actually be some exceptions to this diagram!
There are, I’m one of them, and I still agree with the graph (at least in the area I’m from.) And actually, if the graphmaker didn’t think there were *any* exceptions, then the whole thing would be red, instead of just most of it.
I would expect a tad more Schwartzenegger, but if you think you have it bad, I’m a German. The first response everyone has is Nazi. I’m considering becoming Jewish just so that people will stop calling me a Nazi!
Now that really sucks.
They don’t know the laws against Nazi-related stuff are incredibly strict over here (Austria and Germany). Run around wearing a small swastika and you’ll get arrested for it, no joke. Whereas in America, you can openly state that you belong to a Nazi organization. So who’s the Nazi nation now? (j/k)
“So who’s the Nazi nation now?”
Well… censorship is generally a Fascist standby… Free speech is nice. We’ve do a pretty good job protecting it here in the ‘States (unless you want to show an image of Mohammed- in that case you’re out of luck. Just ask the creators of South Park). >_>
I know people always make fun of Americans for a lack of geographical knowledge, but I think it’s exaggerated. Certainly we’ve got plenty of morons here, but doesn’t everywhere? I don’t personally know anybody who doesn’t know the difference between Austria and Australia… *shrugs*
If you are geologically ignorant, just take a geography class and pay more attention. Or at least put up a map of the world in your house. You might learn something.
Until then, lets hold off on the name calling.
Perhaps Pliny should put a rock on his wall, rather than a map?
Ah, yes, taking a GEOGRAPHY class will totally help if you want to know about GEOLOGY. Those rocks are the same as capitals, yup.
Or unless you want to say a naughty word on television
to be honest, the US isn’t a very good example of a lack of cencorship.
Oh, and unless you want to say you’re gay and you’re in the army.
Do we really think that there is a nation more fascist than the United States? I don’t think that fact even deserves a debate.
There are two Americas: the one shown in Hollywood movies and the real one. I happen to know the second one better than the first one and I gotta tell you, that America is not pretty.
This country is on its way to kill itself. I wouldn’t give it more than 50 years.
This just reminds me of a quote in an Epica song, which I do believe is a Goethe quote.
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who believe that they are free.”
EVERY time I listen to that song, the US pops into my mind. We aren’t a very free country in my honest opinion, even though most of us seem to believe we are.
50 years? So much? Damn. :S
Meant 5,0 years. My bad.
Come on, all countries have their hardships. I’ve lived in America for most of my life and it’s a pretty nice place. Sure, we’ve made mistakes in the past couple years, but every country does. I’m sick of all this “America hating”, it’s nothing more than that lame joke the most annoying person in your class keeps repeating.
Plus, I’ve learned tons of history about places other than America. I think it depends on the school and the teacher, though.
I’ve heard you can’t even wear a KISS rock band T-shirt over there, and when KISS plays in Europe, they have to change their logo.
Actually, you CAN wear a KISS t-shirt, but it has to be modified. That is because the KISS logo is made in runics font, and 2 runic “S” may seem to be an allusion to the Schutstaffel (S.S.). So, because they don’t want any whacko saying that there’s a subliminal message on their logo, they change the “S” runics to reverted “Z”s. Simple and necessary.
Offtopic, but anyways…
I once saw a guy in the news who was a practicing jew…and a nazi. He just thought that the whole jewhunt thing was a kind of mistake from the nazis, an error in their ways, but they were still good.
Luckily, all my country is really known for is cheese, windmills and wooden shoes (Netherlands). That is, if they know the country at all, it being so small.
Well, then you’ve never encountered the people that seem to think that we’re high on drugs 24/7, always go to brothels and euthanize our elders etc… Really, they exist… *sigh*
If by “cheese, windmills and wooden shoes” you actually mean marijuana, i have to agree
Greetings from Slovenia (aka Slovakia for most of the world)
Aw, totally forgot Slovenia and Slovakia… my condolence. When panicking (as in “Elbi, quick, where is…”, not that it happens that often), I still can only remember who is who by thinking of the former Czechoslovakia, then reducing it by Czech Republic. I’m really sorry :/
*is an Austrian*
Nevermind, if you were Spanish, they would say you killed all the indians in South America. If you were Mongolian, they’d call you Gengis Khan. And the list goes.
In your place, I wouldn’t care about ir. It’s not your fault that the nazis exist, so let people say whatever they want. It just proves theyr ignorance.
it sounds like you want to be compared to GAS for some reason =P
Wolfgang Voigt?
I would say, “Cool, the land of Falco!”
that joke was already used in dumb & dumber
Except in Dumb & Dumber it was actually funny: “Well in that case, put another shrimp on the barbie!”
except in Oz they’re called prawns, but never mind.
Well, considering the point of the joke was that they’re clueless about other countries, I think it makes more sense for them to use the wrong word.
This graph is propbably accurate.
I recall a simular situation a few years ago. I was at some restuarant with a girl and her slightly younger and umm ignorant sister. Our waiter was obviously from the middle east. As he’s taking our order the younger sister asks where he is from, he asks her to guess, she says. . .france, and I immediatly kicked her in the shin, she yelled, but was her own fault. I take a stab in the dark and say Saudi Arabia, and was right. And I’m from northeast Arkansas and I still got that right.
Yeah obvious spelling fails on my part up there. Just woke up.
She might have said it out of ignorance, but fyi, there are a lot of French people of arabic origins. Most of them come from North Africa, but some of the DO look middle eastern and yet they are French…
Ah you are right, but I know she didn’t know that. I somehow forgot Europes ever increasing arabic population.
Hmm, I wonder if that was the case with my old chemistry professor, then (he looked Middle Eastern, had an Italian-sounding last name and spoke with a French accent. I never did get the nerve to ask him where he was from.)
The most interesting thing about The Sound of Music is that most Austrians don’t know that story at all.
I’m Austrian and I love that movie.
Not true.
If my English teacher hadn’t shown us The Sound of Music in my final year at school, I wouldn’t have known anything about the movie.
I live in Austria and haven’t heared of the movie at all. Four years ago our english teacher (from Ireland) told us about it at the university. I saw it there and didn’t even like it.
Now i live in Salzburg and there are ad campaigns for the musical everywhere, because tourists seem to love it ;(
I laughed out loud at this one, mainly because at first I misread “Austrian” as “Australian”.
Even though I’ve been to Wal-Mart and I’ve seen Miss Teen South Carolina, Kellie Pickler on “Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?”, and George W. Bush, I still have a tough time believing that there could be people that dumb. The real sad thing is they procreate like rabbits! It’s like the lower your IQ the more fertile you are.
That is the problem. Waves of babies, I’m getting tired of hearing “god I’m soo stressed out! and my life sucks!” And me thinking well you’re 22 and have 3 kids and no job and two deadbeat dads and live in an old trailer, thats probably why you feel that way, poof life choices.
I know, I swear I know more geography than the average famous person.
Freud was German born in Pribor, Moravia, nowadays the Czech Republic.
which was, back then, austria
Yes, but he was an Austrian national- Austria included Moravia at the time. He is most definitely considered Austrian and not Czech.
Well, in fact six years before Freud was born Moravia got a semi-autonomous status (so-called “a fully independent crown-land Margraviate of Moravia”) as a part of the Austrian Empire (as well as for example the Czech and Hungarian kingdoms and many other parts of the land). But finaly I agree with you, Freud was Austrian (or German, because in these days the German-speaking people in former Lands of the Bohemian Crown were called Germans, not Austrians) and maybe just because he had lived in Vienna since he was three.
Austria is also the home of the Glock pistol. Let’s not forget that.
I like the way you think.
Aw… no one mentioned Christoph Waltz.
lol this is so ironic i just guided an austrian student around my school today..
You think you’ve got it bad? Ten years ago if an English-speaking person asked me where I’m from, I just said “Hungary”. Now I tend to say “Hungary. If you make any puns, I’ll break your goddamn hand”.
But I’m Hungary for puns!
Then come to Europe. We have the world biggest Turkey over here.
I haven’t made or heard a Hungary pun since I was a little kid, if that matters to you at all.
I wouldn’t make fun of someone’s country, that’s just idiotic and immature. Besides, who finds puns like that funny above the age of 10? Reminds me of someone I met over the internet a few weeks ago that insisted New Zealand was a part of Australia.
Oh no Bro. Australia is actually a part of NZ, eh.
Over here it’s known as ‘The West Island’.
I would think a large portion of the graph would be Terminator quotes/other Arnold Schwarzenegger references. That’s the first thing that comes to my mind when I think of Austria.
Like “I’ve lived in this country for twenty years and I still can’t speak understandable English”?
That’s not a slam on Austrians, btw, Just Arnold. I know Austrians who speak perfectly good English.
I’ve read somewhere that Schwarzenegger did take classes to learn to pronounce English without an Austrian accent, but then discovered he could get more roles in movies if he spoke with an accent.
I’d be in the orange slice, but then I’m from Down Under, so I guess that doesn’t count
THIS STATEMENT IS SO TRUE !!
it reminds me of the picture that says “There are no kangaroo’s in Austria”.
The same happens to me with Switzerland vs. Sweden or Swaziland… ^^
I know exactly what you mean.
“Where are you from?”
“Austria.”
“You know Hitler was from Austria”
“Yeah =_=… so was Mozart.”
Sooooooo true!
A guy from Japan:
“Hi, where are you from?”
Me: “Austria”
He: “Ahhh, hello neighbour”
Me: “No, not excactly neighbours”
He: “Yeah, I know… there is the ocean between us, but …”
Me: “A U S T R I A, Europe… the ocean, China, the middle east…”
Lol, sounds familiar… I had the following conversation in Belgium:
Guy: “Hi, where are you from?”
Me: “Austria”
Guy: “Wow, that’s far…”
Me: “Well… not too bad, a couple of hours by plane”
Guy: “REALLY??! How is that possible? It’s halfway across the world!”
Me: “AUSTRIA, next to Germany”
Guy: “…Oh.”
That’s a fast plane
Did you notice he said he was in Belgium?
So…more like down-the-street neighbors, then.
My reaction:
“Oh, you’re the guys with the Hapsburgs. Your government was a wreck in the early 20th century. Granted you didn’t exactly cause everything that caused the war, but you helped the process along a bit.”
And this is what I know about Austria. Also, they were the biggest force in keeping the HRE the HRE until 1871 when Bismarck came and kicked everyone’s @$$es. And this is what I know about Austria. Not… the most flattering. Oh but you guys had Maria Theresa! Not too shabby!
(I should shut up about my puny historical knowledge about the country.)
The HRE was disolved in 1806, the Austrians got their asses kicked in 1866. At least get your facts strait when you try to be mr smarty-pants
my reaction would be “I’ve always wanted to go to Vienna!” Also “I love you spell it Wien!”
That reminds me of this one scene from Dumb and Dumber where he tries to hit on this Austrian chick.
I haven’t seen it in forever, someone please find it for me lol
There are dumb people everywhere, and sure, I don’t know how the USA works, and how really the people live there, since there are those damn movies, and I hear very few news from there.
But I sure heard about the political campaing, and Obama, I don’t really care, but the Internet is stuffed with it anyway. But what I’ve heard, what I’ve seen? Peoples hate, peoples love, but all what came this far was: Health care, taxes and all those dumb stuff, about Obama, and it actually made me thought that, maybe, and I say just maybe, a political campaing in America mostly cantains shows, events, like the politican dancing, and another news like politican taking a stuff, or politican drink beer, or politican dancing polka or whatever. It’s like “Look at me! I’m cool! Vote on me!” And the REAL politics comes after.
So if it’s true, and I’m absolutely not sure, but it could be, then this means, that there is a real lot of dumb people. Because politics are politics, not a “fun party”. It’s not everyone of course, should be a lot of intelligent people, but it doesn’t matter if the dumber are the loudest!
And you know what made me mad? I’ve seen a picture about some “people” holding up “God hates america” and some kind of “Thank God for the dead soldiers” tables.
And it pissed me off. I’m not american, but it still made me mad.
I mean, if I would met some dumb asses like that there, I would rip their head off. Even if it’s bullstuff to go on war for oil, you just don’t do something like that. It’s rude, it’s stupid, and it’s ignorant.
And this is it, ignorance. Hell, maybe ppl. should understand each other, before some serious consequence kickes in!
I’m pretty sure the “God hates America” and “Thank God for dead soldiers” are both Westboro Church picket signs.
And EVERYONE hates the Westboro Church. Everybody. I’ve never once seen someone say they actually liked them.
And that’s not much of a surprise, considering they’re all a bunch of assholes. The “Thank God for dead soldiers” picket signs are used to picket FUNERALS of dead soldiers. Which is pretty damn asshole-ish behavior. What’s even worse is that they’re doing it under the law, so you can’t do anything to keep them from doing it.
Actually, I think they got sued for doing that shit at one of those funerals. If I remember correctly, they got sued for $5 million, couldn’t pay it, got it lowered, couldn’t pay it, got it lowered again, couldn’t pay it, et cetera.
The Westboro Church assholes tried to defend it with the old ‘freedom of speech!’ act, of course…. If that’s ‘freedom of speech’, they shouldn’t have problems with me holding a sign that says ‘Too Bad You Guys Weren’t Aborted!’ in front of their church.
I’d happily join you in your campaign, bring my “Damn, you guys are still alive!” sign.
The Westboro Baptist church is pretty much the preacher and his family, nobody else.
As for Geography/History all you need to know about Europe and American is “Europe starts wars America ends them*”
*Iraq invasion not included
(total sarcasm and stereotype, but more often true then not)
I sympathise.
Conversation last year at an airport:
American Lady: So where are you from?
Me: Scotland.
American Lady: Oh you don’t sound English.
Me: Er, not I’m from Scotland.
American Lady: Ohhh, like Braveheart.
Me (cringing because I hate that film): Yeah.
American Lady: I thought you guys all wore those skirt things?
Me: No.
*sigh*
:O But who doesn’t love kilts?
*shrug* My first thought was mmmmm, sachertorte.
That’s what I get for being a gluttonous American, eh?
It happened in the reverse to one of my teachers traveling in Europe though. After she said she’s Australian everyone started talking to her in German until she said “KANGAROO!”
orly?
I usually get the Hitler response.
Austria… that’s like South Germany right? didn’t you get reunified when the East and West did or do you just have to be all difficult?
*raises hand* ….green.
I’m from Australia and I make that mistake sometimes. XD
“I’m from Austria”
The first thing I thought was “Oh the land down under, cool”
austria eh? LETS PUT ANOTHER SHRRRIMP ON THE BARBIE!!! ……………………..lets not.
Mozart was German!!!
You’re kidding, right?
Am I the only one who is sick of all the anti-American stereotypes that plague the Cheezburger network?
Yes. We Americans should get a good laugh at ourselves once in a while. Why take everything so seriously?
Get a similar response when telling English that you’re from Australia – ‘Isn’t that near Germany? You speak very good English’. Seriously?! You guys frickin’ colonized us!
Hahaha…. ha… oh, actually as an American, this makes me feel a little sad. Basic geography, guys.
At least you’re not from Colombia (most americans call us ColUmbia ¬¬)
And they believe we ALL sell drugs. And is REALLY hard to get a visa to go to another country… T_T
Me: “Hi! I’m from Colombia, South America”
Guy: “Oh Columbia! do you sell marijuana and cocaine!!!”
Me: “Eh no, I’m an artist and I do believe that my country…”
Guy: “Oh yeah shakira Is from ColUmbia!!!, she’s hot!!!”
Me: ¬¬
At first I was going to say, “Hey! You copied my graph!” because I have one just like it that I recently made. But then I saw that you have 2700 votes, so yours has probably been around a lot longer than mine. I guess it’s just a coincidence that we chose to graph about the same funny thing! I had also noticed that people confuse “Austria” with “Australia”.
bist du wkl aus österreich? ^^
my immediate thought would be “SOUND OF MUSIC!!!11! XD”
this would be immediately followed with singing
My great grandparents were from Slovenia, but whenever I tried to tell people that, they thought I said Trannsylvania. So for a year, everybody thought I was related to Dr.acula
Darn I made i made a typing mistake AGAIN. I have huge fingers.
Huge fingers, you say?
I’ll say it for those who haven’t:
YOUR VITAL REGIONS WERE SEIZED AND CONQUERED!!
Lmfao ..oh God
F**king, Austria..
Ich komme aus Oesstereich…
jk just taking level 1 german
Really it happens very often …. I am from Venezuela and I live in Australia, I met a girl who went to Switzerland, and she thought there were many hospitals there, she did not realize it was the Swiss flag …