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Aww. I love the way that the UK is ‘Mummy’.
It should be tea and or queueing.
Stephen Fry talking about the weather while queuing up to buy crumpets in Marks and Spencer. Crumpets that will later be eaten with a nice cup of tea, obviously.
it doesn’t matter it is getting converted to buffer zone anyway
Wait, what’s in the Resident Evil zone?
And why is Serbia there?
Map invalid.
It is Europe ACCORDING to Americans
the actress who plays Alice (the main character in the RE movies) is from Serbia
She’s Ukranian, which in the map falls under “buffer zone”, though I would say, she does have a good ‘buffer zone’.
Actually Ukraine is under “Commies”
Akshuly, she’s of Serb-Ukranian descent. Her mom is Ukranian, and her dad is a Serb.
Yeah, Milla Jovovich is Ukrainian.
So, can anyone explain why is Serbia here?
The only thing I can think of is the Bosnian War, Kosovo War, mass rape and genocide in the area. Which kind of resembles the behaviour of zombies who also kill a lot of innocent civillians. They should exclude Slovenia though, cause it only has gone to war for 12 days.
Maybe it’s that, but they should have made it clearer.
Btw, I’m from Serbia, that’s why I’m wondering.
Funny how that works, right? A nation over a thousand years old, and the only thing they get known for is a dictator that unwillingly forced a whole nation to listen to him, while he went to war with mostly inoocents, as well as the guilty party?
*stares* either u r from Slovenia or a war nerd to know this fact. both pretty cool *thumbs up*
Her mother was Ukranian, her father was in fact Serbian (Where she gets her good looks from), but he never taught her Serbian and she got out of touch with the homeland
Partizan Beograd!
Crna Gora!
Woop!
“Are you my mummy?”
I’m never looking at a gas mask the same way ever agian after that.
. . . then I suppose it isn’t strange to you at all that I freaked out at that. *shudders* Gas Mask Zombies . . . creepier than a good deal of the other villains
Next up: stereotyping countries that stereotype countries- is it really as convoluted and useless as it sounds?
You are useless.
Agreed.
I second that. In fact I third it.
I fourth it. Useless, you are.
hey, it’s good to finally get a fairly accurate map!
Accurate? This map is so f**king inaccurate for an american.
You see the “socialist union”? It’s supposed to say “vikings” intsead. Also, “dirty porn should say “nazis”
lol, you completely read my mind.
actually iceland should say vikings rather
Why?
Iceland didn’t really have vikings. Not really. Well, they did, but those were vikings from Norway, Sweden and Denmark who moved to Iceland to settle. That is why the Icelandic language they have is so similar to Old Norse. Since Iceland is more isolated than the Scandinavians, their language has evolved differently, and not much.
Anyway…
Or dirty Nazi porn
Seriously. And where the hell is The Pirate Bay?!
I am pretty sure that ‘dirty porn’ is reffering to the netherlands, where prostitution is legal. should say ‘nazis’ there, somewhere, though.
why is scandinavia not labelled vikings?
prostitution is a rendition of service in many european countries but the netherlands have quite many stereotypical aspects to pick from, like windmills, tulips, wooden shoes, cheese, the worlds most awesome mayonnaise called “frites sauce” and of course legal pot.
even though i might have felt offended, i would have expected to get labeled “nazi”, but dirty porn is more appropriate these days
I agree with the “vikings” part, but NOT WITH THE NAZI PART!! I am german, and we got over with the nazi crap, we are deeply offended if someone calls us nazis, it is more of “Dirty Porn” because germans are the most perverted people in europe, and we make excellent porn!
Sorry, but if we’re going by popular stereotypes/what people immediately think of when they hear the word “Germany”, “Nazis” is probably more accurate than “Dirty Porn”. I’m not saying it’s right, and you have every right to be offended, but considering how much people still go on about World War II around here, it’s probably the first thing most people think of, so for people who don’t bother to think beyond the first thing, that’s what you’ll get stuck with.
Basically, I’m stoked we’re mentioned at all, even if it’s only as “Apfelkuchen” (Shouldn’t that be “Strudel”?)
How about Schigebiet?
yep,i’m always surprised myself.
go austria!
Apfelstrudel FTW!
Due to our congenital inferiority complex which we Austrians have, i was surprised our country is even on the map =)
wow, I thought I was the only one suffering from that. Everytime I see a map I’m like “Oh please please let Austria be on it too!!”
Don’t worry, america probably won’t ever forget austria, it is after all where the Terminator is from.
shouldnt austria say: Germany’s little brother?
Apfelstrudel fur die Gewinnen!
Austria should be labeled “Sound Of Music.”
exactly!
Yes!
I thought so too! Americans watch that like it’s an Austrian documentary.
Austria should be, “Terminator Country”. Although most Americans mistake Austria for Australia so, “all right, mate? What are the ‘roos like down under?”, would also be appropriate.
Lol, yeah, cuz Schwarzenegger is commonly thought to be from Down Unda’.
hes austrian
But he was Conan….isn’t that a viking? I’m so confused. Anuld…..save us!
Conan was a barbarian.
No, it should be kangaroos
Pr maybe “Falco lives here”.
*Or
or maybe “lived” since he’s been dead for years
Both works, I guess. How about the Schnitzel or Sachertorte?
Well, I live in the Thanksgiving meal, we are all food!
hahahaha @ Mexico, yeah I’ve met americans like that hahaha
SPAIN = MEXICO
LOL
¡MUCHAS GRACIAS AMIGOS!
Me gusta
…Damn commies…
Well, at least we aren’t “Nazi” as usual..
yea, that’s what i thought. but why are we ”dirty porn”??? XD (i think we are, right? maybe i’m just too tired… 11pm lol)
Maybe you should drive to München and ask John Thompson that question…
huh? ô_o
It’s because German porn is dirty…
uh… so is any other porn?!?!?! o_O
Well it’s unusually dirty, you know, scat.
Yeah, when we think German porn, we usually think human excrement.
Aren’t stereotypes grand?
Love this map. XD
geman actors look like meth hoes
Well It’s more a 70s stereotypy.
Let’s not forget Human Centipede was set in Germany. If that ever happens to me I better be ‘A’.
That movie sickens me, in fact I’ve got to go throw up right now just from reading your commemt…
Yes, but if it says “Commies” for the former U.S.S.R., then it MUST say “Nazis” for Germany… Just saying.
Also, Luxembourg is present and Denmark is in the correct geographical location. There must be very few Americans alive with this detailed an image of Europe in their mind.
Because the Euros are so great at geography? Lulz, dumb Americans! Lulz.
nice…seen it before though
Yes we smell. Actually, that’s how I see Europe. Except for Scandinavia, that I’d call “Soft Pr0n”.
Oh wait, Andorra is part of the Commies and Luxemburg is part of the Resident Evil ? I don’t understand.
Just what I thought.
are you some kind of moron? andorra is part of france according to this map and luxembourg is the green one to the north of france
What? I’m doomed because I’m Dutch?
Well, at least were not called smelly people XD
We might be smelly people, but everyone comes to see our smelly country :p
And smoke our smelly weed.
And “visit” our smelly red-light district.
It’s says Sodom.
Whores+Drugs+Gaysex=Damnation…
So… Pretty much!
Lolwut? didnt know it said doomed… the pixels are too big… Whatever i think we’re doomed because we’re under sea level (well most of us) and with the next 5 meters of sea level rise half the country would be flooded.
Yay!
but then again the americans probably won’t know that… LOL
Something tells me most Americans wouldn’t know that democracy originated in Greece or that socialism is widespread in Scandinavia.
I think all the pretty columns on our government buildings might give at least some of us a clue about the first one, but yeah, if this were truly a map of an ignorant American’s (that’s not fully redundant) perception of Europe, Scandinavia probably wouldn’t even be ON it.
No, Scandinavia would be on it but it’d be just labeled VIKINGS.
Like it should be in the case of THIS map.
Dude… Democracy didn’t originate in the US
it originated in Ancient Greece about 3200 years ago
That’s the point, idiot. The columns on our (US) capital buildings are reminiscent of Greece, where democracy originated. This is intentional tribute.
You’re right. Also, us 1% of smart Americans thank you for saying “most” and not “all.”
More like 50 percent, it’s just most smart people don’t come to graphjam.
What Is Taught In High School, An Unscientific Overview:
Africa: Egypt, Slaves
Asia: Pearl Harbor, Nuclear Test Site, China Is Big, Silk Road*
South America: Mayans, Aztecs
Australia: Prison
Canada: Wait – They Have History?
Eastern Europe: Don’t Invade Russia In The Winter
Western Europe: Center Of Everything Civilized
— Greece: Democracy, Socrates, Plato (Pludo? Plateau? Pilate? Whatev), Lots Of Funny Gods
— Italy: Roman Empire, Catholics, Lots Of Plagiarized Gods
— Germany: Nazis
— Austria: Never Assassinate Arch Duke Ferdinand
— France: Total cowards
— Britain: Everything Else & All The Important Bits (Until America)
I would say that of all the world history that Americans are taught, most of it is centered on Western Europe, and within that division we learn mostly about the history of Greece, Italy, and Britain. While I do think that many students lack a greater knowledge of world history (with the curriculum as much to blame as some students) if asked what they know about Greece, I would guess that the majority would be able to tell you it was the father of democracy. In fact, we often “soften” a lot of problems with the Athens and other Greek city-states because we choice to stress the importance of democracy.**
* Optional
** May not apply to women, foreigners, indentured servants/slaves, undesirable, freed slaves, and those who have not completed military training. And Robertius. Seriously, that guy was just a jerk.
Americans aren’t the worst though, in Scotland unless your parents are forking out a fortune for your education, you don’t get taught ANY world history.
I apologise, America, not Americans, there’s a lot of good sound Americans despite what the media portrays.
HAhaha XD I actually live in Canada and even if finished highschool, I can tell u that I remember NOTHING about the Canadian Story it’s SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO boring!
Didn’t Canada decide they liked being French instead of English and drew a big line in the dirt? lol
You must have had a better school district than me. Every single world history class I took followed the same path. We started with Egypt, went on to Greece and Rome, then the Middle Ages and Feudalism. We spent a week learning about the Magna Carta, then went straight to the discovery of the Americas, the revolutionary war, the civil war, and then world wars 1 and 2. As far as my high school was concerned, the only non-European countries are Egypt, Japan, and the US. Egypt stopped existing about 2 thousand years ago, Japan didn’t exist until 1941, and nothing worth mentioning happened in Europe between the Revolutionary War and WW1.
In America, we learn US history in nearly every grade, only to remember none of it and then most of us decide to take US History in college to get our history requirement out of the way.
you have a history? what is it we defeated the redcoats hurra lets eat a cheeseburger?
Yeah, because America has not pioneered basically every significant scientific advancement of the past century. Not to mention our contributions to literature. I’m from Mississippi (considered amongst the dumbest states in the Union) and I can name four famous writers. Faulkner (Nobel Prize), Welty (Pulitzer), Williams (Pulitzer), John Grisham (fiction, but still exciting). I am not dogging Europe, I’m not xenophobic, but this, “America is stupid,” nonsense is unfounded.
TL;DR
Note the fact that they don’t teach geography well: Azteca and Mayans were on Mexico and Central America. The ONLY thing worth “mentioning” on South America is: Incas and Amazon tribes.
*Aztecs
I would think the Greek stereotype is “300″ or “THIS. IS. SPARTAAA!!!” and Scandinavia, like everyone else said, would be “Vikings”.
I’m surprised Sweeden isn’t “IKEA”
Do not mock the seeds. the sweeds will not be trifled with.
trifle nom nom nom
its swedes
AWWWWWWWW YYYYEEEEEAAAAAAA im a quarter Swedish does that count??? For the rest i’m dutch which is pretty awesome
I’m surprised Finnland isn’t “cellphones”
If you’re talking about Nokia, the dumber Americans more than likely think that’s Japanese.
I’m surrized there’s no other Hetalia fans commenting on this.
And that there isn’t any DENFIN, FRUK, and—OMFG THEY FORGOT LICHTENSTEIN!!! so much for one of my Adorable few Hetero pairings.
I’m a Hetalia fan, but I totally don’t believe the stereotypical crap Japan made up about the countries.
Buffer Zone….that’s like, totally not cool.
Oh, and ponies for you if you get this.
POLANDDDD!!!!!!! 8DD PINK ponies??
@Prussia – And it’s spelled Liechtenstein. O’ awesome one. (PS – I love Gilbird~)
Well…munching on my hamburger doing my World History homework…map of the world.
WHAT IS THIS “EUROPE”? I think they misspelled it. It should be America – DUH. ^^
(I don’t actually think like this…8D WORLD HISTORY, YAY!)
What about ABBA or the Swedish Chef?
LOL!
Or Switzerland
From http://bigthink.com/ideas/24357 ?
Good find. Looking at the other maps, it doesn’t even look like the US got the worst of it. (Although there is the lower right corner of the “composite” map.)
NO YOUTUBE LAND!
“Selfish Fisherman Land”.. WIN!
I laughed out loud at the “Evil Federated Empire of Europe.”
Darn, thought I could get here in time to say “inb4 flame war”
You would have had to post pretty much 5 seconds BEFORE this was posted to get that.
well…this is what it looks like over there. right? Right?! RIGHT!?!
Amazing how America became the richest, most powerful country in the history of civilization, walked on the moon, sent space probes out of the solar system, cured diseases, created drugs that have saved millions of people’s lives in third world countries, liberated more people from oppressive regimes than all other countries combined, and yet are still just a bunch of ignorant, provincial hicks.
i hate to tell you this, but american people, (at least a good chunk) aren’t that stupid. i do know people who are this ignorant, though.
(psst.. I’m pretty sure the last part is sarcastic)
Anyway, there is a goodly percentage of Americans that are pretty ignorant – but that’s true of every country. What’s different about America is the way we handle them. The other countries allow their stupid people to work at menial jobs that are suited to their capacities – China even keeps them out of school after fifth grade and allows them to go start being useful on farms, which is the reason their test scores are so high. In America, on the other hand, we’ve created several TV stations JUST for showing off our stupid people, and then there’s the internet… That’s the difference.
Wow man, I couldn’t have explained that any better myself. We actually seem to idolize our stupid people in this country. With all of our stupid people readily identifiable in the media, we earn ourselves a nation-wide reputation of being stupid. But that’s fine by me, without stupid people I wouldn’t be able to get my daily laugh from FailBlog.
Unfortunately, populism has long been used in American politics, putting great stress on the us verses them mindset that enjoy holding up the educated as an elitist group with no regards for the “us”. Right now we see it in the messages of more conservative candidates who seem to be constantly drawing the line between “real” Americans and the liberal, east coast elites but both parties have relied on this type of slander through out our history. The message is one of anti-intellectualism, the attempt to make politicians seem more in touch with voters despite the huge amount of money they are pulling in. Unfortunately, what it means is that intellectuals are painted are unAmerican and, in a more subtle way, it holds up ignorance as a GOOD quality, something that makes a person more “real”.
If you are constantly told by politicians and the media that the universities will politically brain wash you, that good Americans work blue collar jobs and don’t need to know anything about the world outside of their own little plot of land is it really your fault for internalizing such anti-intellectualism attitudes? I really don’t think it is, not entirely.
You must live in the U.S. as I do because you just described the political situation very accurately. You can find good accurate or at least deep and interesting news on the U.S. via MSNBC sometimes, radio stations like AM1090 in Seattle, and other outlest.
Also what your top 5% did does not help the rest
To be fair, the originial project included a number of maps, most of them showing the view Europeans have of each other.
The thing that makes you look like an ignorant, provincial hick is the totally overblown perception you have of the US contribution to science (which is big, but not as big as you think). One example: the people who built the US space program didn’t smell too good, according to this map.
Uh…so the French built the US space program? Try up and bit and to the right.
You Yanks have rural Kentucky.
’nuff said.
We all came from Europe! And the native Americans of course, but mostly from somewhere else.
The U.S has the greatest debt in the world.
No it doesn’t.
It actually started out as Europeans’ stereotypes of other European countries. They’re great, check them all out.
My favorites: “Meh country” and “No YouTube land.
No wait, I think it started out as Russians’ stereotypes of Europe.
I can’t read Belgium, Austria, the Netherlands or Luxembourg
“I personally believe…that most U.S. Americans are unable to do so…because some people… uh, out there in our nation don’t have maps and I believe that our education like, such as South Africa and uh, the Iraq, everywhere and such as, I believe… that they should, our education over here, in the U.S. should help the U.S. or, 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.”
*facepalm* Didn’t we drop kick her into the pit of shame after that?
Belgium: Chocolates
Austria: Apfelkuchen
the Netherlands: Sodom (from Sodom & Gomorrah)
Luxembourg is empty.
oh it’s chocolate; Belgium, Some overly complex world; Austria, and Sodom for the Nederlands
It’s Apfelkuchen in Austria! =D (Apple Pie ^-^)
Looks about right. Dang commies.
holland isnt POT!
or something?
“Sodom” was a biblical city destroyed by God for all its vices (ie prostitution).
Therefore:
Sodom►Vices►Pot►Netherlands
So it was a pot reference after all.
and whores and buttsecks!
Heh, I’m from Sweden and this is pretty much how I view Europe. So to me it’s only mildly amusing, as it’s mostly just true.
Holland is Sodom ^^
and i live in sodom
Even better, I live in its capital! The center of evil in this universe!
And i live in its econonical centre!! Take THAT, Amsterdam!
And I live in Den Bosch, which really doesn’t matter but I felt like saying it!
wtf early morning?????
Honestly though, must the whole world believe America is stupid? We all got over that whole “Russians are bastards” thing, and the whole “The Brits are snooty” thing. We even got over the whole “China kills people with tanks” thing. We’re friends now. We forgave Japan for bombing Pearl Harbor, and we give money to Africa like it’s going out of style. Must the idiot that submitted this continue to play up cultural stereotypes? *sigh* I’m gonna go look at some funny Engrish now. Silly Chinamen….
Exactly.
Sorry, I mean, silly Americanmen
“Honestly though, must the whole world believe America is stupid?”
You elected Bush. Twice.
TV is right (no, not that TV), but amanda makes a strong point. twice over.
FTW (and I’m American)
And then we elected Obama. Get over yourself; other countries piss, b*tch, and moan about their elected officials, too. As far as oversaturation of U.S. events in international media: stop paying for it if you don’t like it.
Yet Germany allowed a man to kill 6 million people and start a world war.
looking at the conditions in Germany after the WWI; ppl didn’t have work, money and food; Hitler promised them all of this; ergo, they choose him for their leader. He fulfilled the promise.
We also elected Obama *shivers*
Forgave. Pffrt. You forgave them by nuking two hundred thousand people.
Didn’t know that “threw a couple of nukes” was American’s way to forgive. Not a nice one, actually. Maybe you should buy some sense of humor, I’d be glad to help in a “Europe according to Spain” (sorry, I meant Mexico)
It’s not American citizens, it’s the hardcore republicans and the horrably biased news networks. Also, it’s the tendancy of a large part of American population to just believe and act on what the media tells them. Ex: Fox news said that universal health care was gonna let Obama kill your granmothers, then Fox news and a legion of misinformed citzens protested it untill Obama abandoned it. And this happens for most of his policies. The second the majority of your population learns to critically think is the second I will stop making fun of America.
Fox is the only republican news program. EVERYTHING else is liberal
is “liberal” used to oppose “republican” like the democratic party or do you mean its literal meaning “free” (from any political agenda, that is)?
it seems to me that most u.s. news networks use their influence to form the public opinion in favour of their preferred political party, instead of neutrally reporting current events.
You don’t believe stereotypes? We don’t either. Yay! Kind of double standards if you say that Americans don’t think all that about other countries (some still do, as I’ve seen firsthand) but that we all think Americans are stupid. Only stupid people do. =_=
The Republic of Ireland looks like it is “St. Patrick”.
Americans at least get credit for knowing the difference between The Republic of Ireland and The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
well they should know the difference since they funded the IRA for so long.
HEY-OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
lolz
HA! This is awesome. Especially Spain, Portugal and England. I lol’d
Hurrr
LOL stereotypes! So funny!
Englishmen have bad teeth and drink tea all day!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Now what if I made a graph about that?
I’m sure they couldn’t care less.
Yes, thats COULDN’T care less.
See, our one makes sense.
I use “Couldn’t care less” too. I agree that “Could care less” doesn’t make sense one bit. I also use “burgled” instead of “burglarized”. British aren’t the only people who use those words. You’re just as arrogant as you make Americans out to be.
THANK YOU
I’m American….I use Couldn’t Care less. Also… I spell like the English… because American spelling seems so wrong to me. Not all Americans are dumb as Sh^t mister Snooty snoot pants :p
I don’t use British spelling, but I usually use British puntuation. It just makes more sense to me. It does bother me when I see people on either side saying the other side is misspelling things, though.
*punctuation. Muphry’s Law in action.
*Murphy’s
No, Muphry’s. That’s the one that specifically applies to errors in posts about spelling and grammar.
Thank you.
Wait…Iceland isn’t a Glacier? That’s new.
That pesky global warming melted it.
Well, I think Scandinavia should have the “Dirty Porn” appellation, but I loled at “Thanksgiving Meal.”
I wonder how well the average European would do on a quiz of American geography.
probably better than many americans…..
probably not.
I don’t know… in my current events class in high school we had an assignment where we had to label a map of the US. Only two of us (out of a class of about 25) passed on the first try. A few weren’t even able to identify our own state.
Granted, this was in a truly horrible school system, and it was a class that was mostly taken by people who didn’t think they’d pass one of the other social studies-type classes, but still.
Wait…you’re in a horrible school system, and you have classes that small?!
How’d they manage that?
Mine wasn’t good either, but being able to name the states has been drilled into us since elementary school.
It was very rural. The classes weren’t huge, but we had about half of them in trailers with leaky roofs because we couldn’t get a levy approved to build a school that was big enough to actually fit all of the students, even when one of the major employers in the area promised to match funds. I got the definite impression that a lot of people (including some of the teachers) thought of the school as just being there to support the football team. They went more than 10 years without a single student who got over 1400 on the SATs. The principal was practically not there at all, and the vice principal was a malicious b*****d who was fired a couple of years later for molesting most of the girls’ volleyball team. I don’t know why they didn’t have huge classes in addition to all the other problems, but small classes alone don’t make a good school.
Wait, 25 is small? I’m in a class of 19…
As a British person I honestly will admit that I know nothing of American geography. NOTHING. I know where Canada and Mexico are in correlation to the US, and that’s it. But admittedly, we don’t get taught it in schools. There’s almost nothing on the entire British curriculum about America. (Maybe it’s still a sore spot >_>)
I actually know American geography almost perfectly. here in Serbia, we learn lots of unnecessary stuff
Someone should do an “American map according to Europe”
Yeah, I can imagine it right now: USA outline with Mickey ears and DISNEYLAND written all over it
Yeah. Disney, Walmart, and McDonald’s. Ah, culture!
That’s where the Jesusland map came from, wasn’t it?
Gee, I love you too Americans.
Not very clever. I’ve seen much better stereotype map… just google for ‘Entropa’.
It’s not that Americans are so stupid. It’s just that they are so self centered that they know little about others. Even when talking about global problems like Global Warming, they can’t manage to see it any other way than through their local politics… You know, the Conservatives vs Liberals bulls**t. The rest of the world is not stuck in the same false dichotomy, but they don’t seem to notice… “Global Warming is Liberal propaganda!” huh…. no. We acknowledge global warming in other countries and we don’t have this political divide. Yes, there is roughly the same left vs right bulls**t. But it is in a different manner. But they imagine that the world revolves around them so….
Sweden should be “TPB” if Iceland can be Wikileaks. Wait, if Iceland is Wikileaks, TPB must be Greenland…
Unfortunately this is all too true
Umm, Turkey isn’t a member of the EU…nor is Russia, Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, Norway or Switzerland.
Oh, and Ukraine, Iceland, Moldova, Belarus, Croatia and PJRM.
This is a horrid map…was it made by Miss South Carolina?
That doesn’t mean they’re not European countries.
Does it say European Union anywhere? No. It says Europe and last time I checked Russia, Norway, etc. are part of the continent.
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
People like you are the reason this map was made.
…and just because the map is from 1987 or so doesnt make it wrong, just outdated
It must be from at least 1991 as the Soviet Union is not existing anymore.
Having lived on both continents, I’ve got to say I’d take Europe over America any day of the week. Oh crap that makes me a commy/nazi/socialist/heathen!!111!!
fail! turkey is not in europe! geographycally and EU
Small part of Turkey is actually in Europe (it’s called ‘euroasian country’). But you’re right that people in Europe don’t consider Turkey to be part of Europe. Also, there was a controversy when Turkey wanted to join the EU.
so what?
or is that just your country thats not on the map jealous baby.
im not proud of my country yet i think you should treat as just as any EU country.
Doesn,t Iceland need to be divided in two? One part for Wikileaks and the other for “ash cloud”?
Three parts, Icesave.
As others have said, there are more maps in the series, and many of them include the alternative names asked about here, like “ABBA”.
Take a look at one of the other maps if this one isn’t to your taste. (Human nature often dictates that the joke is funnier when it’s not about you.)
The problem with this is that most Americans couldn’t pick out Europe on a map, much less the countries in it.
The fact that you really believe that shows your own ignorance of america as a whole.
“Smelly people”? Call us smelly, but don’t forget that we’re also supposed to be horny!
And we have Chanel, Dior, and bread, cheese and wine! :p
sounds like other countries don’t have such things
whooah especially bread.
ok you’ve got hairy pits instead…happy
I’m in the buffer zone
me 2
me 4. why are you sad?
Wait… this ISN’T correct? Wow, my geography teacher was terrible.
IM WIKILEAKS WOOOOOO
actually, Norway should be labeled ‘cash’ and not Switzerland, ’cause Norway is richer. haha
But lots of people (and apparently not just Americans, based on the other maps in this series) associate Switzerland with banks. Norway was labeled “Selfish Fisherman Land” on the composite map, though.
Oh, so I live in the country of Dracula. Thank god they don’t think we’re Thieves, like the Italians.
Yeah, congraz. I live in the ‘Buffer zone’ apparently. Even though I have no f***** idea what that means
yes, me too !
Wait, we’re Sodom- Oooh, yeah. Of course we are. Sorry.
Wait..why is Bulgaria part of Dracula?Wasn’t just Romania the ‘country with vampires’?
Americans have the freedom to be as idiotic as they want, and the cream rises to the top and takes care of everything else. Money talks: more than who your parents are, what schools they attended, or the nationality of your ancestors. As an American and onetime European history major, I thought it was pretty clever and enjoyed many of the additional comments offered by our European friends!
Hey y’all I’m an American from Tennessee living in Portugal (yes I live here yes I speak Portuguese and yes I know all of those countries and their capitals, have seen some of them).
NO not all Americans are stupid.
YES some are.
NO that has nothing to do with world geography skills.
SOME people are just stupid in the world, some are smart and yet most lack the wisdom to see the difference.
NO not all Europeans know anything about their own continent.
NEITHER do Americans.
NO it doesn’t matter. You can be very intelligent but not be concerned about geography.
…and for the record everyone in Portugal thinks New Orleans is in Tennessee
I’d be surprised if most americans are even aware that there is a world outside USA.
Here ya go, arrogant ____ trash. Most Europeans can’t find any states but Hawaii, Alaska, Texas and California on a map. They assume because I graduated from a University in Texas that I’m a cowboy or related to oil barons or something else absurd, even though I wasn’t even raised there. Who cares?
I’ve lived in Iceland, the UK, and Germany. I’ve had a LOT of good times with a LOT of Europeans in almost all the Western and quite a few Eastern European countries.
I live in Japan right now, I’ve also lived in Korea and Tawian. I LOVE it here, despite being told how I’d always be an outsider, how xenophobic the Japanese are, etc. It was all BS. Just like this map.
Every stereotype any of you mooks has about other countries is wrong. Period. Get off the internets and get on an airplane and open your eyes.
For that matter, anyone who talks about any place they have never been to is a precipitous moron, regardless of where you are from or who you are ignorantly spouting off about.
Most Americans know about other countries, most Americans just don’t care. Huge difference.
The sheer hypocrisy of almost all the comments here is profound.
You don’t get the word ‘stereotype’, do you?
So… are you an oil baron cowboy?
(I can find about 40 states on the map, btw)
Howdy, ol’ fella!
I think is TAIWAN, not Tawian…
Texans get offended very easlily. Get on airplane and open your cowboy eyes. LOL.
Maybe I’m just lucky, but I’ve never met any American that that thought that….and I’m born and raised in Georgia.
Sure, I can’t name every single country in that map, but I know some of them…but it’s mostly just because I really don’t care. I’m sure a lot of Europeans can’t name every state in the U.S. without looking, either.
This is the third “Americans can’t find countries” joke I’ve seen today, and it’s just getting really old.
Since when are states and countries equivalent?
Europe has a whole whack of countries.
The USA (I refuse to call it America, because everyone in North and South America is an American by any technicality) has WAY too many states.
Thus,
Plenty of countries can be similar to plenty of states in comparison of geography skills.
I must admit, about half Americans are half-assed but not all.
Why is Brazil Portugal?
Idiot
Because they have same language, Portuguese
Brazil was a Portuguese colony.
I am amazed it’d not ‘Nazis’ or ‘Cars’ for Germany.
Also Resident Evil 4 clearly took place in NotSpain. They insist several times that it’s NotSpain.
HEy !!!! WHY AM I THANKS GIVING????? somebody tell me please!
Turkey (the bird) is the traditional meal for the US holiday of Thanksgiving.
Map Of the U.S.A according to europeans:
pacific / uneducated babaric fat creationists /atlantic
…That’s about right for how Canada sees them too, actually. *Canadian living in France*
Yes I was vote 1701 :]
Too bad the majority of Americans (myself included) Cant even read this map to get the joke!
LOL too funny! I agree though Austria should be marked “kangaroos”, and Sweden should be “Abba”.
At least Romania is on the map.
i can read it but it fails so much. i happen to see it as countries
*wonders if any of the people leaving comments have been to the US*
Isn’t it funny how you see so much US bashing and you don’t see Americans insulting other countries? Funny how many bigoted posts there are accusing all Americans of being bigoted. Is that meta?
Yeah… I too notice that…
same.
I bet Europeans are just mad we have way more freedom then them!
“hey do you support your country’s right to bear arms?”
“Yes.”
“well, you’re an idiot. HAH!”
This is pretty funny but not necessarily accurate.
If you want to make a map of Europe stereotyped by America, “Socialist Union” should be “Vikings” and Germany should be “Nazis”. Austria should be either Terminator or Australia.
I’m “Commie”-American btw (: I love stuff like this.
I like how I can name the countries because of their stereotypes.
It would be nice if you could actually read the whole thing.
Instead of “Socialist Union,” put “Heavy Metal” on the Scandinavian countries.
\m/
wow if there was a South America map according to americans the whole thing would just say Mexico.
There is.
It doesn’t.
Go to the link beneath the map that says Graph by: Alphadesigner
Dumb Americans!
I’m personally thrilled that whoever made this remembered about Kaliningrad Oblast between Poland and Lithuania.
Yeah, I find it interesting that my fellow Americans could perfectly distinguish Kaliningrad from the “buffer zone”, and also draw and label Sardinia, Crete, and even Sicily to the appropriate countries, but still be ridiculed.
Lol at some of the offended people.
what does The Netherlands say?
I’m happy that Norway is in it, the last time I chatted with an american she thought Norway was a place in Australia…-.-’
And here I was, expecting to see Norway labeled as the capital of Sweden like many Americans believe :/. But ye, “Socialist Union” covers it just fine.
GOSH I love those maps, sterotypes FTW xD
http://alphadesigner.com/project-mapping-stereotypes.html
I dislike how the French labeled us ‘Semi-France’ tho…bleh
Wait… Poland labels Switzerland as ‘Weirdos’ o_O Why that lol?
What does it say at Belgium and The netherlands?
It is unreadably small :O
It IS really small, I want to know it too xD
The UK as ‘Mummy’ makes me b’aaaw. The only cute thing about how these Americans think.
Trust me, that’s not how we view the UK anymore.
PORTUGUESE ARE NOT BRAZILIANS!! *RAAAAAAGGGGGEEEE* JFGIOUYHFYIUEHFNUSOIPMJPS:FLOLKFMIO{WSS
Wow way to insult Portugal by confusing it with Brazil
lol it’s hilarious, but Romania (dracula on the map) does NOT have that shape.
Sigh, why is former Yugoslavia resident evil? I bet people will see us as a savages forever
Germany is dirty porn? o.ô Can anyone explain that to me? I would have said anything, nazis, cuckoo clocks, BEER, sausages… anything. but porn??
I’d label Germany under sausages, beer, metalfests…
Scandinavia under vikings, THOR!, epic melodic black metal…
UK under rock, metal, tea…
and I’m from Slovenia(former Yu country) and it’s a mafia paradise over here, let me tell you
Hi, I’m from Dirty Porn.
You called Portugal Brazil?? I’m Brazilian and I feel offended.
Russian guy sees chart. *looks at flight ticket to D.C.* *slowly reaches for flame thrower*