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Want to know how to easily piss people off in their own countries? Then check out this helpful guide by Cale, the artist behind the popular webcomic Things In Squares. Whether you're looking to upset the French, the Germans, the Mexicans or the Japanese, his tongue-in-cheek comics will show you the best way to go about it. Don't like the Italians? Then abuse their beloved spaghetti and watch the tears begin to fall. Want to know what really upsets an American? Give them a normal-sized plate of healthy food and find out for yourself. And if you really want to hurt a Canadian then just assume they're American and you've made an enemy for life. Scroll down to see if you can find your own country in there. Did he get it right? Let us know in the comments below, and don't forget to vote for the best!

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Stille20
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We are good with healthy food, but our portion size is OUT OF CONTROL.

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Kelly
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not true: most Italians break spaghetti. Moreover, "mama" is wrong. Correct word is "mamma".

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Jen
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a rule in my (non-Japanese) home too. Shoes are dirty people!

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do you want to know how to REALLY annoy a mexican? Tell us how much you like mexican food followed by "... at Taco Bell".

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darknessIsMyOutfit
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just because Mexican food dishes can be spicy doesn't mean that they only like spicy food. Although I heard somewhere because of the spice in their food if one dies in the desert a coyote won't even eat them.

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sunnyrei82
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

LOL! I loved that comment about the coyote not eating a mexican! It really made me laugh. =) Yes: SOME mexican dishes are spicy, but not ALL of them. And, just like you and others said: Not all of us like hot and spicy things.

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Jorge Rodriguez Patiño
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

do you want to know how to REALLY annoy a mexican? Keep saying "5 de mayo" is an important date for us.

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Lynne Darroch
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imagine the confusion of my Mexican husband, having moved to Canada, and being told "happy cinco de mayo" by coworkers...

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Joanne Kamiya
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Spaniards: Ask a waiter in Spain for some salsa, the kind with onions, tomato and cilantro. My cousin did our first day in Spain and the waiter replied, "That's Mexican, you are in Spain lady."

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Daniel Losinger
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Koreans: Don't cover their food with a quarter-inch layer of hot sauce.

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Itzel Salas
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Where are you from? FYI you can spell it with the X and with the J and both is correct

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Timea Talitha Kumi
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, but they eat so much stuff made of corn, that they need this to balance the system 😁

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Susi Io
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this is for people from Calabria... they put hot, hot , hot paprica even in milk!!!

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Lynne Darroch
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Uhm... no. Mexican food isn't that spicy in general. The hot sauce in a bottle thing is more Tex-Mex. I don't recall seeing hot sauce bottles in Mexican homes and restaurants in any significant numbers. Source: going to Mexico City at least once a year since 1997.

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DiReLiNqqeD
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

im Mexican most Mexicans don't write "guey" its "wey" and they don't usually say "Picante" they say "salsa" and i dislike spicy stuff

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Judith C.
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you really want to annoy a mexican, tell us the bent and toasted tortillas are tacos, this is annoying!

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Victoria Nmk
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

...or offer then a plate of healthy salad...proved on practice...

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Scary Terri
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or ask a Mexican if they're Cuban, Honduran, Puerto Rican, Guatemalan, or any other Central or South American native besides Mexican

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Brenda Olano
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lol I'm peruvian and I know many of us would react like that xD I'd be willing to try and be polite though.

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