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Cultural Torture: A Hilarious Guide On How To Piss Off People In Different Countries (10 Pics)
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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Polleekin 8 years ago
I think they're chained up so they can be "tortured" with the cultural insensitivity. If they weren't restrained they could escape.
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Mary Kavanagh 8 years ago
Mistaking New Zealanders for Australians, or even worse (saving the presence of any English people reading this!), mistaking Irish people for English. Not cool!
Aurélie Franck 8 years ago
Yes I know the feeling very well!! I'm Belgian and I'm always asked "where from France are you from?" 😑 So annoying!!
Hannah Kobayashi 7 years ago
This happens to all my Canadian friends when they visit the UK and it also happens to kiwis getting mistaken for oussies 😄
Ruthanne Urquhart 7 years ago
You know us better than I do! I was thinking of something like "Canadians: Never say you're sorry." But this is so much more horrible, it's perfect!
Brandi Walker 8 years ago
Well it might be a chain, but it looks like the chain is just attached to a piece of string, lmao.
Andrew “Vizantiyec” Bykovets 8 years ago
Also, can be applied to Ukrainians! I hate when someone calls me Russian!
Roly Hodgkinson 8 years ago
Not true, we are conscious that we"re from opposite sides of the border.
KC Cabauatan 8 years ago
Hehehe: Both are gonna be pissed by Filipinos who'd call them 'Kano or by Mexicans who calls em both, GRINGO!!!
Sobia Malik 8 years ago
Why is a Martian included? Is the cartoonist comparing people from other countries to aliens? That's a bit stupidly racist isn't it? And all the more stupid as they're supposed to be people from other countries IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY. Odd.
HauntedForests 8 years ago
Why do all of the people from different cultures have chains around their arm?
Rambling Rapscallion 8 years ago
I must admit I usually can't tell American and Canadian accents apart. Unless they say abøut or withøut or smth like that :D
KC Cabauatan 8 years ago
tell a canadian to say the letter Z, if he pronounced it as Zed, then there you go.
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Joseph Bonifacio 8 years ago
the chain in the arm i think , reflects that their attached to their customs
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sunnyrei82 8 years ago
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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Brenda Olano 8 years ago
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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sunnyrei82 8 years ago
If you check the link on the address bar of your browser, you will see something like "cultural-torture-things...", I guess the original title or idea of the post was about torturing people from different countries, but they decided to change the title.
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Mark Hinchcliffe 8 years ago
which is the f*****g point of the article...
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Scott Cohen 8 years ago
No, the best way to p**s off the Belgians is to force them to eat American chocolate or drink the American swill
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Calum Gethin-barkway 8 years ago
for british people, get them to make tea but make them put the milk in first. (Im British)
Adriana Coppage 4 years ago
and ask them: "so how do you speak Brazilian?
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Fiona Messenger 7 years ago
England: Make a cup of tea the colour of hearing-aid beige. Wales: Call them English. Scotland: Call them British. Ireland:....actually I can't think of anything that would annoy them
Weeping Willowz (WeepingWillowz) 8 years ago
If there was a no one it would be something along the lines of “no gumboots” or “where in Australia are you from” (New Zealand HATES Australia)((I’m a New Zealander))
Weeping Willowz (WeepingWillowz) 8 years ago
“No one” was supposed to be NZ
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Marco Cruz 8 years ago
# 8 Not true! Mexicans hate people think of hard shell tacos, chimichangas, burritos, etc as Mexican food. Also, there's no such thing as street tacos or soft shell tacos. Soft or street tacos are just "Tacos" that is the way they are supposed to be. Never made with flour tortilla, ground beef, sour cream, cheese or lettuce. Are you kidding me?!?!?! The end! LOL
Lilith Kooks 8 years ago
Ways to p**s off a Japanese: 1. Listen to your music loudly in public 2. Ignore elderly people on the train while sitting. 3. Litter. 4. Leave a tip. 5. Don't slurp your noodles. 6. Don't bring a gift to a friend's house 7. Assume that what is shown in anime is true 8. Blow your nose in public 9. Wreak havoc at a shrine 10. Don't speak formally to your elders/employers.
Ricardo Paredes 8 years ago
There is no Chilean ceviche what exists is a badly named pisco Chilean that in fact is a poor brandy. Our cultural torture is that they take possession of pisco, lomo saltado, suspiro limeño, etc, And sell it to the world like yours.
Stefania Garlatti-Costa 8 years ago
I always break spaghetti in two and I'm Italian. We all do except know-it-all food bores (all of them men btw).
Diego Fildes-Torrijos 8 years ago
This was beyond stupid, stereotypical and obvious... I want 1 minute of my life back.
Yehudit Hannah Cohn 8 years ago
This is all so . . . cheap. Of course, I should have guessed that from the use of the words "to p**s off people", but I was hoping the writer had ideas that generally transcended eighth grade.
Benny Sandico 8 years ago
Indonesians: let them eat with their left hand. They wash their butts with it
Paula Parsons 8 years ago
Nobody dare offend a muslim! They start a riot.
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Fernando Gómez Flores 8 years ago
To p**s off Mexicans, give them American-style hard-shell tortilla chips with meat and assorted vegetables and call it a taco. To p**s off non-Mexico City Mexicans, ask them whether they like their quesadilla with or without cheese. Conversely, to p**s of Mexico City Mexicans, give them a quesadilla with cheese without asking first.
Željko Matuško 8 years ago
Put in front of ANY Slav vegetarian food , or in front of Bosniak "burek" without meat
Paolo Minguzzi 8 years ago
In Italian it's "Mamma" with a double "M". If you really want to stereotype us, at least do it properly.
Andy Popov 8 years ago
Every nations has the different people... I like American people like Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, Miranda Lambert and Nicole Kidman, and I do not like John Mccain...
Francois Cardinal 8 years ago
I am from Québec and I will be very pleased if someone ask me if I am from US instead of canada.
Tara Slater 8 years ago
Yeah well go be a part of their country then. We won't miss you.
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Tiny Dynamine 8 years ago
I am sure that it isn't because these are not differentiating between people based on their race but their nationality. I hope that helps.
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sunnyrei82 8 years ago
If you check the link on the address bar of your browser, you will see something like "cultural-torture-things...", I guess the original title or idea of the post was about torturing people from different countries, but they decided to change the title.
Load More Replies... Mark Hinchcliffe 8 years ago
which is the f*****g point of the article...
Load More Replies... Scott Cohen 8 years ago
No, the best way to p**s off the Belgians is to force them to eat American chocolate or drink the American swill
Load More Replies... Calum Gethin-barkway 8 years ago
for british people, get them to make tea but make them put the milk in first. (Im British)
Adriana Coppage 4 years ago
and ask them: "so how do you speak Brazilian?
Load More Replies... Fiona Messenger 7 years ago
England: Make a cup of tea the colour of hearing-aid beige. Wales: Call them English. Scotland: Call them British. Ireland:....actually I can't think of anything that would annoy them
Weeping Willowz (WeepingWillowz) 8 years ago
If there was a no one it would be something along the lines of “no gumboots” or “where in Australia are you from” (New Zealand HATES Australia)((I’m a New Zealander))
Weeping Willowz (WeepingWillowz) 8 years ago
“No one” was supposed to be NZ
Load More Replies... Marco Cruz 8 years ago
# 8 Not true! Mexicans hate people think of hard shell tacos, chimichangas, burritos, etc as Mexican food. Also, there's no such thing as street tacos or soft shell tacos. Soft or street tacos are just "Tacos" that is the way they are supposed to be. Never made with flour tortilla, ground beef, sour cream, cheese or lettuce. Are you kidding me?!?!?! The end! LOL
Lilith Kooks 8 years ago
Ways to p**s off a Japanese: 1. Listen to your music loudly in public 2. Ignore elderly people on the train while sitting. 3. Litter. 4. Leave a tip. 5. Don't slurp your noodles. 6. Don't bring a gift to a friend's house 7. Assume that what is shown in anime is true 8. Blow your nose in public 9. Wreak havoc at a shrine 10. Don't speak formally to your elders/employers.
Ricardo Paredes 8 years ago
There is no Chilean ceviche what exists is a badly named pisco Chilean that in fact is a poor brandy. Our cultural torture is that they take possession of pisco, lomo saltado, suspiro limeño, etc, And sell it to the world like yours.
Stefania Garlatti-Costa 8 years ago
I always break spaghetti in two and I'm Italian. We all do except know-it-all food bores (all of them men btw).
Diego Fildes-Torrijos 8 years ago
This was beyond stupid, stereotypical and obvious... I want 1 minute of my life back.
Yehudit Hannah Cohn 8 years ago
This is all so . . . cheap. Of course, I should have guessed that from the use of the words "to p**s off people", but I was hoping the writer had ideas that generally transcended eighth grade.
Benny Sandico 8 years ago
Indonesians: let them eat with their left hand. They wash their butts with it
Paula Parsons 8 years ago
Nobody dare offend a muslim! They start a riot.
Load More Replies... Fernando Gómez Flores 8 years ago
To p**s off Mexicans, give them American-style hard-shell tortilla chips with meat and assorted vegetables and call it a taco. To p**s off non-Mexico City Mexicans, ask them whether they like their quesadilla with or without cheese. Conversely, to p**s of Mexico City Mexicans, give them a quesadilla with cheese without asking first.
Željko Matuško 8 years ago
Put in front of ANY Slav vegetarian food , or in front of Bosniak "burek" without meat
Paolo Minguzzi 8 years ago
In Italian it's "Mamma" with a double "M". If you really want to stereotype us, at least do it properly.
Andy Popov 8 years ago
Every nations has the different people... I like American people like Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, Miranda Lambert and Nicole Kidman, and I do not like John Mccain...
Francois Cardinal 8 years ago
I am from Québec and I will be very pleased if someone ask me if I am from US instead of canada.
Tara Slater 8 years ago
Yeah well go be a part of their country then. We won't miss you.
Load More Replies... Tiny Dynamine 8 years ago
I am sure that it isn't because these are not differentiating between people based on their race but their nationality. I hope that helps.
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