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Someone Made 18 Stereotypical Maps Of Europe, And Some Of Them Will Probably Offend You
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Yanko Tsvetkov (previously here) is far from being a professional cartographer, but he has quit a thing for maps. The Bulgarian-born graphic artist, who now resides in Spain, is acutely aware of both the serious inter-cultural debates and disputes gripping the world, and the ridiculous stereotypes we all hold against each other. His desire to reconcile the two culminated in the Atlas of Prejudice, a project which sees him drawing maps that combine history with hearsay in the most hilarious fashion.
One of the many chapters of this alternative atlas, entitled Tearing Europe Apart, examines the many cultural divides that seem to govern the continent. If you can swallow your pride and have a laugh at yourself (as well as your neighbors), scroll down to see which side of the dotted line your country falls on, and let us know in the comments if you agree with the author.
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you slice Poland in half which is kinda awesome cause it puts me in brown-ish part and I could not fix my own sink to save my life, nor would my brother I think ;)
Folks! Taste is soooo subjective! What might be delicious to you is gaggingly disgusting to me, and vice versa!
"accurate view of the world" -> no it isn't
It wasn't meant to be. It was meant to be funny. They are stereotypes.
My bad. I just looked at some of the ones that were hidden. They are downright tasteless. Apologies.
But it's not funny. Not even close. No where near the funny page
Many of these stereotypes are based on climate and how people were able to survive. Agriculture played a major part on such things as food, alcoholic beverages, and other staples. Oh, and Communism also played a major part. Many of them make perfectly good sense.
I'm from Europe and just two of them have sense.
I'm also from Europe and pretty much all of them make sense. They're not necessarily true, of course (what do you expect from stereotypes anyway?), but they mostly make some sense nonetheless.
Good sense? No. Stereotypes, the point of it, yes
Not offended. Yet you can't make 29+ countries in just 2 or 3 categories. Some maps showed clear misunderstanding of a couple countries like France, Switzerland or Germany.
"accurate view of the world" -> no it isn't
It wasn't meant to be. It was meant to be funny. They are stereotypes.
My bad. I just looked at some of the ones that were hidden. They are downright tasteless. Apologies.
But it's not funny. Not even close. No where near the funny page
Many of these stereotypes are based on climate and how people were able to survive. Agriculture played a major part on such things as food, alcoholic beverages, and other staples. Oh, and Communism also played a major part. Many of them make perfectly good sense.
I'm from Europe and just two of them have sense.
I'm also from Europe and pretty much all of them make sense. They're not necessarily true, of course (what do you expect from stereotypes anyway?), but they mostly make some sense nonetheless.
Good sense? No. Stereotypes, the point of it, yes
Not offended. Yet you can't make 29+ countries in just 2 or 3 categories. Some maps showed clear misunderstanding of a couple countries like France, Switzerland or Germany.