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Someone Made 18 Stereotypical Maps Of Europe, And Some Of Them Will Probably Offend You
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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Alcoholic beverages come from crops that grow in that part of Europe: grapes in the south; barley in the middle, and potatoes in the north. It all depends on availability. ;D
On the map just people in north gemany drink beer, so what is with the south with all the breweries? ^^
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Poland is a part of "Vodka belt" (we produce a lot of vodka) but we drink more beer then any other alcohol, as a matter of fact we drink more beer then UK or Ireland!
Really? Personally I prefer beer but whenever I go outside there are LOOOTS of people drinking vodka
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Alcohol is the thing that brings Europe together. https://the-little-black-book-of-european-stereotypes.com/
Totally BS. The Baltic countries have a strong beer culture and vodka is only poplin Finland amongst the Scandinavian countries
Don't skip RAKIA (most popular made from grapes, plums, apricots or pears) on the Balkans. 107455685_...31ac47.jpg 
Historicaly the map regarding Sweden is relatively correct if one consider that we drink a lot of beer. On the other hand has the consumtion of wine increased steday in Sweden since at least 50 years back.
Yeah Greeks are so well known for drinking/making wine........ not even close
Actually since collapse of the communism vodka is less and less popular in Poland, we drink mainly beer.
Not really true... My country is in red but we are Rakija all the way...
yeap !!! Romania has everything :))) we have great wines, we have some decent beers, and some really good "tuica" and "palinca" and "visinata" and "gutuiata" and "nucata" etc etc :))))
Czech republic (central Europe) is beer+wine+vodka drinking country
Poland is third producer of Beer in Europe after Great Britain and germany. But we produce a lot of Vodka too. And I mean really a lot.
The problem is that beer is stronger on the Wine Europe, which is Beer Europe favourite holiday destination. So Beer Europe people have one single beer in Wine Europe and get....well...drunk!
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!
It wasn't meant to be. It was meant to be funny. They are stereotypes.
Load More Replies... 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.
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.
Malta and the Maltese classified as lazy oh that's so wrong. Sure the author missed the concept all together. Our blooming economy surely isn't the merits of lazing around.
I am portuguese and i honestly do not understand what Portugal is doing in Europe´s map. We are not europeans; we dont want to be. Since we are located in the southwest corner of Europe (wich can be both the beginning or the end of it) we have critical distance enough to understand that europeans are a enormous variety of tribes that have been killing each other since ever. Europe it´s the most violent continente of the world: the cradle of two world wars. In Portugal we fought against inquisition during the middle ages, we were one of the first countries in the world to abolish slavery, the very first one to abolish death penalty and we were able to make a smooth transition to democracy whithout having a bloody revolution. I´m not being nationalist. I dont think Portugal is better than any other country in the world. But we dont want to be a part of that map.
Whoever did this has no idea what i actually going on in the world, just presuming. Pity the idiot has nothing better to do
As a European, I can take the joke without being offended :D And also, I actually feel most of these are accurate for me (not talking about other countries or even different people in my country, just me).
The stereotypes are from the perspective of a East European. You can take the East European out of East Europe, but you can't take the East Europe out of him easily. And from that perspective I recognize the stereotypes. The olive /butter, tomato/potato and religion one are actually pretty good, even if the religion one is missing a religion. The stereotypes could have hit harder if the illustrator chose to use national borders instead of just simple curves. The Lazy thing is a really national phenomenon, where I could see the German perspective being that everyone outside of Germany/ Austria being lazy. The Czech perspective would have everyone to the East and South of Austria being lazy. The alcohol thing would be interesting, because Poland and majority of area of Slovakia like the hard liquor, Czechs, Germans and SW Slovakia likes beer. There are pockets of wine consumption all over these areas mentioned.
"If you can swallow your pride and have a laugh at yourself", apparently not, as the last four are now hidden because they were voted down, because everyone is taken this FAR TOO SERIOUSLY. Stereotypes should make us think - and have a laugh.
Humour. It's a wonderful attribute. So often lacking. I hee-hee'd out loud, which is like lolling but quieter. Anyone taking offence at this bit of harmless fun probably needs a humour transplant, possibly but not likely available on the NHS.
Well, i haven't seen a single post that singlehandedly complimented AND insulted multiple nationalities in one shot, in a loooong time! :D
These are generalizations for humor's sake. Having traveled throughput Europe (before and after the Iron Curtain) and spent time with family and friends from all regions, there is some truth to each of these stereotypes. Some are more accurate than others. Rather than gripe and whine, if you disagree, why not redraw your own borders?
Ah....ok I take it back. I looked at some of the ones that were hidden and I can see how they are offensive.
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It wasn't meant to be. It was meant to be funny. They are stereotypes.
Load More Replies... 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.
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.
Malta and the Maltese classified as lazy oh that's so wrong. Sure the author missed the concept all together. Our blooming economy surely isn't the merits of lazing around.
I am portuguese and i honestly do not understand what Portugal is doing in Europe´s map. We are not europeans; we dont want to be. Since we are located in the southwest corner of Europe (wich can be both the beginning or the end of it) we have critical distance enough to understand that europeans are a enormous variety of tribes that have been killing each other since ever. Europe it´s the most violent continente of the world: the cradle of two world wars. In Portugal we fought against inquisition during the middle ages, we were one of the first countries in the world to abolish slavery, the very first one to abolish death penalty and we were able to make a smooth transition to democracy whithout having a bloody revolution. I´m not being nationalist. I dont think Portugal is better than any other country in the world. But we dont want to be a part of that map.
Whoever did this has no idea what i actually going on in the world, just presuming. Pity the idiot has nothing better to do
As a European, I can take the joke without being offended :D And also, I actually feel most of these are accurate for me (not talking about other countries or even different people in my country, just me).
The stereotypes are from the perspective of a East European. You can take the East European out of East Europe, but you can't take the East Europe out of him easily. And from that perspective I recognize the stereotypes. The olive /butter, tomato/potato and religion one are actually pretty good, even if the religion one is missing a religion. The stereotypes could have hit harder if the illustrator chose to use national borders instead of just simple curves. The Lazy thing is a really national phenomenon, where I could see the German perspective being that everyone outside of Germany/ Austria being lazy. The Czech perspective would have everyone to the East and South of Austria being lazy. The alcohol thing would be interesting, because Poland and majority of area of Slovakia like the hard liquor, Czechs, Germans and SW Slovakia likes beer. There are pockets of wine consumption all over these areas mentioned.
"If you can swallow your pride and have a laugh at yourself", apparently not, as the last four are now hidden because they were voted down, because everyone is taken this FAR TOO SERIOUSLY. Stereotypes should make us think - and have a laugh.
Humour. It's a wonderful attribute. So often lacking. I hee-hee'd out loud, which is like lolling but quieter. Anyone taking offence at this bit of harmless fun probably needs a humour transplant, possibly but not likely available on the NHS.
Well, i haven't seen a single post that singlehandedly complimented AND insulted multiple nationalities in one shot, in a loooong time! :D
These are generalizations for humor's sake. Having traveled throughput Europe (before and after the Iron Curtain) and spent time with family and friends from all regions, there is some truth to each of these stereotypes. Some are more accurate than others. Rather than gripe and whine, if you disagree, why not redraw your own borders?
Ah....ok I take it back. I looked at some of the ones that were hidden and I can see how they are offensive.
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