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While there are some nuances, the truth is that something or someone tends to be the butt of most jokes. Indeed, in some places, the village next door or the country on the other side of the mountains (and its people) fill this role quite perfectly.
Someone asked “Which country do you joke about most in your country?” and people shared their best examples from where they live. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote the ones that made you chuckle and be sure to add your thoughts and own suggestions to the comments below.
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#1
From America. I mostly joke about America.
Rob Erlich 10 months ago
Decades ago there were a lot of jokes in the US about Polish people being stupid. That seems to have ended some time in the 1970s and '80s. I see them in older books and magazines sometimes. There isn't a newer target for those jokes. They've just vanished. Which is for the best, as they were mean-spirited and unfunny.
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#2
In Germany, we made a lot of jokes about France and Poland.
But since Trump is President, I think people, especially my friends and me, make more jokes about the USA than every other country.
Featherytoad 10 months ago
Trump is a never ending supply of jokes. I'm in America, and I'm so ashamed and embarrassed by what is happening here. I am dumb founded by devoted republicans voters that just don't see it. They just double down.
Bacon Tentacles 10 months ago
American here as well. The jokes practically write themselves. The difference between this time around and his last term was that they were actually funny back in 2017. Now? Not so much...kind of hard to laugh when you want to cry.
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Auntriarch 10 months ago
Not fair to kick the afflicted, our US Pandas have quite enough trouble as it is.
Otto Katz 10 months ago
Thank you. We are hurting badly right now. and doing everything we can to get through this, and get this over with.
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Billo66 10 months ago
I live here and sadly even I am ashamed to admit we have become the butt of a joke. The punchline.
Billo66 10 months ago
There are a lot of good people here working hard to make things right, but money talks...
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#3
From England and we joke about America. In fact me and my Dad talked about it this evening. I had asked if the Americans were aware of how other people viewed them. He said "The East coast know how they are viewed, the West coast is too cool to care, and the people in the middle are waiting for God to intervene.".
James016 10 months ago
The funniest thing I saw was that the world views the USA as the USA views Florida
Manny 10 months ago
That's due to all the transplants that won't stay in their own destroyed states
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Marla Singer 10 months ago
Believe me, the west coast cares. Californians are struggling with the humiliation.
Full of Giggles 10 months ago
Idk, there are a lot of East Coast Trump supporters that genuinely believe the world is happy Trump is back in power and he’s one of the most respected world leaders.
#4
I'm from the Netherlands, we mostly joke about the Belgians that they are not the smartest cookie in the jar.
Examples from some jokes 🤗
How do you sink a Belgian submarine?
Just knock
How do you recognize a Belgian pirate?
He wears two eye patches
Why will Belgian be at war with the Netherlands in 20 years?
Because they will finally understand our jokes.
Deborah Michiels 10 months ago
if the brain of the Dutch was as grand as their arrogance, it would get them somewhere...
Jill Rhodry 10 months ago
Aussie here - we used tell similar jokes about the Irish...dunno why though🤷🏻♀️ - ah, but if you think the Irish are dumb Scotch Finger biscuits😂iykyk
#5
For Canada I would have to say America. We are exposed to a lot of their media, a high percentage of Canadians have either visited America or had exposure to American tourists, and their lifestyles are similar enough to our own that it feels kind of relatable.
Mary Kelly 10 months ago
love canadians..the most we can criticze the for is their politeness..how awesome is that!
Trash Panda 10 months ago
We have a show called "Talking to Americans" which is dedicated to making them look stupid
#6
America (guns, police, trump, health care), France (cheese eating surrender monkeys), Germany (two world wars and one World Cup), Wales (sheep), New Zealand (sheep) and Australia (convincts).
But since I’m from the north of England, we mostly joke about the soft southern shandy drinkers.
Jill Rhodry 10 months ago
Everyone loves making fun of us for being convicts - I've yet to meet anyone from convict stock who isn't quite proud of it
#7
Australian here. We usually joke about NZ. Now they have an amazing prime minister while ours is a crook, so we take the p**s out of ourselves and fantasise about moving there (or merging our countries and have Jacinda look after us all).
OSA 10 months ago (edited)
How old is this list?? Jacinda was NZ PM from Oct17 to Jan 23. Currently it's March 25!
trevor 10 months ago
Plus ... take into account daylight savings of ...3 hours ... and 20 years.
Load More Replies... White Sauce Hot Sauce 10 months ago
A Kiwi moves to Australia and raises the average IQ of both countries.
Huddo's sister 10 months ago
I've never made fun of New Zealanders, but a lot of people call them 'sheepshaggers'. I had a friend in high school who came from NZ and I couldn't believe how many people teased her about that. I actually lost (well ditched is more accurate) friends because of it.
#8
From New Zealand, mostly joke about Australia and the US.
#9
Switzerland here: we joke about Austria (not the one with Kangoroos).
#11
When Italians are not joking about other Italians, they usually pick France.
G*****n baguette eating ppl. /s
It's an old feud, and both parts are not going to withdraw.
#12
As a Norwegian, it used to be Sweden but at this point it's probably the UK and the US.
#13
From Scotland. England.
Boris Long-Johnson 10 months ago
And America - the teuchters have even got involved. #ShameOnYouDonaldJohn
#15
As a swede I grew up with jokes about the Norwegians... A couple of examples:
How do you sink a Norwegian submarine? You swim down and knock on the hatch.
Why do Norwegians crawl on the floor of the supermarket? They are looking for low prices.
What are clever people in Norway called? Tourists.
Why wasn't Jesus born in Norway? They couldn't find three wise men.
What do you get if you enter 1+1 on a Norwegian calculator? "Please wait..."
From what I've heard, the Norwegians have similar jokes about Swedes. But it's like a fight between siblings, we still like each other.
#17
I'm from Finland. We joke about Sweden's stupidity and furniture.
DeoManus Argentem 10 months ago
I'm from the US and while traveling through Europe as a college student finally reached Scandinavia (had been to most of continental Europe every summer growing up) I was surprised to learn all the other Scandinavians joke about "stupid Swedes" - had never heard the stereotype before!
#18
Western Slovakia
I am from Eastern Slovakia.
Marla Singer 10 months ago
Classic! Those Western Slovaks with their... their westerly-ness....
#19
In Turkey we joke about greece and in greece they probably joke about us.
#20
American, we mostly just make fun of our own states around us or certain sub-cultures in general i.e. rednecks, 'woke' people, California, etc.
Igor914624 10 months ago
Yea, here in the US we keep it in the family. We make jokes about the other regions of the US. But everybody jokes about Florida... especially the "Florida Man" memes.
Auntriarch 10 months ago
US is so big you don't even need to leave the country for jokes!
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#21
Greece here. Can speak for everyone but in my family we joke about all the neighbor countries, Cyprus, Italy, Turkey, Albania and about the UK cause my sister lives there. I joke about the US because Internet has taught me some people there are truly... well... special...
#22
France.
Which isn't fair, because while the French did surrender in WWII, they did it to save their people from being steamrollered and then created the most badass underground resistance movement in human history.
Ian Webling 10 months ago
No, they created most badass propaganda about their highly incompetent resistance movement. One Briton during the war volunteered to join the resistance because he was s******l but it was against his religious beliefs to k**l himself. During the war, the second greatest cause of casualties in the resistance was injuries sustained while robbing tobacconists. The number one cause was being betrayed to the Germans by their countrymen - usually members of competing - yes, competing - resistance groups. Read any book not written by a French person about the resistance.
IlaTheRedheadBambooEater 10 months ago
Or do yourself a big favour and watch "Allo, Allo!" sitcom, which is fearless and hilarious parody, but yeah, there's something about it :)
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#24
In Poland, coincidentally, we joke most about Poles, Russians and Germans. There's a lot of jokes based on a Pole, a Russian and a German meeting the Devil, and then the punchline is that the Pole uses the most absurd solution to a problem, but it ends up working.
Auntriarch 10 months ago (edited)
I visited the science museum in Warsaw (well worth the visit by the way) and there was a section on humour from different countries, I laughed most at the Polish section and the Indian one. (The UK one was one of Mr Bean's less amusing excerpts)
quentariel 10 months ago
They are probably the similar jokes we use here with a Finn, a Swede and a Norwegian. The Finn always wins with hilariously stupid but working solution. It might involve ignoring everyone, sauna, alcohol or Santa Claus.
#25
If we’re talking about the UK, it’s probably America. However if we’re talking about Wales, it’s definitely England.
#26
Canadian here. I've noticed people like to joke about America, mostly their healthcare system. Although I talked to some people at school before they closed and they jokingly said we need to build a wall so the US doesn't spread COVID through the border lmao.
#27
From Ukraine. Mostly joking about ourselves. Often about Russia. Sometimes about European countries. Recently, also about China.
#28
Brazil here. When we are not joking about our own country, we usually joke about Portugal (fair, since they took all our gold lol) and Argentina.
#29
American. I think it’s a tie between England and Canada.
Canada is sort of viewed as a polite sibling/cousin. We joke about them loving hockey, syrup, and apologizing. We love Canada!
We tend to joke about England losing the revolutionary war, their obsession with tea, and calling it soccer to annoy them. The whole “we don’t need kettles for our tea, we harbor it instead” type of joke is a favorite. We love the English as well.
Novlette Williams 10 months ago
In Jamaica if you are ill or injured and offered the choice between life saving medical attention or mint tea, we will always take the tea. Mint tea cures everything in Jamaica.
Load More Replies... Paul Rabit 10 months ago
I think the other comment where we make fun of our own states before we make fun of other countries is more true. But yes, I'd say Canada is the closest COUNTRY that we make fun of. Also Mexico... but those jokes always smack of racism...
Mtn Lungta 10 months ago
Our cartoonists like to make fun of n*zi tw ats of any country .... the 50 states with donkey don are currently ahead this year
Onan Hag All 10 months ago
"Calling it soccer"? Well, seeing as we invented the fucki ng language and the game, I think we may be correct in doing that.
Sam Trudeau 10 months ago
Fun fact: Cunk on Earth (a mockumentary themed around a British woman telling history badly) has a reverse Revolution joke, that the US wasted their tea. As for USA, until the 2024-25 election you had, a Canadian will say that it was mostly respectable, barring the joke about the outdated measurements and a bunch of other stuff. Now it's that the western side of Earth has seen a criminal president
#30
I'm from Argentina and people joke a lot about people from Uruguay since it used to be a province here before they became an independent country, many people here say that it's another province of ours. Also about people from Chile.
Edit: I forgot about or own country since pretty much every politician here is corrupt and steals a s**t ton of money so there's that.
#31
I'm from Chile. The answer is Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. We have a looooong history lol I'm sure we would be their answer too. but there isn't something that we joke about the most that our own government lol.
#32
In Romania we mostly joke about Hungary but sometimes also Serbia and Russia.
#35
Venezuelans. I don't do it, but people are going crazy xenophobic in Latin America since the economic crisis. They're the punchline to every joke nowadays and tbh it's really sad.
#37
I'm American and have jokes for just about every country there is. My personal favorites are Turkmenistan, Germany, the UK, and India.
Heffalump 10 months ago
As an American you've probably never heard anything about Turkmenistan.
Load More Replies... Mtn Lungta 10 months ago
As a Canadian we knew you weren't joking about invading. Still not a joke.
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Nix 9 months ago
I kind of wonder what the general "cut off" would be considered for when we don't make fun of a country anymore because of how bad off they are? Like no one makes fun of places like North Korea or Syria because of how badly off their people are (we rightly insult the corrupt leaders but not the country as a whole). Kind of shudder to think how badly off a place has to be for people to no longer have the heart to make jokes about it.
Wharfrat 10 months ago
In England, the traditional butt of the "they're stupid" jokes are the Irish, tight with money, the Scots, anything involving sheep, the Welsh. Other national stereotypes I can think of in jokes are Germans, French and Italians. So pretty much our close neighbours. What is going on in the US is changing the picture...
Lene 10 months ago
I'm Danish and I am SHOCKED to learn that Norwegians and Swedes do not joke (that much) about Denmark 😳 I mean... we've ruled over both countries (a loooooong time ago) and we've done quite bad things in Sweden especially. You can't tell me that especially the Swedes don't joke about Denmark a lot! (In Denmark we have a rivalry-thing going on with Sweden. And historically there seem to have been this idea that Norwegians were evil and in league with Satan). I honestly and seriously expected some jokes about Danes and Denmark. 🤔😄
Bob Jones 10 months ago
grew up in South Africa many years ago. White English speakers would tell jokes about white Afrikaans speakers from up north (low intelligence, lack of worldview and their accent when speaking English, similar to American Southern rednecks I guess). White Afrikaans speakers would tell racist and crude jokes about black people. This of course a gross generalisation
Marnie 10 months ago
In Minnesota, USA, as a kid, there was a big fad of making Iowa jokes. Sometimes we picked on Wisconsin. Both of these are bordering states. It just occurred to me, I've never heard a single joke about North or South Dakota, even though they also border us. I can't think of any specific country we make fun of here. Maybe Chinese tourists. Haven't heard that in person, but I've read of people lightly making fun of them.
10 months ago
In England aside from America, we joke about our neighbouring countries, Wales and Scotland
Nix 9 months ago
I kind of wonder what the general "cut off" would be considered for when we don't make fun of a country anymore because of how bad off they are? Like no one makes fun of places like North Korea or Syria because of how badly off their people are (we rightly insult the corrupt leaders but not the country as a whole). Kind of shudder to think how badly off a place has to be for people to no longer have the heart to make jokes about it.
Wharfrat 10 months ago
In England, the traditional butt of the "they're stupid" jokes are the Irish, tight with money, the Scots, anything involving sheep, the Welsh. Other national stereotypes I can think of in jokes are Germans, French and Italians. So pretty much our close neighbours. What is going on in the US is changing the picture...
Lene 10 months ago
I'm Danish and I am SHOCKED to learn that Norwegians and Swedes do not joke (that much) about Denmark 😳 I mean... we've ruled over both countries (a loooooong time ago) and we've done quite bad things in Sweden especially. You can't tell me that especially the Swedes don't joke about Denmark a lot! (In Denmark we have a rivalry-thing going on with Sweden. And historically there seem to have been this idea that Norwegians were evil and in league with Satan). I honestly and seriously expected some jokes about Danes and Denmark. 🤔😄
Bob Jones 10 months ago
grew up in South Africa many years ago. White English speakers would tell jokes about white Afrikaans speakers from up north (low intelligence, lack of worldview and their accent when speaking English, similar to American Southern rednecks I guess). White Afrikaans speakers would tell racist and crude jokes about black people. This of course a gross generalisation
Marnie 10 months ago
In Minnesota, USA, as a kid, there was a big fad of making Iowa jokes. Sometimes we picked on Wisconsin. Both of these are bordering states. It just occurred to me, I've never heard a single joke about North or South Dakota, even though they also border us. I can't think of any specific country we make fun of here. Maybe Chinese tourists. Haven't heard that in person, but I've read of people lightly making fun of them.
10 months ago
In England aside from America, we joke about our neighbouring countries, Wales and Scotland
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