35 Most Interesting Responses To “Without Telling The Name Of Your Country, Where Do You Live?”
A lot of effort is put into decreasing the pervasiveness of stereotypes, for instance in the workplace. However, sometimes stereotypes bring entertainment: in sitcoms, they are commonly used as comedic devices. Think Kelly Bundy from "Married With Children" representing the dumb and sexually liberated blonde trope. The hurtful nature and the joy of reclaiming a stereotype is illustrated by plenty of sketches with the joke being that character realizes they are not close friends with someone after the person they teased with stereotypes gets offended.
One redditor, heisnberg97, posted on r/AskReddit "Without telling the name of your country, where do you live?" The post blew up, garnering nearly 49,000 upvotes and over 60,000 comments, detailing niche as well as broad hints at where people live. Vague ones such as "Cheese" were typically answered with: "Do you know how little that narrows it down?" BoredPanda selected some of the best responses, so we invite you to play along in the comments.
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United States of America. We're not good at following instructions.
I prefer to stay neutral concerning this question.
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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
The prince who always emails you
"Watch out, mate, there's a shark."
"No worries, one of the crocs'll get him."
Made in ____
I would literally die without my cheese, my wine and my baguette
All roads lead to our capital
Rammstein, no speed limit
We come from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun and the hot springs flow!
My wife is a teacher and they are going to start wearing tennis shoes this year to be better prepared for active shooters.
We lost a plane
Fries, cycling, chocolate and beer, also waffles and comics
We think we are better than everyone because we discovered democracy and haven't done much since.
Kimchi
My country doesn’t show up on the map most of the time and we love Rugby
World's only non-quadrilateral flag
We invented one of the most well known and versatile plastic toy products. Which are good for both kids and adults.
Borat damaged our international image
I gotta be honest, without Borat most people outside Europe wouldn't even know Kazakhstan is even a country.
I got to be honest, I learned about a new country the day I saw that movie. Then I Googled it and found out they also have a space program.
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Fun fact: Borat was originally supposed to be an Albanian. But because he was afraid of them, he switched to Kazakhstan, which has been an absolute model of a LACK of religious and ethnic hatred, containing huge populations of Muslims, Jews and Christians living in peace.
There is a really good documentary called "When Borat came to town" about how Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) recorded the "Kazakhstan" parts in a poor Roma village in Romania and lied to them what it was about. They were made complete fools of and didn't get paid a penny. He basically exploited a bunch of poor people for free and made millions on the film. Superb documentary, go watch it to get some perspective on Borat!
The fact he switched from Albania to Kazakhstan because he was afraid of insulting terrorists also should stop the nonsense about him being a brave comic.
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I'm sure he didn't. Your country is a mostly rural Putin-supporting dictatorship :D. Not a lot to damage further. AND Borat's purpose was making fun of USA.
Paella, bullfighting, flamenco...
Haggis & Whisky
Potato
We have a wall to our North to keep us out but most of us have no desire to move there.
Tequila
No, we are not Russian, no, we don't use the Russian alphabet, they use it, we created it and no, not every slavic-like name is Russian
Chewing gum is illegal
Curry
Mmmm baklava.
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Divorced India and got divorced by Bangladesh. Economy ain't great but we got nukes, which is all that matters apparently.
The internet loves to s**t all over my country, usually because they're bigots who judge all of us by the small minority of loudest, stupidest citizens.
That "small minority" won the elections of 2016 voting a xenophobic rapist. Its not a minority
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When you say the name of my country it makes you cold and hot at the same time!
A country with the biggest range of delicious apple varieties that chooses to eat jellied eels and cockle shells instead as a snack.
I have never in my life eaten jellied eels or cockle shells ☆shudder☆ I WILL however possibly punch someone for an in season Elstar if I'm hungry enough.
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"Everyone invades, and tries to erase us". (Hint: Between Germany and Russia....)
The only time we're mentioned in a Hollywood movie is if it's an action film and they're talking about terrorists
Oh no! Not Osyriraqatraqlebanmenjordarmenistan! That's the worst one! They won't let us have their oil and they write in doctor! (/s)
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I'm sad, that my country would be most easily recognised, if I just wrote "Hitler", even though we are so much more than that.
I know what we SHOULD be known for. At least 99% of us would think so: Bread! (It's part of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage) We have like 3000 "significantly different" recipes. It's the best in the world.
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We were ruled by british once , We got independence but lost all the love , And a lot of land ....... Now , People here fight every day because of religion.... And I think my country is the only country where people from every religion lives freely
The country Bernie Sanders most often tend to use as a poster child for his idea of a "Socialist utopia".
According to some other countries, We walk around on woodenshoes . We cycle a lot and in winter we go everywhere on ice skates. Our country has only 1 city. The rest are all villages that no one seems to know about.. And we're high on weed all the time.
Here's where I am from: "Sorry. Excuse me. Poutine, Eh ?"
Not a muslim country but u can literally find mosque like every 100m.
I would make a rude remark over my country but I have to get back to eating my burgers and hotdogs.
Ok so here's one. You might be oddballs when it comes to picking presidents but BEST BURGERS ON THE PLANET. And really in the grand scheme... what's more important?
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Divorced India and got divorced by Bangladesh. Economy ain't great but we got nukes, which is all that matters apparently.
The internet loves to s**t all over my country, usually because they're bigots who judge all of us by the small minority of loudest, stupidest citizens.
That "small minority" won the elections of 2016 voting a xenophobic rapist. Its not a minority
Load More Replies... When you say the name of my country it makes you cold and hot at the same time!
A country with the biggest range of delicious apple varieties that chooses to eat jellied eels and cockle shells instead as a snack.
I have never in my life eaten jellied eels or cockle shells ☆shudder☆ I WILL however possibly punch someone for an in season Elstar if I'm hungry enough.
Load More Replies... "Everyone invades, and tries to erase us". (Hint: Between Germany and Russia....)
The only time we're mentioned in a Hollywood movie is if it's an action film and they're talking about terrorists
Oh no! Not Osyriraqatraqlebanmenjordarmenistan! That's the worst one! They won't let us have their oil and they write in doctor! (/s)
Load More Replies... I'm sad, that my country would be most easily recognised, if I just wrote "Hitler", even though we are so much more than that.
I know what we SHOULD be known for. At least 99% of us would think so: Bread! (It's part of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage) We have like 3000 "significantly different" recipes. It's the best in the world.
Load More Replies... We were ruled by british once , We got independence but lost all the love , And a lot of land ....... Now , People here fight every day because of religion.... And I think my country is the only country where people from every religion lives freely
The country Bernie Sanders most often tend to use as a poster child for his idea of a "Socialist utopia".
According to some other countries, We walk around on woodenshoes . We cycle a lot and in winter we go everywhere on ice skates. Our country has only 1 city. The rest are all villages that no one seems to know about.. And we're high on weed all the time.
Here's where I am from: "Sorry. Excuse me. Poutine, Eh ?"
Not a muslim country but u can literally find mosque like every 100m.
I would make a rude remark over my country but I have to get back to eating my burgers and hotdogs.
Ok so here's one. You might be oddballs when it comes to picking presidents but BEST BURGERS ON THE PLANET. And really in the grand scheme... what's more important?
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