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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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35 Most Interesting Responses To "Without Telling The Name Of Your Country, Where Do You Live?" United States of America. We're not good at following instructions.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Clearly - the instructions were "without telling the name of the country..."

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35 Most Interesting Responses To "Without Telling The Name Of Your Country, Where Do You Live?" "Watch out, mate, there's a shark."

"No worries, one of the crocs'll get him."

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35 Most Interesting Responses To "Without Telling The Name Of Your Country, Where Do You Live?" I would literally die without my cheese, my wine and my baguette

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35 Most Interesting Responses To "Without Telling The Name Of Your Country, Where Do You Live?" People normally say we speak Spanish.

We don't.

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35 Most Interesting Responses To "Without Telling The Name Of Your Country, Where Do You Live?" We come from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun and the hot springs flow!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Iceland is my first thought. Second was that these could be lyrics from Led Zeppelin’s The Immigrant Song.

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35 Most Interesting Responses To "Without Telling The Name Of Your Country, Where Do You Live?" My wife is a teacher and they are going to start wearing tennis shoes this year to be better prepared for active shooters.

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35 Most Interesting Responses To "Without Telling The Name Of Your Country, Where Do You Live?" Fries, cycling, chocolate and beer, also waffles and comics

NBfoxC137 , irrational_cat Report

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35 Most Interesting Responses To "Without Telling The Name Of Your Country, Where Do You Live?" We think we are better than everyone because we discovered democracy and haven't done much since.

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35 Most Interesting Responses To "Without Telling The Name Of Your Country, Where Do You Live?" My country doesn’t show up on the map most of the time and we love Rugby

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35 Most Interesting Responses To "Without Telling The Name Of Your Country, Where Do You Live?" We invented one of the most well known and versatile plastic toy products. Which are good for both kids and adults.

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35 Most Interesting Responses To "Without Telling The Name Of Your Country, Where Do You Live?" Borat damaged our international image

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35 Most Interesting Responses To "Without Telling The Name Of Your Country, Where Do You Live?" We have a wall to our North to keep us out but most of us have no desire to move there.

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35 Most Interesting Responses To "Without Telling The Name Of Your Country, Where Do You Live?" 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

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

BULGARIA! We invented the Cyrillic:) Our names sound like Russian names and no, we are not Russians:)

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Christina Hvurchilova
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow, I never expected to see an entry from Bulgaria. I love it, great work.

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Miss Cris
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We say "yes" and "no" with our head the opposite than the rest of Europe !

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Russell Bowman
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Didn't St. Cyril, a Greek monk, create the cyrillic alphabet in (what is now northern) Macedonia

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was created by two monks (Kiril and Method) for the bulgarian King Boris II. It was common in these times that "only who writes will stay", so the king hired profesionals to make an alphabeth for the bulgarian people and language (which is crazy, look it up for yourself). Russians use it too, but it was invented for bulgarians.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Uses Russian alphabet, but not Russian.. gotta be more specific. The Cyrillic script was named for a Greek, St. Cyril, who created a new script to help spread the bible (and literacy) to Slavic tribes... although the script they actually wrote is now called Glagolitic script. The actual script called Cyrillic was actually created a couple of later, but was in the spirit of Sts Cyril, so accredited to him by... BULGARIA???!!!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was always accredited by Bulgaria - because it was created by demand of the Bulgarian king to spread the bible to Slavic tribes (as you said). The king invited the saints in the Bulgarian country to continue their scholarship, and gave them this specific order. It's not just St. Kiril, they are two brothers - Cyril and Methodius. Methodius first created the Glagolitc script, but it was too complicated and rejected, his brother Cyril improved it a lot to create the cyrilic script and be more similar with the latin alphabet without losing the specifics of the slavic laguages. That's why they are sacred for Bulgarians and there is a national holiday devoted to them. Russians took the alphabet as a gift after they helped Bulgaria to be free from ottoman (now Turkey) slavery which continued 500 years and stopped the ottomans to colonize Europe.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i have no clue but something is telling me Uzbekistan

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Mary Rose Kent
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think Estonia uses the Latin alphabet. I know for sure that Estonia, Finland and Hungary is one of the smaller language groups.

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35 Most Interesting Responses To "Without Telling The Name Of Your Country, Where Do You Live?" It's citizens started two world wars, managed to blame a neighbor both times

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Austria- Hungarian Empire WW1... Hitler was Austrian WW2..?

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Mmmm baklava.

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