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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."

Turrubul_Kuruman , James St. John Report

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

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

Aren't most "Indian" takeaway recipes British, from immigrants making something to sell to us locals? I'm sure I read somewhere that things like tikka and jalfrezi are just made up names of dishes and not known in India?

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

India, Korea, and Japan are all curry countries. But mainly India, so ima go with....Andhra Pradesh?

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

Curry seriously?, Many other Asian countries eat curry, you could have used colours or bollywood or yoga because that's what everyone living outside of India associates with India....

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

UK more fittingly :D. But probably meant India. Most of mainstream "Indian" restaurant cuisine was actually invented in Britain or for Brits.

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

Thailand, China, and Japan all have curries, too. Thai's my favorite!

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

These are not curry ingredients. Curry doesn't imply a country.

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

"Curry"? That would be the UK you're describing then. Where the word is used to describe EVERYTHING in Indian cuisine because the colonists didn't bother to learn the different names for all the regional cuisines.

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Mmmm baklava.

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