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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

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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

Mmmm baklava.

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

Baklava is everywhere. Marocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, Iraq etc. Every arab country eats baklava. This needs more information.

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

mmmmm balaclava is what i read that as. balaclavas are clearly delicious food.

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

Nope. Baklava is Turkish! One of the most popular sweets during the Ottoman Empire, and still as popular as ever. (and no wonder since it's freaking delicious)

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

There is a community centre in London where they serve "Cypriot" coffee because if they called it either Greek or Turkish coffee all hell would break loose.

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

Assyria, Greece, Turkey, or any other middle eastern country. There are many forms of it and they are all good.

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

Greece, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt and many Balkan countries were under Ottoman rule for many years. Turkey shared a common history with Greece even in the Hellenistic period. We shared many of our dishes as well as traditions. It's pointless to discuss what belongs to whom.

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35 Most Interesting Responses To "Without Telling The Name Of Your Country, Where Do You Live?" We produce tons of cringey movies with zero plots every years

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Depending on which part of my country you ask this to, you will get an answer from a different langauge. Atleast 20+ different languages

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35 Most Interesting Responses To "Without Telling The Name Of Your Country, Where Do You Live?" 1# in suicide rating in EU

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

Me: quickly searches it up. Also me: types "Lithuania" like I'm a genius.

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#43

kids laugh when they hear the name of my capital city

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

Thailand. Reminds me of The Hangover 2 - "You're in Bangkok, there's a reason they don't call it Bangcunt."

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#46

Adidas pants make it easier to squat with your bros and bring you their respect.

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35 Most Interesting Responses To "Without Telling The Name Of Your Country, Where Do You Live?" Everyday, you can have a different kind of native fish readily available at any local fish market, and the whole year would go by without having to eat the same fish twice.

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35 Most Interesting Responses To "Without Telling The Name Of Your Country, Where Do You Live?" Hummus, schnitzel, and beaches. And everyone hates us for some reason

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

Not everyone "hates" you. But most nations think you were unfairly given land you didn't own, and since then have been attempting slow motion ethnic cleansing. It's not pretty

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In a country Trump referred to as a sh*th**e country

lmao, okay let me narrow it down a bit. We recently worn our first olympic medal after 29years.

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

Didn’t Trump refer to all countries outside the US as sh*th**e countries?

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Our prime minister apparently made global news for having diarrhea. This is very true.

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Three presidents

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

Bosnia and Herzegowina? One for Croats, one for Serbs and one for Muslims.

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World's Longest sea beach

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

Brazil. The Praia do Cassino is 254 kilometers (158 miles) long.

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