'Smelly people, 'commies' and 'dirty porn': Europe mapped by national stereotypes

[Blue_Tires]

Yanko Tsvetkov, a Bulgarian designer and illustrator living in London, has produced seven maps in which countries and regions are labelled according to the stereotypes of their inhabitants held by the people of other nationalities.

In a map titled Europe According to USA, Russia is blocked out in red and labelled "Commies" while France reads "Smelly People" and Germany reads "Dirty Porn". Britain is simply labelled: "Mummy".

In the map of Europe according to Britain, the mainland is labelled "Evil Federated Empire of Europe" while Ireland reads "Rascals" and Turkey is labelled "No Pork Meals Here". Click here to see a bigger version of this map.

Mr Tsvetkov, 33, said he was inspired to create the first map in the series during the gas row between Ukraine and Russia in 2009.

In the first map, titled Where I Live, Russia is labelled "Paranoid Oil Empire", while Ukraine is labelled "Gas Stealers".

The graphic designer said: "I created the first one in 2009 because at that time there was an energy crisis in Europe. I just created it to amuse my friends but when I put it up on my website so many people liked it that I decided to really focus on the project of mapping the stereotypes based on different places in Europe. I was surprised by the reaction because I never really expected it to take off like this."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/8013399/Smelly-people-commies-and-dirty-porn-Europe-mapped-by-national-stereotypes.html

http://alphadesigner.com/project-mapping-stereotypes.html






I know it's been around before, but I needed a laugh today

[Solly Mack]

1. I live in the land of Dirty Porn...as opposed to the clean porn everywhere else

LMAO

Thanks!

[snooper2]

2. We should do this for North America..

I'll start...

Mexico would be called cheap labor..

SouthEast U.S. called old people

Midwest called trailer park land

Canada would be called?

NY?

CA?

And of course somebody will come to this thread and be offended in 3...2...

[Gaedel]

5. There was always the old book

"Nine Nations of North America"

where the author divided North America 9and the Caribbean into nine "nations" based on interests:

Mex America
The Islands
Dixie
The Smokestack
The Empty Quarter
The Breadbasket
Ecotopia
New England
I think the ninth one was Quebec, but don't remember what he called it.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. South America according to Brazil:

[Blue_Tires]

10. awesome...

I was going to look for who had done other parts of the globe...

[joeybee12]

3. Sounds like The Onion's Atlas of the world...

stereotypes for every single country...and it's hilarious.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. WTF? WT fucking F? This was in the negatives? THIS?

Humorless assohles are humorless.

[supernova]

6. These are fun

Thanks.

:rofl:

[Wednesdays]

7. Bet ya that the people who think like that

can't even locate the countries on a map without help. :dunce:

[cowcommander]

9. The perfect European should be...