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Sep 4, 2017 8:01 AM

SirAventine

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Source:

Website:
Tsvetkov, Yanko. “Atlas of Prejudice.” Atlas of Prejudice, 12 Dec. 2014, https://atlasofprejudice.com/.

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Tsvetkov, Yanko. Atlas of Prejudice. Createspace Independent, 2014.

Ireland is wrong in a lot of these.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Last time someone told us Finns our food was bad they got an award winning pizza named after them.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Scandinavia is part of Vodka Europe? HAH, no.

8 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

Denmark.... Lol vodka drinkers. No we drink beer man.......

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

This wrong on so many levels

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Oh boy, where do I begin....

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

#14 If you think Northern Europeans are all quiet, you haven't met the Dutch.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

This got weird and offensive real slow

8 years ago | Likes 88 Dislikes 3

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8 years ago | Likes 51 Dislikes 0

Quality shitpost, +1

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Spain is revolutionary and rich? HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA (I'm a Spaniard)

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

"Tomato Europe/Potato Europe" is my favorite.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

It's the only sensical one.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I think the olive oil one is right too.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#12:part of Germany being lazy? COME ON!

8 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 4

The greeks work a lot but their economy is shit

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Okay, how does the writer of this thing, a bulgarian, get this so wrong, no one here can fix their fucking sink

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Religious map is wrong.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Religion* is wrong.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

Like almost all those maps are wrong!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

these should be switched completely.

8 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 2

Exactly, russia is extremly traditional

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Agreed, there must have been a terrible mistake.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Finland is beer Europe, not vodka

8 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 4

Both

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Koska et ole kossusta kuullutkaan.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 4

Jostain kumman syystä jengi kuitenkin juo vitusti enemmän kaljaa ku kossua

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

No bisse on kyllä paljon yleisempää kun kossu

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ei ole vodkaa.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

Kyllä se on vodkaa. Suomessa käytetään sanaa viina, mutta maailmalle myytävä on nimeomaan "Koskenkorva vodka" ja tasan samaa tuotetta.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

No näköjään EU:n mukaan on, mutta suomalaisittain taas ei. Varsin erikoista.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Is north Italy richer than south Italy ?

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Famously so

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Northern Italy is much richer than the South. That's why they made a party called Lega Nord and tried to divide the country in two.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Prejudice? This is pretty fuckin' acurate for where I live. *Opens beer and enjoys bad food*

8 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 1

UK! Or northern Germany, Netherlands, or...Iceland ?

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Central-Western Germany, close to the Netherlands. Good guess!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Ah yes. I lived in Hessen for half dozen years. Berlin for 3 but that was before the wall came down. I still do miss a nice fest brat, more

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

in #6 it felt vad seeing denmark as a part of 'vodka europe'. we drink tonnes of beer man

8 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

Yeah, that curve is drawn pretty badly. It should come down around the middle of Finland and curl around Poland.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Same for Germany

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Not to mention our many breweries, definitely NOT vodka europe.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

More than half of this is bullshit.

8 years ago | Likes 125 Dislikes 2

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

At least 3, 6, 9, 12, 13, 15, 17, and 18, maybe more, are complete bullshit.

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

unless you make a simplified, overgeneralized graphic for that statement in 2 seconds, I can't believe that statement

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I live in Austria, a region that is often very close to the dividing lines, and many are just wrong. Most prominent alcohol and religion.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

the other half is just shit.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You should make a graph picturing so.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Italy and Greece new Europe??? XD

8 years ago | Likes 54 Dislikes 2

The balkans in general

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Also Ireland. It was in the dark ages until the '50s.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

These are all extreme oversimplifications, some are plainly ignorant and wrong.

8 years ago | Likes 63 Dislikes 8

Really, do you think a chart that separates Europe into "bad cuisine" and "good cuisine" is oversimplifying/simply wrong?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

'Some'?

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

France in most of these:

8 years ago | Likes 258 Dislikes 2

I seem to relate to France... never knew it

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As a Swiss I am also rather confused about pretty much all of these

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's what happens when a country has culture and history, you wouldn't understand

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 8

Woah, @Gofukcyourself; username relevant.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

my god... he knew something

8 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

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8 years ago (deleted Dec 1, 2025 2:24 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Holy shit I need to watch that show...

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah France and Germany were cut in half in most of these maps.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Pourquoi pas les deux?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

A lot of these (at least 3, 6, 9, 12, 13, 15, 17, and 18, maybe more) are complete bullshit.

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I'm confused by the idea that the French are sexually repressed.

8 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

French here, and it's simple. Be a romantic who can't separate sexe from love, and don't forget to be emotionally reppressed as well.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I've been living in France for 13 years. I see no evidence of sexual repression.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The french culture isn't particularly sexually repressed (though it used to be much more relaxed in the 70-80's), but some individuals are

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Uh I'm Irish and I can tell you that we are both sexually AND emotionally repressed thank you very much!

8 years ago | Likes 1344 Dislikes 0

i question both of those things

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Haha came to say exact same thing

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Ya, that's the entire brown region. The idea that the Germans are LESS sexually repressed than Italians... is hilarious.

8 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

same in poland

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Greedy!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

and definitely not protestant. lol

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And Catholic.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You took the words right out of my head and typed them into "reality"

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Same in Iceland

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Finland in the team for sure. But on the other hand, I'd be more convinced we can fix the damn sink by ourselves at least...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thank you.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I am 78% Irish an can confirm it is true.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Also Ireland belongs in the good cuisine Europe

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 7

Accept your fate and embrace your fellow bad cuisine europeans! :D

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Solely for Supermacs

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

When a beer can be both milk & bread, I agree!

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Hence the drinking.

8 years ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 0

Last, catholic, loud, revolutionary as shit AND religious. What goddam unionist wrote this shite?

8 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 0

This comment.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Also both protestant and Catholic! Magical wee country

8 years ago | Likes 244 Dislikes 1

And Atheist, according to these maps.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Also loud, deafening and quiet with respect to the number of Guinnesses we've ingested

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I for one love that they put Ireland as Protestant

8 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 7

Little not wee. Honest to fuck I hate that. Tírín do bhí tú ag iarraidh an gaelainn. But that would be weird and not used.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I wasn't really.. I was making a bit of a joke and that's all. I've got ancestry from knockaun, I'm not just another random idiot.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wtf, we love beer in denmark. Were the fucking beer capitol

8 years ago | Likes 67 Dislikes 11

Easy there cowboy. As far as I know we have the highest density of breweries over here in Bamberg, Germany. 1 for less than 5000 people =)

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

All of this is rather cute. Just look at who drinks the most beer per capita and then come back - guy living in Czech republic

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Yeah this is bullshit. Austria ranks 4th in beer consumption per head and we're marked as a wine country.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I mean... We drink a lot of wine too, but still.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fun fact; Danish people consume more wine than beer(same for Swedish people), somehow Norwegians are the ones to consume more beer than wine

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Can confirm, have taken boat to buy cheap, 24+ packs of beer from denmark before.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

wait... Denmark (or scandinavia in general) and cheap beer in one sentence...?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well, cheap relatively speaking. Don't know what constitutes cheap in the rest of the world. :v It was beer made to be bought in bulk 1/2

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

and specifically targeting the swedish that took the boat, commonly to buy beer.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

As a German: That's cute.

8 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 8

Pff, you're known for your fancy teaparty beer, we have beer on tap mawfuggah

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

Your refundable deposits aren't that high. You should be able to afford bottles.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's Belgium. You might want to check where large quantities of Carlsberg are actually made.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

as a Dutchman, sorry, but we already have a holy trinity of beer, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 3

The Dutch's gift to the beer loving world is La Trappe Quadrupel.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And Hertog Jan!!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And Heineken! /s

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

The same in Poland. We were vodka people back then, under soviet domination. Since, idk, middle 90s, we are definitely beer (57%) people.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Which beer type do you guys from Belgium/Germany/Netherlands prefer?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My experience Is you love your wheat beer where further north black lagers/porters are preferred, thus it's a matter of preference is it not

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Every town or village has their own preference.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#21 Ah yes, Finland is the country of trolls, even the vikings knew it.

8 years ago | Likes 243 Dislikes 0

do not worry about the trolls, it's Mårran or Mörkö you have to be afraid of

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ebin

8 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Rāšid ibn Ḥammād

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 10

Back when Greece and Turkey were still a world superpower.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

FINLAND DOESN'T FUCKING EXIST

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 8

Makes sense we'd be trolls, then?

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

As a Finn, can confirm.

8 years ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 0

What are you doing talking to people? Go back to your cave

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

We are in our caves, thats why you only see us in the internet! Until its winter

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I've spent this summer under my bridge, been feeding on flames and fish, it's been a nice change.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I love the Fins, every Fin I've known was an introvert with a "not taking shit from anyone" attitude.

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Finn* Please stay corrected or stop writing. It hurts my supremely schooled (free of charge) brains and I have no aspirin in this cave.

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

You can tell a russian made thes maps. That last one of Russia based on West opinion should be just a giant single color lableded "nothing"

8 years ago | Likes 118 Dislikes 6

Well, at least for Americans. I could maybe come up with four quasi-regions.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Yes but for the "west" nomenclature in this case they are pointing at us and bit

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yep

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I think it should have said "created the AK-47" over the whole thing.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

not everyone in "west" are retarded, someone have geography classes in school

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 6

Not about IQ mostly about not caring

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I dont know what part of the west you are from, but the education system must be shit.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

Again not being able to read the context of the joke makes me wonder about your education. Less about actual identifiers more about pride

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Also the irony that you don't realize it's an atlas of prejudice and that my note of "nothing" would suit so damn well is astounding

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The western part should say "Communist," but, yeah, "nothing" over the rest of it.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Actaually, all communists are at the US now. Brighton beach is a national park where USSR is carefully preserved.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yes all of them..... Every single one none in China or anywhere ever in any part of Russia

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm not sure how good you are at Geography, but China is a little bit too far away from the Europe to be considered as a part of it.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But guess what half of Russia is in....

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not to be pedantic, but Italy is NOT sexually repressed, and in Spain, it DOES rain, mainly on the plain.

8 years ago | Likes 142 Dislikes 12

Dude, totally pedantic. Carry on.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

I dunno.. The sicilian love for their mothers could keep Freud pretty happy

8 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

This lady is ON IT!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What lady

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Uhh... not... you? Some... lady... over... there

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

That's actually one of the few true things here. Italians are utterly and completely sexually repressed. Take it from an italian

8 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 5

You have a few very strong outliers, and they're pulling up the average.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well,maybe u are?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I think past of the problem of Italy's sexual repression is that most people especially men live at home until they're married.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

As an Italian, mate, we are very, VERY sexually repressed. Took me moving countries to realise that libido is healthy and ok.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 3

Florence must be in another country, then.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Or maybe you come from a very catholic family and you think it must be the same for all of us. Or just ugly.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oh wow really? I always thought of Italians as oversexualised, if anything. I always imagined them humping everything.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Oversexualisation and repression aren't mutually exclusive

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He is probably from the south. Hopelessly catholic over there

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Man the more I find out about other peoples the more I want to find out.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Esattamente quello che è successo anche a me! C'è un approccio molto malato alle tematiche sessualità in Italia secondo me.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 6

Mi sa che vivevate in paesucci molto religiosi. Nelle grandi città altro che repressione!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Roma, ed è la peggiore. A Milano va un attimo meglio effettivamente

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Non immaginavo. Le romane che conosco mi sono sembrate molto moderne in quell'aspetto.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Non immaginavo. Le romane che conosco mi sono sembrate molto moderne in quell'aspetto.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Italy has sex in cars with papers on the windows cause you cant do it at home and cant wear condoms.. although you had that porngirl in parl

8 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 3

Sex in cars with papers on the windows? What 70s movie made you think that? :D

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Seen it 3-4 times when I've been there. Last time was 8 years ago though.. Never seen it in any other countries

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Was it in a particular area? Asking before I never noticed it

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Can't wear condoms or -won't- wear condoms?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Cant ofc. The pope will spank your dick off you otherwise.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Spiky Italian dicks. Condoms don't work.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Jesus the Italians are really taking a pounding in this thread.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

They don't fit XD

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Fall off often? :D

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nope, too small lol.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#3 England's not revolutionary? #10 Ireland is Catholic

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Norway isn't depressed

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Belgium is Catholic too! Almost no protestants here.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm having a hard time understanding what's revolutionary and what isn't according to this map

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So are Poland and Lithuania.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

In Sweden you don't go to church on a regular basis, you don't pray. You don't read the bible and so on. Protestant? No, not even close.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They have an entire brand of Catholicism named after them!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

1) I wonder what percentage of Irish Catholics actually believe in transubstantiation. If they don't then they are technically Protestants.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

2) Of course that is oversimplifying things but hey the OP charts started it.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Protestant and Catholic are cultural terms as much as they are theological, especially wrt Ireland

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

And we are both Emotionally and Sexually Repressed

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Yeah, you shoot and blow up the Protestants.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 5

Just because my name's Liam doesn't mean I'm Irish lol

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

aye de daye de doh, I take it some people didn't like my reply!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A lot of these (at least 3, 6, 9, 12, 13, 15, 17, and 18, maybe more) are complete bullshit.

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 2

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8 years ago (deleted Sep 5, 2017 7:41 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

The Industrial Revolution did kiiiind of establish THE MODERN WORLD.

8 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Ah I thought they meant technology wise not fighty wise

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That would be even more nonsense as A) UK has plenty of that B) French revolution, Napoleon. Kiiiiind of a big deal.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

INDUSTRIAL Revolution, dude!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And half of France apparently isn't either.

8 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

Germany is completely mixed from state to state between protestant/catholic

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Republic of Ireland is Catholic, Northern Ireland is Protestant.

8 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 15

False

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

48% Protestant, 45% Catholic, 7% other

8 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 1

"Northern Ireland is Protestant" seems like a good way to get yourself stabbed TBH

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Not for long. Will breed them out

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 5

Someone tell the artist that the SEVERAL "English Revolution(s)" basically CREATED western capitalism and modern parliamentary democracy.

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8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

I think they meant actual, violent revolutions. We had a civil war though that created the modern U.K. Government

8 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 2

And a number of jacobite wars after that. Don't follow House Stuart, they're no good a uprisings.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

30 years war in cental europe?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Combative revolutions aren't binary. That historians universally call our civil war(s) "Revolutions" ought to count for something.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

I like to think because we where civil about our civil wars we are better than the rabble who have to resort to violence haha

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

the war of the three kingdoms was really brutal, not much civility from the various English factions

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

pssssssr I like to think so too but it's improper to say it in a public forum where the rest of the world can see how haughty we really are

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1