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A Map of the World According to America
by Brooke Dowd Sacco
You might remember this USA stereotype map, in which one American designer poked fun at his own country. Well this map does one better. The World According to the USA Map takes shots at the entire world from an American (civilized world) point of view. Courtesy of a project titled, “Mapping Stereotypes,” some of them are awfully mean, while others are only mean if you’re very sensitive and/or crazy patriotic. Like Italy=Godfathers, Romania=Dracula, Turkey=Thanksgiving Dinner. Read at your own risk.
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Here is a map made by actual Americans, though it was never said what part of the Americas they are from. I presume the United States, mainly because people have the weird notion that if you are from Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, or other countries in the Americas you are not really American.
I don’t get the vegitarians one for canada, although that might be cus im from portland which is pretty much 70% vegans so no one really makes fun of people like that except for ourselves, yep. And how is canada and mexico and brazil part of Anerica?
@DB I shall assume you are not joking and ask you to say what continents Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Chile are apart of…
I love how foreigners will so quickly bash America and Americans yet it is quite common for people from any country located in South, Central or North America to want to be identified as “American”. This point usually pops up only after you’ve been goaded into an argument about governmental policy and been ridiculed for your “evil ways”. If you refer to an American any member of the entire world population will think of the US, nothing else. Even if you think it is technically errant (which it is not) it is a widely accepted nomenclature. You are identified by your country of origin– not your continent. Therefore people from the United States of AMERICA– are Americans. People from CANADA are Canadians. People From CHILE are Chileans and so forth. To put it like a true American “Quit yer snivellin’”.
FUCK YOU!! MOTHER FUCKERS GRINGOS
LOL!!!
Most Americans would not be able to get even as accurate asthis
Canadian/Canuck speaking here
gotta agree with DB about not understanding the vegetarian part about Canada…that’s a really odd, yet dumb name…so however did the map should realize that there are Canadians outside of Vancouver, which sounds like the only place they must have been to…or likely someone told them…and seriously, if they were only in BC, they should have at least come up with something to do with marijuana
Everyone disrespects the USa – just quietly. It’s shallow, mean, money grabbing, decietful, porn soaked, hey they even have a foul term they use, it’s motherf**cker. Such a nice place !!
I just saw the post above by rosito. See what i mean ! ???
Charlie: go search what a pars pro toto means. Don’t blame other countries because yours was not quite as creative when they came up with a name and instead opted to hijack the name of an entire continent universally described as such on geography and maritime maps.
I think the biggest joke in this picture is an average American being able to identify more than 2 countries on a world map.
This is really funny but I can’t read all the labels. Any way of getting a read out or list of the country labels?
I come from a cosmopolitan and metropolitan place, which was the biggest city of he world in 1975 -hint, in the so-called Third World, and yet when I was at an English boarding school in the 1970s these supposedly cultured educated people asked me if I rode a donkey to school and if we had refrigerators and air-conditioning. Willful ignorance comes from discrimination and racism which is found eveywhere.
Excuse YOU L, N, and Lance… You might like to fancy yourselves as intellectually superior to us in the U.S. but your complete ignorance of history belies that point. I, am an AMERICAN, and I can name most countries on earth and their capitals and largest cities. Geography was my favorite subject. And the reason some Americans might be ignorant of geography is because our country is so huge and rich most don’t HAVE to care about the world. And about that “America” thing you all love to snipe about. BLAME YOURSELVES! The rest of the world started calling the British colonies America LONG BEFORE THE USA EXISTED! We didn’t start that, you ignorant toadstools. We didn’t “hijack” it, as Lance falsely claims. It was started long before we declared independence. It was long ago accepted that America primarily referred to the British Colonies ONLY. It was FAR from “universally” accepted on maritime maps, sorry. So you see Lance, it really IS other countries’ fault you ignorant hack. You better rethink your supposed intelligence… And there is NO continent called America, there are two geographically different continents, one called North America, and one called South America (duh). You are also in the wrong James. The porn industry is THRIVING all over the world and I bet you would be shocked at how much Chinese people gamble and what their companies do for money. Also, Americans didn’t invent the word MF. That comes from the southern European regions and was the worst insult one can imagine. In any case, blacks and Hispanics have adopted that very strongly (what does that tell you about the character of these people and their ability to maintain civilization? Probably nothing). So in short, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let everyone THINK you a fool that it is to open it and REMOVE all doubt!!
I guess insults against Americans are allowed here, but not the other way around. I guess that’s why my other comment got rejected. I’ll try again with a more mature tone. I live in the USA and I can name pretty much every country and it’s capital and largest city. I always loved geography and history. And Lance, it wasn’t us that started calling the USA America. It was Europeans. The name America came to symbolize the British colonies long before our independence. So you see, it really WAS other countries’ fault that we are called America. On another hand, there really is NO continent called America. There are two, one North America and the other South America. The vast majority of the world calls the USA America. If you’ll look up the word America at Wikipedia it will give you some idea for researching how the term came about. And James, just a few corrections, pornography is booming worldwide, China’s corporations are the dirtiest, and the word mother****** was not invented in the USA, sorry. Shouting ad hominem insults against Americans is not a debate tactic and does nothing to demonstrate your opinions.
Thanks Lance. I actually expected someone to comeback with that way sooner, but now is good too I guess. You people are more desperate to be known as “american” than vegans are anxious to let people know how great they are. Thanks Again for helping me to prove my point. Also, flippant insults tend to weaken an argument. Just something to keep in mind.
P.S. I can’t speak for the rest of the….Americans..in….. America but I could name at least a few more than two. My only question is: Why would I ever want to?
One final point before I let this go for good (rather than waste my time worrying about anti-American internet trolling/bashing from people I will never know)… The name of our country is not “United States” nor is it “America.” The name of it is “United States of America. In the early days, the Founders referred themselves mostly by the state they lived in… Virginian, New Yorker, Pennsylvanian, Vermonter, Marylander, etc… By the way, do you guys also hate the E.U.??? Or is it only the U.S.A. that’s wrong about everything??? I mean let’s face it… They weren’t creative enough to call their organization anything unique and they hijacked the name Europe…
I’m a savage?