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America from a European perspective
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Surprisingly accurate.
Other than the upper peninsula lol
Yea not sure what's up with the upper peninsula. I feel like it's someone who actually knows Michigan and just wants to irritate Michiganders
Could still be a real European perspective. I've found a lot of people who are only casually familiar with North America will be able to tell you the broad cultural strokes and then one or two bizarrely specific facts. Like, "Oh yeah, America is all New York, Texas, California, Florida, and who could forget the iconic Egyptian Theatre of Boise, Idaho."
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European here, these are what different states or areas of the USA remind me of (like what's the first think I think of when I hear it's name):
- Southern states: right wing twats
- Alabama: incest
- Florida: gators and really, really weird news headlines
- Texas: stupidly large trucks, guns and cowboys
- Alaska: cold, that one goldrush
- California: expensive, liberal
- Ohio: those fucking memes
- Hawaii: warm, colonialism
- Mississippi: riverboats
- Washington: why the hell is the city of Washington not in Washington?
Washington: why the hell is the city of Washington not in Washington?
There's also Washington Island. It's nowhere near Washington state or DC. It's in Lake Michigan, and is part of Wisconsin, not Michigan.
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On that last point, George Washington is still considered the most popular president of the USA. In his own time he would come to cities and people (all of them) would swarm the streets. When the Constitution was signed Washington was in retirement, but the writers of the Constitution assumed Washington would be the first President. There were roughly 8 candidates running for the position, Washington wasn't one of them, and when Washington announced he would come out of retirement the other candidates dropped out of the running. Washington won the first election unanimously.
A lot of Europeans don't realize this, but the Constitution wasn't the first government of the new USA. First there was the Articles of Confederation which went from 1777-1789 so Washington had been gone for quite some time and was still so popular.
It's not at all surprising that it's one of the most popular landmark names in the US (street and city names).
Some other popular names include Lafayette, MLK, Lincoln, and Jackson, Jefferson, and Madison.
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Alaska: cold, that one goldrush
Hawaii: warm, colonialism
I think you know more about our history than we do
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Washington's name is everywhere because there was this guy named Washington and he did some cool things a couple hundred years ago.
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The blue one just needs to be switched to alcoholism and drugs. Then it's perfect.
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Pretty bad comparison
- size is irrelevant
- american states are provinces, not countries. how many americans know the provinces of Germany?
- identifying states when most of them are just rectangles is damn annoying
It's a fairly reasonable comparison.
Just trying to throw away the concept of size is probably the most unfair thing here. You are trying to change the conversation so your argument appears valuable. Then you kind of piss that attempt at goal post moving by claiming that while size is irrelevant, somehow shape is. What a strange move.
You make a good point on the US state vs Country comparison, I think that certainly plays a much larger part than size or even population. But if you wanted to argue that point, rather than dismiss relevant concepts or inserting ridiculous ones - you could rebut with a question like "can you name the subjects of the Russian Federation?" Or, if you are in a fighting mood (which...clearly), you could just respond that American exceptionalism has them overvaluing the relevance of US States on the global scale.
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yeah, but for example: Luxembourg - the last grand duchy in the world, one of four institutional seats of the european union, capital city is an UNESCO world heritage site, has a 1000 years of history.
Idaho - potatoes. wait... maybe it's Iowa? or Ohio?
edit: really seems like people can't take a joke, lmao
No one under a monarchy has actual pride in their people and country, why should we care that the city was founded from a royal whorehouse by people we're also descended from anyways?
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They put Detroit in the wrong spot
And yet there's nothing else in the UP, besides cold, and you will note it is a dark blue.
The Incest area is way too small. The Cowboy area is way too big.
I've always had this criticism of pornhub
TBH probably more accurate than an American perspective.
Sadly, Cowboy and New York are much smaller and incest is much larger.
As a European who doesn't know much about the states: This is pretty accurate. I would exchange gators for florida man and I don't know what the cars and crime one is but otherwise it's spot on.
Detroit Michigan, "motor city", is home to a lot of car manufacturers and also much crime.
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I'm surprised anyone there knows that the UP of Michigan exists. It's a sparcely populated area with low crime. Hunting, fishing, snowmobiling and drinking.
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They think Seattle is full of cowboys?
As a born Seattlite, all I can say is this town ain't big enough for the two of us pardner.
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I'd just like to point out that some European countries have higher rates of incest than the US.
Cousin marriage is also illegal in much of the US while it is legal in much of Europe.
In fact, if this is to be believed (not a clue how accurate this is), Spain, Portugal, and Italy (as well as Canada and Mexico) have higher rates of incest than any single state in the United States.
This is totally believable, but Europeans don't think that America is more incestuous than Europe. They think that that part of America is more incestuous than the rest of America.
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Eh, not far off
And where do the religious nuts go?
Nah, Cowboys are South.
Middle are "Religious Nutcases"
I'd change Florida to Disney World because that's the main reason anyone would get a passport to go to Florida.
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That's more what an American thinks a European perspective is.
As a European with a higher than average interest in North America, I can say with some confidence that Europeans don't think about the Upper Peninsula at all.
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I think this map was made by an American cos it's referencing cultural things that I don't know or care about.
Interesting that your perspective includes less incest than mine... And I live in Alabama!
Not entirely inaccurate...
Hawaii and Alaska are just ???
We forgot to tell Europe about those 2.
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incest needs to span further upward i think, but other than that it's a surprisingly accurate depiction of the US lolol
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