- 11 Sep 2006 20:26
#965529
We all know the usual stereotypes for people from various countries: Americans are fat, Russians are drunks, Mexicans are good dancers, Germans are cold, ... ect.
A friend of mine sent me this link to a chart painted in 1725 that shows characteristics of various european countries.
http://www.garten-eden.org/res.php?action=tafel
It's in German so I couldnt understand all of it,(maybe if you understand German you could translate more of it for us) but what I could read was pretty funny.
The most interesting description was for France. It says that their science is for war, their love is war, they spend their time betraying eachother, and their lives end in war. All this militaristic description and the picture of the french guy looks like some dandy with silk stockings and a wig.
Other funny descriptions were the engslish end their lives by drownding, Russians die in the snow, Turks die by being betrayed, and Germans die from booze (my favorite
)
Whoever made this gave the Germans a pretty good description, and gave the Turks the worst. Germans are described as funny, their land as good, their characteristics as very good, spending their time drinking (that's still the same i guess), and the animal that represents them is a lion. Turks are described as wearing feminine clothes, being ruled by a tyrant, and diseased. Their animal is a cat.
Another funny thing was English religion was described as "changing like the moon".
A friend of mine sent me this link to a chart painted in 1725 that shows characteristics of various european countries.
http://www.garten-eden.org/res.php?action=tafel
It's in German so I couldnt understand all of it,(maybe if you understand German you could translate more of it for us) but what I could read was pretty funny.
The most interesting description was for France. It says that their science is for war, their love is war, they spend their time betraying eachother, and their lives end in war. All this militaristic description and the picture of the french guy looks like some dandy with silk stockings and a wig.
Other funny descriptions were the engslish end their lives by drownding, Russians die in the snow, Turks die by being betrayed, and Germans die from booze (my favorite
)
Whoever made this gave the Germans a pretty good description, and gave the Turks the worst. Germans are described as funny, their land as good, their characteristics as very good, spending their time drinking (that's still the same i guess), and the animal that represents them is a lion. Turks are described as wearing feminine clothes, being ruled by a tyrant, and diseased. Their animal is a cat.
Another funny thing was English religion was described as "changing like the moon".
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So cheese-eating surrender monkeys are actually cheese-eating warmonger monkeys?
No comment... it would be too easy.
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