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How To Irritate Europeans In Just One Sentence

March 3, 2023 34 Comments

How To Irrtate Europeans In Just One Sentence

Map created by sigmagfx, based on this reddit thread.

The map above shows how you can easily irritate various Europeans in just one sentence. These include:

  • Austria: Are you Germans?
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina: Muslim Serbs
  • Bulgaria: Still use the Russian alphabet?
  • Croatia: Catholic Serbs
  • Czech Republic: Are you eastern Europeans?
  • England: Los Malvinas son Argentinas
  • Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania: Baltics? You’re Russian Right?
  • France: American wines are better
  • Hungary: Are you hungry hahaha
  • Germany: This video is not available in your country.
  • Greece: Macedonia for the Macedonians
  • Ireland: Southern Ireland
  • Italy: I like pasta with ketchup.
  • Macedonia: Southern Serbs
  • Netherlands: ‘Sinterklaas’ is racist
  • Norway: Are you the western part of Sweden?
  • Poland: Polish death camps
  • Portugal: Do you speak Brazilian right? (runner up: ‘ur basically spain lmao’)
  • Romania: Beautiful country, I love Budapest
  • Scotland: Where in England is that?
  • Serbia: Tesla is a Croat
  • Slovenia: Alpine Serbs
  • Spain: So you’re latino? (also: ‘Tortilla? Those used in Burritos?’ and ‘Ah! Toros, flamenco, paella. Right?’)
  • Sweden: Rape capital of the world
  • Switzerland: Belgian chocolate is the best!
  • Turkey: Can you translate this Arabic sentence?

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  • Atlas of Prejudice: Mapping Stereotypes, Vol. 1

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Comments

  1. dcatela says

    February 27, 2017 at 11:01 pm

    ahahah “do you speak brazilian?” You bet that irritates a portuguese!

    Reply
  2. Dawid says

    March 2, 2017 at 6:15 pm

    “Polish death camps” – This term is unfair for Poles and is politically incorrect, even if for joke.

    Reply
    • ewa says

      April 14, 2017 at 3:56 pm

      that was my first thought, as well, and I’m not kind of radical or nationalist

      Reply
    • Marcin Zarębski says

      April 14, 2017 at 8:52 pm

      Point proven then. It is the most irritating thing for a Pole.

      Reply
      • ewa says

        April 19, 2017 at 6:39 am

        Yes, it is tagged with humour

        Reply
    • Caroline says

      April 2, 2022 at 12:01 pm

      That was the whole point of the post…

      Reply
  3. ewa says

    April 14, 2017 at 4:09 pm

    it was absolutely not brilliant. in case of Poland, the term shouldn’t be publihed at all, espcially as a joke! and there was many cases where institutions were obliged to apologise for using the term!

    Reply
    • Marcin Zarębski says

      April 14, 2017 at 8:53 pm

      Nobody said it was meant to be a joke.

      Reply
      • ewa says

        April 19, 2017 at 6:40 am

        yes, it is tagged with humour

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    • Alan Robert Tyson says

      April 18, 2017 at 6:20 pm

      The point is to irritate not be politically correct. Saying the Falklands are Argentinian makes my blood boil when our men and women died for nothing. And that’s the point of this article.

      Reply
  4. Bastipil Von Grim says

    August 11, 2017 at 1:48 pm

    It’ not brilliant at all, it’s just dumb dumb dumbidumb!

    Reply
  5. 歳納京子 says

    August 12, 2017 at 10:30 pm

    as a Finnish person “you guys all look Asian lolol” really, really irritates me…

    Reply
  6. ILoveOdessa.eu says

    August 13, 2017 at 5:47 am

    “We love THE Ukraine!” /facepalm

    Reply
  7. Paulo Baptista says

    August 14, 2017 at 9:34 am

    “Do you speak Brazilian right?” damn trying so hard to make a joke. But in the end just shows ignorance

    Reply
    • Charles Souza says

      August 28, 2017 at 7:01 pm

      Almost all shows ignorance. But it’s just joke

      Reply
    • Alessandro says

      November 16, 2017 at 2:03 pm

      point proven, then

      Reply
  8. Jan Marek says

    August 15, 2017 at 8:56 pm

    Slovakia – Upper Hungary, right?

    Reply
  9. Miguel Portela says

    August 21, 2017 at 9:13 am

    Well for me would be much worst the runner up!!!
    Portuguese from Brasil and Portuguese from Portugal are extremely similar so at least i don’t see much problem in it!

    Reply
  10. Maikel Lourenssen says

    August 22, 2017 at 6:09 am

    What about Belgium?

    Reply
    • Alain r says

      May 15, 2018 at 9:30 am

      Annoy a Belgian by calling fried potato sticks ‘French fries’.

      Reply
    • Me says

      August 15, 2018 at 7:19 pm

      Is Belgium really a country?

      Reply
  11. Jonas says

    August 23, 2017 at 9:48 am

    It makes me want to punch this map.

    Reply
  12. Diego Andrés Acosta says

    August 25, 2017 at 9:00 am

    Is «Las» instead of «Los Malvinas son argentinas» . 😉

    Reply
  13. petiar says

    October 24, 2017 at 7:23 am

    Slovakia has got the worst offence here.

    Reply
  14. Matjaz says

    May 16, 2018 at 6:23 am

    For Slovenes, Alpine Croats is even “better” than Alpine Serbs, haha.

    Reply
  15. H-C Poulsen says

    November 15, 2018 at 6:20 pm

    Denmark, is that the Capital of Holland?

    Reply
  16. Viet Ta says

    December 4, 2018 at 9:57 pm

    No one can irritate Finns?

    Reply
    • Bruce says

      January 2, 2021 at 2:51 am

      You’re Scandinavian, right?

      Reply
  17. Eduard says

    August 27, 2019 at 11:22 am

    Northern Ireland: Is your capital Dublin right?

    Reply
  18. Bob says

    May 14, 2020 at 8:43 am

    Love how triggered the Poles are.

    Reply
  19. Paul says

    August 27, 2020 at 8:29 am

    Hmm, if you want to get the blood boiling, for The Netherlands ‘Sinterklaas’ is racist’, that does not quite hit the mark. It would be more effective to say ‘Zwarte Piet is racist’.

    Reply
  20. John says

    January 2, 2021 at 1:21 pm

    French: Do you speak English?

    Reply
  21. Dan says

    January 3, 2021 at 5:00 pm

    The one for England is a tad outdated, but you’re spot on for Wales. Not a real country so doesn’t need a sentence 😂

    Reply
  22. Evan says

    November 7, 2022 at 4:32 pm

    Are you a German, will for shore anger an Austrian

    Reply

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