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Oceania According to USA (2012)Enlarge/Buy print

Mainland USA According to Common Sense (2011)Enlarge/Buy print

Europe According to Austria (2012)Enlarge/Buy print

Europe According to Britain (2010)Enlarge/Buy print

Europe According to Bulgaria (2009)Enlarge/Buy print

Europe According to France (2009)Enlarge/Buy print

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Europe According to Germany (2010)Enlarge/Buy print

Europe According to Greece (2011)Enlarge/Buy print

Europe According to Italy (2009)Enlarge/Buy print

Europe According to Poland (2010)Enlarge/Buy print

Europe According to Russia (2010)Enlarge/Buy print

Europe According to Spain (2011)Enlarge/Buy print

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Europe According to Switzerland (2010)Enlarge/Buy print

Europe According to the Vatican (2010)Enlarge/Buy print

Europe According to Turkey (2010)Enlarge/Buy print

Europe According to Charles V (1555)Enlarge/Buy print

Europe According to Austria-Hungary (1914)Enlarge/Buy print

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Europe in January 2009Enlarge/Buy print

Europe According to the Future (2022)Enlarge/Buy print

Europe According to Gay Men (2010)Enlarge/Buy print

Europe According to Latin Americans (2012)Enlarge/Buy print

Europe According to Silvio Berlusconi (2011)Enlarge/Buy print

Europe According to UK Tories (2013)

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The Iberian Peninsula According to Spain (2011)Enlarge/Buy print

The World According to the Ancient GreeksEnlarge/Buy print

The World According to Ancient ChinaEnlarge/Buy print

The World According to the Middle AgesEnlarge/Buy print

The Flat Earth According to US RepublicansEnlarge/Buy print

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The Arab Spring (2011)Enlarge/Buy print

The Arab Winter (2012)Enlarge/Buy print

The World According to Israel (2012)Enlarge/Buy print

World Dictatorships According to the US (2010)Enlarge/Buy print

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312 comments on “Mapping Stereotypes”

George says: Jul 13, 2013 at 8:23 am

Good job, Yanko. Very amusing and quite thoughtful, with a balanced mix of “flat” and “deeper”stereotypes.By the way, the best evidence of the existence of such stereotypes -in one or another way- is somecertain comments and statements here…One should remind them that your work obviously is a funny but thoughtprovoking illustration and doesnot claim to be an accurate political or sociopsychological postion paper. Evidently, some people seemnot to be aware of the difference. Nevertheless, the rest of us congatulate you for your nice work,which did let us smile and laugh. Dispite such stereotypes we hope to be able to build an united Europeof friendship.

Congrats and Greetings from Athens/Greece!

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Yanko Tsvetkov says: Jul 13, 2013 at 1:42 pm

Thank you, George! :)

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Kosko Kos says: Jul 11, 2013 at 5:00 pm

Greece is NOT European Union. Fuck you eurocrats

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Yanko Tsvetkov says: Jul 11, 2013 at 5:06 pm

I don’t think the eurocrats can hear you, at least not those living outside your head.

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Hitre Petrevski says: Jul 11, 2013 at 2:51 pm

@ Yanko:

“Bratko” Yanko, in the “world according to Bulgaria” map you weren’t honest … FYRoMacedonia“Greek Slavs” ??? I think that the typical Bulgarian view of them is “Non EU Bulgarians with personalitydisorder”

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Yanko Tsvetkov says: Jul 11, 2013 at 2:55 pm

Хитър си ти Петре, but I think irony rarely has anything to do with honesty. Are you really unableto decode the label? :)

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Hitre Petrevski says: Jul 11, 2013 at 4:41 pm

Well, Slavi Trifonov-ski (hehehe) here is being BOTH honest AND ironic. Wouldn’t yousay?

PS: If you make a “the world according to FYRMakedonians write Bulgaria as“Crnomorska Makedonija”, Greece as “Egejcka Makedonija”, Serbia as “Sredno-DunavskaMakedonija”, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro and BiH as “Jadracka Makedonija”, Austria as“Gorno-Dunavska Makedonija”, Italy as “Za-Jadracka Makedonija” and Antarctica as“Pingvinovska Makedonia”.

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Yanko Tsvetkov says: Jul 11, 2013 at 5:04 pm

I promise. :)

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Jul 10, 2013 at 5:56 pm

Ehm…. the one with the Greek stereotypes is almost all wrong…. there’s no way a Greek made it.Most of the stereotypes are mixed up, and some don’t exist at all…

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Yanko Tsvetkov says: Jul 10, 2013 at 5:59 pm

Suggestions?

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Marie says: Jul 12, 2013 at 9:50 am

As a greek I wouldn’t say that we have a “retards” stereotype about Bulgarians…Probablythey are considered to be criminals..and for Romanians the same(yeah, plus the draculastuff+ heavy drinkers)…And for the Albanians I would add a “ta qifsha land”( i don’t know Ifthe spelling is correct).. In fact the majority of young greeks know this typical bad albanianword and use it often for fun or when they want to impersonate an Albanian..

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ebws says: Mar 11, 2013 at 3:19 am

Very very very funny….splendid…fantastic !!!Can”t wait a special south east asia or ASEAN countries map…especially my beloved Indonesia(Indonesia…unity in diversity…)

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GerieRAyers says: Feb 22, 2013 at 8:02 am

looks like the one made for Bulgarians was not made by a Bulgarian- just saying haha

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Yanko Tsvetkov says: Feb 22, 2013 at 4:37 pm

Are you implying I should return my passport?

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panos_ad says: Feb 20, 2013 at 2:31 pm

Why we are supposed to hate all the world lol , i’m greek by the way..

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athanasopoulosmichail says: Feb 24, 2013 at 6:21 pm

@panos_ad Γιατί εμείς τους δώσαμε πολιτισμό και ούτε ένα ευχαριστώ και η μισή Ευρώπη είναιδικιά μας αλλά μας την έχουνε κλέψει!!!

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sophie aimer says: Feb 20, 2013 at 7:35 am

i think there should be one for the world according to chinese shoppers

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MarzhaNavarro says: Feb 18, 2013 at 2:20 pm

INTELIGENTE!

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AndersonSouza says: Feb 18, 2013 at 1:03 pm

The world according brazilians!!!! @

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StanVictor says: Feb 11, 2013 at 7:53 pm

lol,the world acording to romanians.

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skaarj says: Feb 10, 2013 at 2:19 pm

Oh, and please don’t use that “numa-numa” (in Romanian it means “only-only”), it has no connectionwith absolutely nothing between romanian borders. “manelist (gypsy music lover) government” worksbetter.

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skaarj says: Feb 10, 2013 at 2:15 pm

Yea, that would be funny. Three versions – one according to the gypsies living in Romania, oneaccording to the romanian-gipsies genetic mix that you see in the newspapers stealing and killing in ourown government and across Europe, and one according to the true romanians, those that invented theelectricity (Tesla), the jet engine (henry coanda), the insuline, the antirabic vaccine, the rocket theory(herman oberth) and so on. That might be interesting. Also – where’s microsoft headquarters? thesecond language spoken there is romanian.

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Jenique says: Feb 10, 2013 at 3:03 pm

Tesla was Serbian. Btw, I’m also Romanian, but let’s give credit where it’s due, shall we ?

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alphadesigner says: Feb 10, 2013 at 3:14 pm

@skaarj I don’t know about true Romanians but you sound like a racist to me. While born inSibiu, Hermann Oberth was German and Tesla was Serbian. But most of all, this is not a projectwhich sings praises to any nation, so why should I take all those things into account, while allother maps make fun of everybody else? It wouldn’t be very fair,would it?

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TomClancy says: Feb 11, 2013 at 4:28 pm

@alphadesigner Well Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan, Austrian Empire which is Croatiatoday to Serbian parents. But anyways… dude or chick whatever you are, you are doing a good job on these maps!Keep it up!

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CaragioXavalin says: Feb 10, 2013 at 1:57 pm

Hi Yanko, can you make a map of Europe according to the Romanians ?

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Mzungu says: Feb 2, 2013 at 2:36 pm

Why can you by a print of all except for the Africa According to USA map?

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Yanko Tsvetkov says: Feb 3, 2013 at 10:30 pm

The African map got deleted by Zazzle and I’m not exactly aware why. However, there is anupdated of the entire series coming in about a month, and the newly updated African map will beback again. If you’re in a hurry, you can get it following this link: http://bit.ly/XR09AX

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jim says: Jan 27, 2013 at 4:46 am

All is funny I only disagree with the 2022 prediction, I think it’s not realistic :)

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victor says: Jan 22, 2013 at 4:10 pm

I sincerely doubt that many of these were made by people from the respective countries…. forcountries like Italy, Switzerland and Germany, many of the cited sterotypes seem more like apop-culture mediated image of what OTHERS think THEY think than the real native jokes or bigotry.

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alphadesigner says: Jan 23, 2013 at 8:38 am

The Mapping Stereotypes project is not an exercise in statistics, if that’s what you meant. It’s asatirical map project. You can find out more about critical response, including the countries youmentioned, here: http://alphadesigner.com/press/

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skyeee says: Jan 24, 2013 at 8:41 pm

Satire is humor that plays on reality. Most of these maps are far from reality. They don’tin any way represent the misconceptions of the given country about the outside world. Ifanything, these maps reflect their creator’s misconceptions about other countries’misconceptions.

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alphadesigner says: Jan 25, 2013 at 4:59 pm

@skyeee If my work didn’t target real issues or misinterpreted them in the way yousuggest, Stern magazine in Germany wouldn’t feature it as Satire of the Year and Iwouldn’t have a book in German coming next month. Corriere della Sera in Italywouldn’t have featured them on its front page either.

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alphadesigner says: Jan 25, 2013 at 5:10 pm

@skyeee Oh, it wouldn’t be a bad idea for you to stop assuming I am an American, itwill clear a lot of your own misconceptions. :)

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booooo says: Jan 31, 2013 at 7:49 pm

@alphadesigner @skyeee did skyeee assume you were american? chill out,homey.

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alphadesigner says: Feb 1, 2013 at 1:54 am

@skyeee Here you go, spank her good!

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alphadesigner says: Feb 1, 2013 at 1:55 am

@booooo Here you go, spank her good!

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Max Laroca says: Jan 13, 2013 at 11:58 pm

Love your maps.Big thanks for the laughs.

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SRBIN says: Jan 11, 2013 at 12:36 am

Kosovo is Serbia,Republic Srpska is one country you bastard!!!СРБИЈА У СРЦУ!!!!

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alphadesigner says: Jan 11, 2013 at 2:01 am

@SRBIN I’ll relay your message to Santa Claus. Is there something else I can assist you with?

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TomClancy says: Jan 22, 2013 at 1:52 pm

@SRBIN Whahaha, Srbi jos misle da je sve njihovo… tsk tsk tsk

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Sefer says: Feb 10, 2013 at 3:48 pm

@TomClancy Srbi znaju sta je njihovo.

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TomClancy says: Feb 11, 2013 at 2:42 pm

@Sefer Izgleda da Kosovo nije vise! Whahahahah… Ni Hrvatska i ni Bosna!

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CecAlla says: Jan 9, 2013 at 12:50 am

could you make a portuguese view please? thanks!

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alphadesigner says: Jan 23, 2013 at 8:40 am

@CecAlla I don’t want to make empty promises but I’ll try. :)

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ehmanel says: Feb 1, 2013 at 1:10 pm

@alphadesigner @CecAlla That´s an awesome idea! May I give you a tip for Bulgaria?Yordanov’s land :D

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Olimpia says: Feb 7, 2013 at 3:17 am

@alphadesigner @CecAlla What about a Romanian view? :D

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Jul 10, 2013 at 8:23 pm

How about a Soviet Union or a Nazi Germany or former Yugoslavia’s Europe point ofview?That would be very interesting…Also something that would be very interestingis a Cuban view,or a Jamaican view,or an Australian view,or a Canadian view,orevery Balkan country’s view of the other countries and the list goes on and on..Canyou please do that,alphadesigner?

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Yanko Tsvetkov says: Jul 10, 2013 at 8:33 pm

Interesting proposals! I am working on some similar maps in the moment, forexample Europe According to Hitler. Will think about the Balkans, that would bevery interesting… Thanks!

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