• tiredofsametab@fedia.io
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        16 days ago

        As someone who’s lived in Japan roughly a decade, Finland would either be Santa or aurora based on everyone I’ve talked to. There are plenty of stereotypes (some of which are accurate in my mind), but this map seems a bit weird

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          15 days ago

          The usual reaction to me mentioning that I’m from Latvia here is: “Where? and where is that on the map?”

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        15 days ago

        I don’t care how they got their data, I just love that they ended up with this:

    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      16 days ago

      As a person who is Swiss and has lived a while in Japan, everyone says “Heidi”. I think Heidi/the alps is the biggest stereotype of Switzerland to japanese people, not banking.

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      15 days ago

      Same here, but I’ve noticed that, at least from my circle here, people don’t know too much about countries in Europe. Not that they really should, I guess. I’m from the Czech Republic, and usually I should point it on a map for people to understand better where it is.