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Danes are a nice lot but uncomfortably nationalistic. I love Denmark, I've been there a dozen times, my dad lives in Jutland and a friend of mine studied in Køben. I'm also a frequent visitor to Stockholm where my wife has a bunch of relatives and København and Stockholm feel like polar opposites in a lot of ways. Both are very diverse modern cities but the underlining nationalism feels a lot more hostile and pervasive in Denmark. Maybe it's because Denmark is currently a colonial power and Sweden hasn't been for 150 years. Also the Danish underground train stations are boring identical concrete cubes while every station in the Stockholm metro feels unique. On the other hand it is very nice to be able to buy beer in the grocery store and the Danes are generally a bit more chill.  
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I like being racist against other Scandinavians, it's like being racist against your parents or something. I would say #notalldanes but the majority is actually racist against other people, so... And yeah we definitely have a big helping of Danish Exceptionalism which is p lol when you look at the maps you just posted to be fair, the tiles by the stairs in the metro stations are themed #wow #whoa
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Neighboring countries can make fun of eachother, but there's also a dynamic where you're more of a jerk for punching down, so if you're self-conscious in that way, there's sort of a deference to the countries you feel free to make fun of unreservedly. Which I think is why so much of American negative stereotyping about Canada is so weirdly complementary.
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Mar 13, 2021 01:56
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The only country I feel like I can make fun of as an American and it not be punching down is Britain.
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France and Germany.
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If you broke up some of the longer states, this is better than basically every “let’s reimagine the U.S. states” map in that it doesn’t completely botch the geophysical reality of the Western U.S. King Hong Kong fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Mar 13, 2021 |
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Mar 13, 2021 05:38
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FreudianSlippers posted:If we were actually basing countries on ethnic and linguistic groups Germany, Austria, Denmark, The Netherlands, Switzerland, and the Dutch parts of Belgium would be one country.
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Mar 13, 2021 05:57
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 Every single one of these loving rules
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Mar 13, 2021 09:56
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“mapologies” and “2021” are strange names.
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Mar 13, 2021 10:02
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SlothfulCobra posted:Neighboring countries can make fun of eachother I bet all the former Soviet republics love being made fun of by Russians. Also I always lmao myself to death when Americans joke about Mexicans. e: And oh god the Balkans.
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System Metternich posted:
Because we don't use a general term meaning "sons of a sibling", Tupu, Hupu, and Lupu were known as Aku's brother's sons for decades. I think they got fed up with nerds bombing them with "ACTUALLY IN THE ORIGINAL THEY WERE SENT BY DONALD'S SISTER!!!1122" letters at some point*, but couldn't really start calling them Aku's sister's sons because then the Old Farts would start complaining, so now they're his "relative boys" or just "duck boys" or "the boys" I think. *) Also Don Rosa made the family tree which made the mistake obvious.
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Kennel posted:More variation than any other language map.
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Mar 13, 2021 12:15
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The Serbian ones are regular names and/or nicknames that rhyme with the translation of Donald Duck - Paja Patak. A Serbian company held the rights for Disney and introduced the characters to the entirety of Yugoslavia. The Croatian versions are terrible replacements introduced after the war to cancel previous cultural links to Serbia.
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Mar 13, 2021 12:32
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Donald Duck is rightful Serbian clay
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A Buttery Pastry posted:I wonder how many of those are named after the sound ducks make. The Danish ones are, I assume Icelandic and Dutch too. If it kwiks like a duck and it kweks like a duck and it kwaks like a duck
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I'll ask some Turks if Jin Jan Jem mean have any significance besides being alliterative.
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System Metternich posted:
Actual names: Hubert, Deuteronomy and Louis. Donald's (twin) sister is wack.
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Estonians with similar names, but in different order than Finns 
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Latvia does not approve of their shenanigans and has issued a damnatio memoriae
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adhuin posted:Estonians with similar names, but in different order than Finns I just realized the map is racist because it doesn't show the Saami version (or possibly versions). 
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I just realized the map is racist because it doesn't show the Saami version (or possibly versions).
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I think they prefer to be referenced as The Magic Kingdom
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SlothfulCobra posted:Neighboring countries can make fun of eachother, as a treat Anyway I'm not so sure about this though, there's a bit of a misty area between good-natured ribbing and outright hostility. There are definitely French and Dutch chauvinists who not only believe their own country is superior, but have a particular type of arrogance and condescension reserved for their Belgian neighbours. It's one of the reasons I always think alt-hist maps where Belgium gets split between the Netherlands and France is so dumb. Belgians don't want to belong to either nation. It'd be just as dumb to split and divide Switzerland to its neighbours. You could argue Switzerland has been around longer, but Belgium as a nation state is older than Germany, Italy, Ireland, the Baltic countries and Albania, to name a few.
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I'd say France is the wrong one because they chose names that don't rhyme or bare any resemblance to eachother.DarkCrawler posted:Actual names: Hubert, Deuteronomy and Louis. The new Ducktales retconned it so that Donald's sister wasn't there when they were born. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_XFlS9AGWA 3D Megadoodoo posted:I bet all the former Soviet republics love being made fun of by Russians. Also I always lmao myself to death when Americans joke about Mexicans. Man, if only I had somehow considered how punching down makes you a jerk. Woe is me.
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Pope Hilarius II posted:Anyway I'm not so sure about this though, there's a bit of a misty area between good-natured ribbing and outright hostility. There are definitely French and Dutch chauvinists who not only believe their own country is superior, but have a particular type of arrogance and condescension reserved for their Belgian neighbours.
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Space Kablooey posted:lmao at switzerland keeping it's current borders.
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The onomatopœia duck names are bad.
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I know that Belgium's origin as practically an accounting error in the power struggle of bigger powers around it isn't really unique and Switzerland, Finland, Poland, and Ukraine have similar deals, and I really don't know much about what makes a people or what cultures are more distinct or "valid". But weirdly getting really indignant apropos of nothing and insisting how distinct and valid Belgium is as a nation gives me more of an impression that Belgium is a sham.
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Baudelaire had things to say about Belgium. Than again Baudelaire was an insufferable git so 
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SlothfulCobra posted:The new Ducktales retconned it so that Donald's sister wasn't there when they were born. New version also retconned their names to Hubert, Dewford, and Llewellyn
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It's cool how people really like bad animated cartoons now.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:It's cool how people really like bad animated cartoons now. That's nothing new though, bad animation has been around forever.
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Kamrat posted:That's nothing new though, bad animation has been around forever. Yeah we all watched them as kids but we didn't like them.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I know that Belgium's origin as practically an accounting error in the power struggle of bigger powers around it isn't really unique and Switzerland, Finland, Poland, and Ukraine have similar deals, and I really don't know much about what makes a people or what cultures are more distinct or "valid". - Switzerland built itself up from the ground up, and has existed as a de facto independent state similar to what it is today for like 500 years. - Finland is basically just a province that was recognized as inhabited by a distinct people for centuries, no matter the overlord, which finally become a sovereign state around a hundred years ago. - Poland has gone from a multicultural empire to being split between empires, reforming, being split again, and then finally being reconstituted in partially new territory alongside a massive population transfer to make it extremely ethnically homogeneous. - Ukraine I suppose is sort of similar to Poland, except its heyday was even further in the past and even more divorced from the modern state, and no one bothered to ensure it was ethnically homogeneous when it finally became independent.
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Isn't Ukraine independent kinda by accident? It was spun off from Russia in the middle of the 20th century when both nations were part of the USSR. Almost like a nation adding a new province. They clearly didn't expect the whole thing to fall apart a few decades later. edit: oh Ukraine was also independent for all of two years from 1919-20 before being re-absorbed. Count Roland fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Mar 13, 2021 |
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Count Roland posted:Isn't Ukraine independent kinda by accident? It was spun off from Russia in the middle of the 20th century when both nations were part of the USSR. Almost like a nation adding a new province. They clearly didn't expect the whole thing to fall apart a few decades later.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:It was an SSR right from the start, but yeah, it was treated like just another province. Hence the fiddling with the borders after Stalin, which put Crimea and some of the eastern territories under Ukrainian administration. Ah, yes it was the transfer of Crimea I was thinking of.
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My favorite part about this is, it's not joking or merely 'estimating' with Alberta. They have really strict, well-observed rules about exterminating any rat infestation in the province. It's the one place in the world where you can absolutely guarantee that there are no infestations of rats in those borders.
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