What does Japan think of Scotland? Historian creates map of how the Japanese see Europe
A US-based professional historian specialising in Japan, has made a map of Japanese stereotypes of various European countries and it reveals Scotland wants independence.
The map is based on Japanese Google autocomplete suggestions, but not every country in Europe has been represented.
I made a map of Japanese stereotypes of European countries, based on Japanese Google autocomplete suggestions. pic.twitter.com/g2hAqF5vOw
— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) April 22, 2016
The map finds out that England has "bad food", Spain are good at football and that France has no fat people.
@Paninodesu Yeah, I was confused by that myself, actually, but after digging around, it seems to be some sort of "polandball" reference.
— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) April 25, 2016
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