(via How To Irritate Europeans In Just One Sentence – Brilliant Maps)
Someone asked for an explanation so since I typed it all out:
Ireland - "Southern Ireland". This is in contrast to Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK. But the Irish just want to be called Ireland.
Scotland - "Where in England is that?". The Scots hate being called English. They see themselves as a different country.
England - "Los Malvinas son Argentinas". "The Falkland Islands are Argentinian" (in Spanish). They fought a war in the 80s over them when the Argentines invaded.
Portugal - "Do you speak Brazillian right?". Brazil speaks Portuguese. Brazil used to be a colony of Portugal. Now Brazil is the more prominent Portuguese speaking country.
Spain - "So you're latino?". Latino is an American term generally referring to people with Latin American heritage. But Spain was the mother country that colonised most of Latin America.
France - "American wines are better." The French are very proud of their wines and think they're the best in the world.
Netherlands - "'Sinterklaas' is racist". The Dutch Santa Claus (Sinterklaas) has a black sidekick called Zwarte Piet. Those who insist on imposing the American cultural context on the rest of the world ignoring local history, traditions and context through Cultural Imperialism claim this is racist.
Switzerland - "Belgian chocolate is the best!" Switzerland and Belgium are the 2 countries in Europe most famous for their chocolate and there is a rivalry among them.
Germany - "This video is not available in your country". Due to German licensing laws many videos were not available in Germany for a long time.
Austria - "Are you Germans?" Austria uses German and is culturally similar to Germany but they are their own country.
Italy - "I like pasta with ketchup". Italians are famous food snobs and pasta with ketchup is very far from pasta with tomato sauce.
Hungary - "Are you hungry hahaha". Hungary the country name is almost a homonym for hungry. It's a bad pun.
Czechia (Czech Republic)/Slovakia - "Are you Eastern Europeans?" They like to be considered Central Europe (the new name for the area after the Iron Curtain fell)
Norway - "Are you the western part of Sweden?" Norway is not part of Sweden. The 2 countries were actually most recently in a personal union (same King) for 9 decades after a war and the Norwegians were unhappy but there's some more complicated history too.
Sweden - "Rape capital of the world". Sweden has the highest recorded rape rate in the world, partly due to its methodology of counting rapes but also due to immigration. This is a contentious issue and even mentioning it often gets you called racist in Sweden.
Poland - "Polish death camps." The Poles like to blame the Nazis for the World War II death camps and gloss over Polish collaboration. There is even a 2018 law under which it's illegal to use such language.
Slovenia - "Alpine Serbs"
Croatia - "Catholic Serbs"
Bosnia - "Muslim Serbs"
North Macedonia - "Southern Serbs"
Serbia was the dominant part of the former Yugoslavia. The other countries which were part of Yugoslavia don't like to be reminded of that. And most of the people in those countries aren't ethnic Serbs either.
Serbia - "Tesla is a Croat". Nikola Tesla the famous inventor was ethnically Serb, but born in modern day Croatia.
Bulgaria - "Still use the Russian alphabet?" Bulgarian and Russian both use the Cyrillic script, with minor variations. Bulgarians like to think their script is unique and not Russian script, even though most people think of Cyrillic as Russian.
Romania - "Beautiful country, I love Budapest". Budapest is in Hungary. Historically Transylvania (a large part of Romania) was part of Hungary.
Baltic countries - "Baltics? You're Russians right?" The 3 Baltic states used to be part of the USSR and were not happy to be part of it. They were the first bits of the USSR to break free.
Greece - "Macedonia for Macedonians". Greece is very sensitive about Macedonia. So much so that they used to force North Macedonia to be referred to as the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and blockaded North Macedonia for a while. Historically Macedonia used to cover much of modern Greece and many Greeks identify as Macedonian.
Turkey - "Can you translate this Arabic sentence?" Turks are not Arabs. The language and even the script are different, though both are Middle Eastern and predominantly Muslim.
