{"id":136,"date":"2010-10-02T08:40:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T08:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premesso.newcontrarian.com\/?p=136"},"modified":"2010-10-02T08:40:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T08:40:06","slug":"european-stereotypes-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"European Stereotypes Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European stereotypes have been entrenched since at least the time of the first Grand Tour.  But as <a title=\"Atlas of the Real World\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/picturegalleries\/3109042\/The-Atlas-of-the-Real-World.html\" target=\"_blank\">organizational tools<\/a>, maps have the power to change <a title=\"The Economist's new European map\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_EpZLa5tSu28\/S-GX_32JMKI\/AAAAAAAAANY\/IGtL0NKVPPw\/s1600\/201018EUM926.gif\" target=\"_blank\">the way one perceives the world<\/a>. \u00a0Personally, I&#8217;ve found alternate maps fascinated by maps ever since getting a Gall-Peters world map sometime in the eighties. \u00a0So for a little Saturday morning fun, let me point you in the direction of Bulgarian artist Yanko Tsvetkov&#8217;s <a title=\"Europe Stereotypes Maps\" href=\"http:\/\/alphadesigner.com\/project-mapping-stereotypes.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mapping Stereotypes<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/telegraph\/multimedia\/archive\/01720\/map-europe-accordi_1720161c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/telegraph\/multimedia\/archive\/01720\/map-europe-accordi_1720161c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">But... mummies are in Egypt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s an improvement over the ages-old &#8220;French courteous. Spanish lordly. Italian amorous. German clownish&#8221; saw or the old &#8220;<a title=\"Yglz on the old reliable Euro-stereotypes\" href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/stereotype-based-european-joking\/\" target=\"_blank\">in hell everything is organized by the Italians<\/a>&#8221; joke. \u00a0In fact, Tsvetkov gives Italy special attention, \u00a0subtly\u00a0highlighting that Italy&#8217;s North-South problem and the attendant political use of it is not something confined only to Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of divided states, don&#8217;t miss the visually-funny Cyprus map at the bottom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European stereotypes have been entrenched since at least the time of the first Grand Tour. But as organizational tools, maps have the power to change the way one perceives the world. \u00a0Personally, I&#8217;ve found alternate maps fascinated by maps ever since getting a Gall-Peters world map sometime in the eighties. \u00a0So for a little Saturday &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=136\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;European Stereotypes Maps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[151,245],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}