A South-German made, 18th century chart describing various people’s in Europe, translated by Dokk_Draws

https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1eqlo8d

by Great-Insurance-3143

32 comments

  1. For Turk/Greek: “These were classic ethnic stereotypes in early eighteenth-century central Europe. What really surprised me was not the stereotyping of each nation, but rather seeing the Turks and the Greeks as one group, with the same characteristics shown in the same column. They were perceived as identical. Apparently, the Age of Enlightenment had not yet discovered the modern Greeks as the heirs of the revered Ancient Greeks. This happened towards the end of the 18th century with neoclassicism and later with romanticism. It was then that the Greeks were promoted and seen differently from the Turks.”

    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02757206.2022.2132494

  3. You’ve got to appreciate the totally non biased traits of a “German” 😀
    Also the description of muskovites is funny as fuck ><

  5. Polish pastime being arguing is one of a few accurate things there

  6. the traits at Spanish and Englishman, wouldn’t be more like masculine and feminime? i mean… well okey, to be honest, the whole chart is messed up 😀

  7. As an Italian I can say they were pretty much right about us, and I see the love for Russians it’s still the same two centuries later.

  9. If the French are so inconsistent with their clothing, how does the author know that the English copy their fashion? Doesn’t that suggest the opposite of inconsistency?

  10. you can tell an austrian wrote this because they really didnt like the turks, hungarians or russians at the time

  11. Spaniards have an “arrogant” attitude but a “wonderful” nature? The original tsundere

    “It’s… it’s not like I discovered the new world for you or anything, *estúpido!”*

  12. God, the French is a total wreck. Sex addict manchild spadassin, that’s hell of a stereotype

  13. Bro wtf is up with Greek/Turkish, like are we cool or not?!

  14. That’s just plain great. I love the idea of associating a disease to each one of them, lol

  15. I like how it’s “Greek/Turk” for the entire fucking Balkan peninsula (I’m assuming Ottoman empire) 😂 but i like how a leader being a tyrant stood the test of time

  18. This is somehow extremely funny XD

    And oh boy did he not like russians

  21. The fact that the Dutch are not even mentioned means that this is absolute trash

  22. “Cruel”?? I’ll be going medieval on this dudes ass.

  23. lol the germs really hate the polish with passion, it’s like a national sport huh

  25. I misread what Germany had an abundance of as ‘cops’ and thought – yeah, that still tracks.

  27. I just couldn’t stop laughing when it comes to the description of the Turks

  28. Everyone gets shit on and meanwhile, the French get described as sex-addicted space marines

  29. The name “Muscovites” is a historical evidence that Moscow stole an identity from Kievan Rus and was not considered by others in the past as “Russia, the homeland of Slavs”.

  32. France science? war, favourites? war, end of life? war. lmao

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