The World Map of Useless Stereotypes

They missed out on calling Williamsburg, "Hipsters".

I've heard the Northeast called much worse than "Jerks".

Even though the majority of people everywhere are very nice,

almost every culture around the world, maybe save Sweden/scandinavia is occasionally so Ethnocentric they come off as almost xenophobic.

As a Northeasterner I'd like to say we probably don't view the west coast as nerds... more like vapid egotists and/or rich hippies (hello pot, it's the kettle).

At the risk of being a stereotypical Canadian, isn't this a bit more of a map of "How Americans stereotype other peoples, and how they percieve themselves as being stereoptypes."?

America takes up the largest portion of the map, a large section of which is dominated entirely by New York. Of course, if the artist ISN'T being stereotypically American and that's all just part of chart, this is me being stereotypically Canadian and backpedaling/appoligizing.

Cana-who?

I kid, I kid. Yes, you're probably right.

I've got one to add: New Yorkers think that New York is 25% of the entire world.

Yea, Canada is only 350,000 square kilometers larger than the United States including all of it's ill-gotten regions. Maybe there is some truth to the "Narcissist" stereotype.

The Park Slope one really made me laugh.

Yeah there are a lot of regional US stereotypes -Massholes is one. Though when I was in Boston last year pretty much everyone was nice, helping me out with directions, etc.

Here in Denver I'd guess the assumption is that CO is skiiers and cowboys. The info desk people at DIA wear cowboy type outfits. There are people like that here, so there's some truth to it, but it doesn't apply to most.

>> The best, I think, is the huge collection of countries in Europe who think the others are all arrogant

Being a European myself, the funny thing is that we mainly think this about the USA, not so much about each other. (Not to say we don't have a truckload of other stereotypes about each other.)

Shows a prejudice right there in your comment. How appropriate.

I think it's telling that Manhattan is as big as Africa, and the NYC metro area as big as the continental US.

This isn't a map of stereotypes; this is a map of how a NYC-centric person lazily imagines people around the world feels about each other. Except for Africa, which has no feelings about the outside world, apparently.

I dodn't realise the stereotype for Australia and much of the Southern hemisphere is "does not exist".

*didn't - stupid tiny phone keypad.

To those that point out that NY is huge on the map...this is a takeoff of a map that was itself a takeoff...done in the New Yorker magazine decades ago that was meant to show that same newyorkcentrism...basically everything west of New Jersey is wastelands...having been a New Yorker during that period of time, I can tell you it's not too far off the mark for a lot of people that live there...

When does a takeoff become a ripoff?

The New York aspect is so prominent, that one can only imagine it was ripped from somewhere else, and had "world" tacked on after.