{"id":3263,"date":"2011-09-30T05:12:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T10:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/09\/30\/fun-with-stereotypes\/"},"modified":"2011-09-30T05:14:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T10:14:11","slug":"fun-with-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/09\/30\/fun-with-stereotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/germany-on-vacation.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" alt=\"Germany digging a hole on the beach\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nLast Tuesday Teresa at <cite>Making Light<\/cite> posted about <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/013223.html#013223\">what Scandinavians thought about each other<\/a>, which included a link to the delightful new to me webcomic <a href=\"http:\/\/satwcomic.com\/\">Scandinavia and the World<\/a>. I read this post on Wednesday; I also had a job interview the same day. Looking through a huge archive of slow loading but funny cartoons is not the ideal preparation for this.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWorth it though, if you like cartoons that gently poke fun at national stereotypes, mixed in with a bit of yaoi.  Such as <a href=\"http:\/\/satwcomic.com\/germany-on-vacation\">the tendency for Germans to dig holes in our beaches<\/a>, as shown above. The characters btw are the countries they&#8217;re representing, so that is Germany digging a hole while Holland (with the joint) and Denmark (beer) look on.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat do y&#8217;all think of this sort of casual stereotyping, where it&#8217;s largely reciprocal, the countries involved are on a roughly equal footing and nobody really seems to take them very seriously?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Tuesday Teresa at Making Light posted about what Scandinavians thought about each other, which included a link to the delightful new to me webcomic Scandinavia and the World. I read this post on Wednesday; I also had a job interview the same day. Looking through a huge archive of slow loading but funny cartoons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3265,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions\/3265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}