America from a European perspective

Surprisingly accurate.

Other than the upper peninsula lol
- Yea not sure what's up with the upper peninsula. I feel like it's someone who actually knows Michigan and just wants to irritate Michiganders
- Right? More like "pasties and trees."
- I think they think that’s where Chicago is
Nope! Incest should be bigger
- Oh no, I'd rather not
Modt of New York should actually say “cheese”
- I think “squawk !” would be more appropriate.

European here, these are what different states or areas of the USA remind me of (like what's the first think I think of when I hear it's name):

Southern states: right wing twats
Alabama: incest
Florida: gators and really, really weird news headlines
Texas: stupidly large trucks, guns and cowboys
Alaska: cold, that one goldrush
California: expensive, liberal
Ohio: those fucking memes
Hawaii: warm, colonialism
Mississippi: riverboats
Washington: why the hell is the city of Washington not in Washington?

Washington: why the hell is the city of Washington not in Washington?
There's also Washington Island. It's nowhere near Washington state or DC. It's in Lake Michigan, and is part of Wisconsin, not Michigan.
- Aside from the island, Wisconsin has 7 different towns named Washington, though most of them have a population in the hundreds.
  Of course they have nothing on Indiana, which has 46 towns named Washington, or Iowa, which has 49.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Township
- And both University of Washington, in the state, and wash U, in St. Louis. Both are major medical centers.
On that last point, George Washington is still considered the most popular president of the USA. In his own time he would come to cities and people (all of them) would swarm the streets. When the Constitution was signed Washington was in retirement, but the writers of the Constitution assumed Washington would be the first President. There were roughly 8 candidates running for the position, Washington wasn't one of them, and when Washington announced he would come out of retirement the other candidates dropped out of the running. Washington won the first election unanimously.
A lot of Europeans don't realize this, but the Constitution wasn't the first government of the new USA. First there was the Articles of Confederation which went from 1777-1789 so Washington had been gone for quite some time and was still so popular.
It's not at all surprising that it's one of the most popular landmark names in the US (street and city names).
Some other popular names include Lafayette, MLK, Lincoln, and Jackson, Jefferson, and Madison.
- Similar to the names Elizabeth and Victoria in the UK. The first being mostly named after Elizabeth I (daughter of Henry VIII) and the second being Queen Vic. Although we don't tend to name towns after people since most of our town names stretch back to Roman/Saxon/Celtic/Norman times. But train stations, schools, pubs, etc commonly incorporate these names.
- The confederation of states is the American version of people in Russia who think the USSR still exists. They go around trying to act like the Articles of Confederation still exist.
Alaska: cold, that one goldrush
Hawaii: warm, colonialism
I think you know more about our history than we do
- I just read a ton of Don Rosa when I was 8-11.
Washington's name is everywhere because there was this guy named Washington and he did some cool things a couple hundred years ago.
- I heard that guy had like 30 god damn dicks
Hawaii: warm, colonialism
But it's all colonialism.
California: That other goldrush
Hawaii: Funny you pick that state out of 50 for "colonialism."
Ohio: Home of the buckeye, a useless nut.
Washington: The federal capitol city, Washington D.C. is on a small bit of land along the Potomac river sandwiched between Virginia and Maryland. It was founded in the late 1700s early in the nation's history before we laid any claim to the West coast. The state of Washington--the top-left most of the lower 48--was one of the last settled and named. There were several plans drawn up to create several states in the region, and name them Washington, Jefferson, and possibly one or two other founding fathers. Washington was the only one that went through with it.
Texas used to be a huge fudd state until very recently, at least I assume that things changed.
They required a permit for carrying hand guns but not long guns.

The blue one just needs to be switched to alcoholism and drugs. Then it's perfect.

Robocop and Seattle for Frasier.
- I love that the world's idea of Seattle could be mostly based on Frasier, a show not filmed in Seattle, starring no one from the state nor written or created by anyone from Seattle, with hardly any plot line that has anything to do with the area. Basically the only thing Seattle in that show is the Space Needle, and they way they show it isn't even possible in real life.
Possibly my favorite Lewis Black sketch is about drinking in Wisconsin.
"You are not alcoholics - you are professionals

Pretty bad comparison
size is irrelevant
american states are provinces, not countries. how many americans know the provinces of Germany?
identifying states when most of them are just rectangles is damn annoying
- It's a fairly reasonable comparison.
  Just trying to throw away the concept of size is probably the most unfair thing here. You are trying to change the conversation so your argument appears valuable. Then you kind of piss that attempt at goal post moving by claiming that while size is irrelevant, somehow shape is. What a strange move.
  You make a good point on the US state vs Country comparison, I think that certainly plays a much larger part than size or even population. But if you wanted to argue that point, rather than dismiss relevant concepts or inserting ridiculous ones - you could rebut with a question like "can you name the subjects of the Russian Federation?" Or, if you are in a fighting mood (which...clearly), you could just respond that American exceptionalism has them overvaluing the relevance of US States on the global scale.
yeah, but for example: Luxembourg - the last grand duchy in the world, one of four institutional seats of the european union, capital city is an UNESCO world heritage site, has a 1000 years of history.
Idaho - potatoes. wait... maybe it's Iowa? or Ohio?
edit: really seems like people can't take a joke, lmao
- No one under a monarchy has actual pride in their people and country, why should we care that the city was founded from a royal whorehouse by people we're also descended from anyways?
- Poland - borscht and poverty. wait... Maybe it's Ukraine? or Belarus?
  Sweden - vikings? wait... Maybe it's Norway? or Denmark?
  Germany - Fascists? wait... Maybe it's Italy? or Hungary?
  France - bread? wait... Maybe it's Netherlands? or Germany?
  Yes, it's easy to trivialize something you know nothing about. Now maybe it's not interesting to you, but to the horror of history YouTubers- everywhere has history, and the history of some random inbred monarchs isn't exactly relevant or interesting to everyone.
What comparison is that lmao

They put Detroit in the wrong spot

And yet there's nothing else in the UP, besides cold, and you will note it is a dark blue.

The Incest area is way too small. The Cowboy area is way too big.

I've always had this criticism of pornhub

TBH probably more accurate than an American perspective.

As a European who doesn't know much about the states: This is pretty accurate. I would exchange gators for florida man and I don't know what the cars and crime one is but otherwise it's spot on.

Detroit Michigan, "motor city", is home to a lot of car manufacturers and also much crime.
- Yet, Detroit is not included in the blue region
- Ah, I have heard of Detroit from probably some movie but I didn't know it was associated with cars or crime.
- Does it even still have a lot of car manufacturers? Or any?

Sadly, Cowboy and New York are much smaller and incest is much larger.

I'm surprised anyone there knows that the UP of Michigan exists. It's a sparcely populated area with low crime. Hunting, fishing, snowmobiling and drinking.

So it's basically Canada?
- Yeah but with pasties
Pretty sure the UP is catching a stray bullet fired at the rest of Michigan lol
- So...Michigan as usual.
Yeah they don't deserve this shade lol. Smoked fish, nature tourism, and yooper sensibility.
Mackinac Island!

They think Seattle is full of cowboys?

As a born Seattlite, all I can say is this town ain't big enough for the two of us pardner.
- Yeah that's real good, cause law just don't go around here, lawdawg.
The dancing kind, but yeah.
- Maybe not two step, but the Sturgill Simpson kind
For me Seattle will always mean grunge and I'm stuck in the 90s.
Seattle: Jimi Hendrix, grunge, rain
- Coffee and more rain. Although it's beautiful and warm right now, shockingly.
Seattle sounds cowboy-like

I'd just like to point out that some European countries have higher rates of incest than the US.

Cousin marriage is also illegal in much of the US while it is legal in much of Europe.

In fact, if this is to be believed (not a clue how accurate this is), Spain, Portugal, and Italy (as well as Canada and Mexico) have higher rates of incest than any single state in the United States.

This is totally believable, but Europeans don't think that America is more incestuous than Europe. They think that that part of America is more incestuous than the rest of America.
- Specially the incest states
- I'm curious if that's based on truth or just yeehaw gottem
- Except Alabama has lower rates of incest than many of those countries.
I like this kind of statistics, but it is counting only investigated cases? In this cases is common that developed countries with more woman freedom would appear higher in statistics. If you see only official cases you will see that Sweden has a higher rape by inhabitant than India, Bangladesh, Yemen and Brazil. This is probably not true, and is possible to happen because women are more prone to report rape in Sweden than in these other countries.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/%28A%29_Rape_rates_per_100000_population_2010-2012%2C_world.jpg
Being Portuguese, I can assure you that we're not doing it with our sisters, though I can't really say how much marrying with cousins is going on (whilst I don't know a single person who has done it, I haven't exactly researched the matter).
- It's mostly cousins and mostly in villages. It was somewhat common (as in, it wouldn't be seen as completely out of left field) to marry your cousin some decades ago. I know a few seniors who either married their cousin or know someone who did. However it's definitely an older generation thing, I've never heard of someone younger than 40 doing it, and I doubt it's that common these days.
I knew there was something funny about those Canadians.
where can I find the notion about Italy, Portugal etc in the link you provided?
I'm surprised it's criminalized in Texas and Kansas...

Eh, not far off

I'd change Florida to Disney World because that's the main reason anyone would get a passport to go to Florida.

Not to see Gator World?
- Sad gator noises

And where do the religious nuts go?

Nah, Cowboys are South.

Middle are "Religious Nutcases"

That's more what an American thinks a European perspective is.

As a European with a higher than average interest in North America, I can say with some confidence that Europeans don't think about the Upper Peninsula at all.
- Yoopers in shambles
- Their loss, it's a rather tastefully done Peninsula
- Boston is very disappointed
My partner is Turkish. She said that this is how America looks in her brain.
As a Canadian, this is largely my perspective.

I think this map was made by an American cos it's referencing cultural things that I don't know or care about.

Interesting that your perspective includes less incest than mine... And I live in Alabama!

Hawaii and Alaska are just ???

We forgot to tell Europe about those 2.
Hawaii is hula dancers and Alaska is Eskimos.
hawaii is "wait that's part of the US?" and alaska is "discovery channel"

Don't you know that the entire west coast is just Los Angeles?

Las Vegas, LA
- Reno is further west than LA
  Edit:oops

Not entirely inaccurate...

incest needs to span further upward i think, but other than that it's a surprisingly accurate depiction of the US lolol

I'm surprised it's not just one color called "Opioids"

And guns

I thought Texas was a place of Beers, Steers + Qveers.

"Only steers and queers come from Texas Private Cowboy and you don't look much like a steer to me so that kinda narrows it down don't it?" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GPBbIFQuI0

I'll have you know Louisiana has nearly double the alligators of Florida, and Florida legally allows marriage between first cousins. So boom.

North California is way more "cowboy" than "movie", by the way.

For sure more than Seattle

We don't talk about Alaska

I always assumed that the cowboy area was bigger!

Everything's bigger in cowboy area

From a US-American perspective, pretty much, yeah

Just going to put all of the deep south in New York huh.

I wondered about that.
- I grew up in New England. To me, the American South is anything south of Newark.

ny is only on the east coast. flyover states are between movie and ny. the incest states should be bigger. gator should be renamed to florida man.

Agreed... Much bigger incest states!

Come on, you mean to tell me the United States of America were a real country? How ludicrous!

Used to be. We won WWII
- That's all a conspiracy theory made up by Vancouver, the real Hollywood. There's no such thing as a landmass between Canada and Mexico. The "States" are made up to scare European countries so they won't privatise healthcare and deregulate gun control. Are you that naïve? Geeesh!

I dunno man, every time I was in Europe and told people I was from Seattle they were like, Nirvana!!! Even like decades after Cobain killed himself.

Makes sense. Every time I hear about Manchester UK, I'm like: Joy Division!!! But I'm sure they're known for other things too.
- I think they have a soccer team.

Them's fightin' words. You've just yeed your last haw, pardner.

From a south american perspective, one color, "hates me"

I'll say that it's more like one political party, not the whole group. I honestly don't think most USA Americans (trying to be specific) think much about South America generally. In general the average person here doesn't know much about South America, they may know about a certain dictator or problem. They might think of certain areas like Buenos Aires, Rio De Janeiro, or Bogato because these places appear in the media (like Fast and the Furious or the Rundown). In general the average person will never go to one of these places but sees it as mysterious, potentially exciting, but also potentially dangerous place (to be fair they also look at places like NYC and Las Angeles the same way).
Disdain for South Americans mostly comes from the idea that you might want to immigrate and
https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.5059047051.8318/st,small,507x507-pad,600x600,f8f8f8.jpg
It's entirely grounded in racism, fear of change and fear of the unknown. The other group really doesn't care too much and would be open to immigration as long as you're not a bad person. Unfortunately our politics have made it so that the smaller group has too much say in these things.
Many areas in the US are plurality Hispanic
- Two areas then.

Put some respek on the peninsula! It's gorgeous up there!

Florida is the Penisula and it has gator
- Penisula?

Eh, not only is it not terribly accurate, but the jokes are overused.

Yeah incest needs to be bigger
- Found the West Virginian.

Washington doesn't deserve to be part of the cowboy. No one cares about the east side of it

More like:

Canada

USA

Mexico

Why would anyone care about second level government zones?

Cowboys, incest, but no meth?

Meth is implicit.

I also know where Vermont (or rather home in the USA) is thanks to Bernie Sanders. But otherwise, pretty accurate.

As a Vermonter I can tell you all you need to know about Vermont is it's a uninhabited forest pepperd with weirdos who are obsessed with maple syrup and farming who also don't like outsiders non Vermont stuff
- It's also the most liberal state isn't it? It's votes in the 'notorious Communist' Bernie Sanders and has tried to pass universal state health care I think?

Can't believe you'd do New England dirty like that

Only the UK and people who have seen the Departed know about us. And I dont think they would be able to point it out on the map.
- Oh god. The Depahted khed. Swear southie is the least charming but somehow most endearing accent
- Is New England an unnofficial name for all the North East liberal States like New York and Boston?

can confirm

The bottom half of New York should be incest, and then New York should be extended to include Canada's big cities

And pasta

Lemons, oranges, incest, lesbian incest and grapefruits

You mean USA.

This probably gives Europeans too much credit.

You have no idea how offensive this is to literally all of us.

Nah, not all. I thought it was pretty funny.

Not even wrong

Food

Add a bubble for "backwoods removed" from Georgia (minus Atlanta), the Carolinas, Tennessee, and the Virginias and you're dead on.

I mean thats what happens when you murder or drive out all the original inhabitants. Then you get to start your own history, that was the point, right guys?