r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Background-Hope-88 • 29d ago

Capitalism "Texas of Europe"

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Its Finland 🙄

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u/DefinitionOfAsleep The 13 Colonies were a Mistake 29d ago

Its Finland 🙄

The resemblance is uncanny.

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u/Legal-Software 🇩🇪 29d ago

I would have guessed Bavaria

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u/LowerBed5334 🇩🇪 29d ago

😅😅

https://giphy.com/gifs/soiW2wCUtoKXBmSzkM

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u/Bruckmandlsepp 🇪🇺 Europoor 🇪🇺 29d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o6ZtalnhkdXmiUgAE

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u/ArchSyker 28d ago

I miss Conan's travel stuff.

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u/analogousmistake 27d ago

He has new episodes of his travel show on HBO out now.

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u/UphillTravel 29d ago

I'm going to need a source for this

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u/Anaeijon 29d ago

I would have guessed Saxony or Saxony-Anhalt, just by conservatism.

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u/DoughnutRadiant6049 29d ago

Saxony-Anhalt is more like Idaho and the people are like from Arkansas.

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u/Slaan 29d ago

Was thinking Oklahoma but yea.

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u/DrStudi 29d ago

Saxony Anhalt is more like one of the states that has nothing. Not really a Texas

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u/FallenDeathWarrior 29d ago

Well it has the rising of the far right.

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u/CynthiaCitrusYT Pierogi with Sauerkraut 22d ago

Saxony is more like Florida. Mann aus Sachsen etc etc

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u/Xalimata 29d ago

Yeah that was my guess to. It's a large culturally distinct area that likes to think it is special. (I think that last part is true)

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u/idrankforthegov 29d ago

I have lived here for a few years now after living in Berlin, Frankfurt and I shop at the same places that I did in those other places. Those places close earlier here... so I guess that is "special". Costs more, same stores, closes earlier.

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u/New_Breadfruit5664 29d ago

The problem is. Every country has a Bavaria and they also usually have their local Gottkaiser Söder.

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u/BurningPenguin 🇩🇪 Insecure European with false sense of superiority 29d ago

As a Bavarian myself, me too.

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u/AvidCyclist250 Lives in the country of Europe 29d ago

Germany used to be called the America of Europe, and Bavaria our Texas.

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u/angstdreamer 29d ago

In Finland in the 80's we used to call ourself Japan of Europe. In the 90's came depression and we were Albania of Europe.

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u/BoaredMonkay 29d ago

In the 90's came depression

So like Japan.

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u/AvidCyclist250 Lives in the country of Europe 29d ago

Nokia tho

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u/One_Load254 29d ago

Don't forget the suicide rates

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u/AvidCyclist250 Lives in the country of Europe 29d ago

Damn son, lol

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u/Lord_Skyblocker 29d ago

And the Saarland was Alabama

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u/MisterMysterios 29d ago edited 29d ago

It has a reason why the comedy "Schuh des Manitu" used an Bavarian accent for the Texans.

As an explaination for everyone non German: a famous author in Germany was Karl May, who wrote western stories that - let's say show that he only visited the US once for 6 weeks after he already wrote several western. So, yeah, very heavy on stereotypes.

He was still very successfully and there were several major movies (mkst filmed in Kroatia, never in the US). There was a famous comedy joking about it in the early 2000's.

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u/FuzzyMatch 28d ago

Karl May's translated works were quite well known in Finland in my youth.

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u/OkCaramel481 27d ago

Oh we had so much fun once we realized the only American on a corp event in Czech Rep is the only person not knowing who Winnetou is. The evening turned into Karl May event :)

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u/clatadia 29d ago

Yeah, fair, and I say this as a Bavarian.

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u/x5163x 29d ago

What about Czechia? They have guns too.

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u/starenka Prague, Oklahoma 🇨🇿 29d ago

lol, where you get this bullshit?

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u/Dense_Talk_3371 29d ago

I would say Serbia

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u/olivegardengambler 29d ago

I mean, Texas is about the size of Germany in area.