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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 32 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Source, out of curiosity as a long-time foreign resident of Japan?

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 41 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As someone who's lived in Japan roughly a decade, Finland would either be Santa or aurora based on everyone I've talked to. There are plenty of stereotypes (some of which are accurate in my mind), but this map seems a bit weird

[–] spookex@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

The usual reaction to me mentioning that I'm from Latvia here is: "Where? and where is that on the map?"

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

I don't care how they got their data, I just love that they ended up with this:

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As a person who is Swiss and has lived a while in Japan, everyone says “Heidi”. I think Heidi/the alps is the biggest stereotype of Switzerland to japanese people, not banking.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What's "Heidi"? I need to ask my wife about this one. Is the pronunciation like German on this word for reference?

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It’s a swiss story about a little girl who lives and herds cows in the alpine pastures.

And it got turned into a really popular japanese kids anime.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi,_Girl_of_the_Alps

Yeah the pronunciation is german but Japanese people tend to pronounce it Haiji ハイジ.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for responding. I'll check it out tomorrow (and ask my wife if she's heard of it)

Edit: after clicking the link, I have definitely seen the image wiki uses several times

[–] Louisoix@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Same here, but I've noticed that, at least from my circle here, people don't know too much about countries in Europe. Not that they really should, I guess. I'm from the Czech Republic, and usually I should point it on a map for people to understand better where it is.