Remember the famous New Yorker cartoon that depicted America from a New Yorker's point of view? It showed 9th Avenue, 10th Avenue, New Jersey, a few mountains and the Pacific Ocean?
A fun and fascinating pair of books from Yanko Tsvetkov (recently featured on Wired.com) takes that concept a step further and labels parts of the world from a number of countries' prejudiced viewpoints.
While Americans see France as "Smelly Armpits" and Russia as "Commies," Sweden views them as "Very Crappy Cars" and "Evil People."
Yeah...it's called judgemental prejudice. And these "Atlases" attack it with humor, suggesting that we really should know better.
Humor and satire is what will set us free.
If we let it.
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