Let's talk about countries!

Blog created to talk about what people associate with countries around the world! Inspired by @thestategame

[countriesgame]

Hello and welcome to this game!

Inspired by @thestategame I'm creating a version with countries.

I'm going to be collecting associations in the google forms so it's not just my opinions and then what associations come up the most are going to show up in the polls.

Every official country has already been posted and you can see the list of every poll on the blog right here:

Polls that are currently open

Closed polls

I am opening the blog to non-country places as well (including places that want independence and places that don't but are distinct enough to warrant a poll), and you can suggest places you'd like to see a poll here. Instructions on the form.

>>>>Tell me your associations with places here&lt;<<<

Please notice that posting a poll is NOT an endorsement of these places' independence or anything. I am aware these places are not countries, I just don't feel like changing the url.

You can send anything you like as an association. Food, people, locations, art, characters, movies, concepts, adjectives.

I recognize that associations are going to end up being stereotypical and often that ends up being racist. Since I only have one (1) nationality I'm not an expert on knowing what is going to be considered offensive for every country and some lines are blurry. The same thing can be said for different countries and in one case be racist and in the other not really.

Taking that in consideration, I will allow anything to be submitted and decide in individual cases if something can be considered too offensive to enter the game. Am I going to be wrong? Probably many times.

But the point of making this kind of game is celebrating different countries and having a space when people can "well actually" about their own countries.

So if you see something about your country that does not represent it, it's an opportunity to come say why and correct people. Also you can say things that you think everyone SHOULD know about your country instead!

I just think it makes more sense to make it an educative moment than just having me not add anything that seems negative in the poll!

I try to check stuff that I'm not sure if it's true, but there are many countries and sometimes I get tired and forget. So if any option is wrong, inappropriate or just offensive you can tell me. I will edit the post to correct it (polls are not editable, but I can add an observation under it) or delete the entire poll and redo it in case of offensive associations.

I've been trying to contact people from the places before the poll, but not every place has volunteers. If you'd like to talk about your country, check to see if it's included in the next form! If your country's poll is already up or closed, you can still reblog and add it.

If you talked about a country in a post and would like me to reblog it, please mention me in the post or send me a message (ask or DM). Sometimes it gets lost in the notes or I'm not sure if the person wants me to reblog it.

Suggestions are welcomed!

Polls that are currently open

Closed polls

Suggest places

[abandonedography]

This Istanbul house was built in four historical eras

First floor: columns from Eastern Roman (Byzantine) era.

Second floor: archs from "again" Eastern Roman era.

Third floor: stonewalls from Ottoman Empire era.

Fourth floor: mud bricks from the first years of the Republic of Turkey.

[deletingmyself]

(by Seele An)| Hangzhou, China

[expressions-of-nature]

Glow Worm Caves, New Zealand by Daniel Kordan

[suturesque]

vodun day, 2020 benin. julio sacristan

[folkfashion]

Betsimisaraka duo, Madagascar, by HYL58

[folkfashion]

Antiguan woman, Latisha Browne, Antigua and Barbuda, The Grenada Students' Association - Grensac, UWI Cave Hill Campus

[realmoftheacornking]

Gay Motorcycle Rally, San Francisco, 1976.

William Gedney Photography

[gacougnol]

Unknown

Palestinians fishermen in the Port of Jaffa Palestine 1948

[folkfashion]

Samoan man, Samoa, by Careena Tipoti

[folkfashion]

I-Kiribati dancer, Kiribati, by tourismkiribati

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: This is the first time I've seen the Yellow River's sediment discharge with my own eyes.

[jingyuanyuan]

There's a Chinese meme that the Yellow River doesn't need rituals to present sacrifices because if it's hungry it'll come onto the shore and eat the sacrifices itself.

[asmuchasidliketo]

#some netizens also say chinese people like unification because only a powerful unified dynasty can survive the yellow river and sometimes #also the chang jiang when they decide to flood and change directions and kill and displace millions #also only large dynasties have the resources to do hydroengineering to try and control the yellow river #yellow river be like: if you don't hydroengineer you die #but if you do you might also die heehee #“we call these our mother rivers not because they are gentle but because we are too scared” tags on above post

(source: Wikipedia)

[setnet]

@mikkeneko

[solcoil]

upano valley

recently discovered

[petitworld]

Hitachi Seaside Park, Ibaraki, Hitachinaka, Japan by Aco

[expressions-of-nature]

Uvac Special Nature Reserve, Serbia by Aleksandar Bubanja

[gacougnol]

Steve McCurry

Cammino di Francesco – Rieti, Italy

[thatmadscientistbitch]

I'm sorry but this photo got me emotional - this moment could have been from any time in the last 500 or more years and not a thing about the composition would have changed. Certainly, for hundreds of years, monks have worked in these gardens and stopped to pet animals in need of scritches. A monk 300 years ago dressed in this same style in these same gardens probably stopped to pet the ancestor of that cat. The only difference between now and then is that this time there was a camera. If you went to any monastery or temple in the world you could find similar scenes playing out.

People stop to pet cats and it has me emotional.

[kurja-tales]

Rajasthani Architecture #2