National stereotype
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- “Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian and it is all organised by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the cooks are English, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, and it is all organised by the Italians”.
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Mission
Identify national and/or ethnic stereotypes by way of the population's countercultures, its avant-garde, its underground, its subcultures and its taste in the erotic and horror genres.
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See
- Culture by region
- Anti-national sentiment
- Cultures of present-day nations and states
- Ethnic stereotypes in popular culture
- Stereotypes of White Americans and Europeans
- Volksgeist
- Stereotype
- National character
- National psychology
- Nationalism
- Country
- Ethnicity
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