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<p>76.84.33.98: /* Explanation */</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 850<br /> | date = January 21, 2011<br /> | title = World According to Americans<br /> | image = world according to americans.png<br /> | imagesize = <br /> | titletext = It's not our fault we caught a group on their way home from a geography bee. And they taught us that Uzbekistan is one of the world's two doubly-landlocked countries!<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> There’s a somewhat well-circulated image on the internet entitled “The World According to Americans” which plays on the stereotype of the ignorant American. In it, the entirety of Eastern Europe and most of Asia are entitled “commies” and the Middle-East as “evil-doers,” and so on.<br /> Later, other people created similar maps to re-do the concept. It later spread to other cultures.<br /> This comic is an anti-joke playing on that idea. You expect to see something which plays on the stereotypes that exist in American culture of various parts of the world. However, instead, the map is remarkably well-informed. The title-text expands on the joke.<br /> <br /> A landlocked country is a country that does not border any major bodies of water. Furthering the concept, a doubly-landlocked country is a country that not only has no connection to water, but is only bordered by ''other'' landlocked countries. As the title-text states, there are only two such countries in the world (as of 2012): Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}} <br /> [[Category:Comics with color]]</div>

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