13 People Share What’s The Myth That Many Foreigners Still Accept As Reality About Their Country

Each country has a unique history, a unique culture, and usually a unique language as well. But despite all that, some of them are well known for other reasons – for myths that often have nothing in common with the truth.

Such myths were recently discussed by members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community after one user asked them about the false narratives about their countries. Quite a few people contributed to the thread, so if you want to see if something you believed about a certain country is but a myth, scroll down to find the netizens’ comments on the list below.

13 PHOTOS

#1

Canadians are nice.

We are not nice. We are polite.

That means we say “ excuse me”, please” and “thank you” appropriately.

“Excuse me, could you please take all this 51st state b******t to a corner somewhere and f**k yourself with it? Thank you.”.

#2

Canada is not a frozen wasteland all the time. We have Summer here. It's my favorite day of the year.

#3

That America has a democracy.

#4

Romania: that we have vampires…. Please, my friend Vlad has not seen a single vampire in the past 300 years.

Also, our national anthem begins with “wake up from your slumber of death”. :).

#5

America was founded for religious freedom.  The Pilgrims were intolerant bigots, driven out of everywhere else because of their intolerance and zealotry.

They also didn't start America.  The Jamestown Colony was the "start" and it was a 'company town'.  So America was founded for corporate wealth expansion.

#6

Wales - Most of us have purely platonic feelings towards sheep.

#7

Japan is not like what you see on the internet. Japanese are not the nicest most polite people. Japanese smile a lot due to social pressure but they think “I hate you”

The working culture here is bad with very little work-life balance. The government is just as corrupt as America. It’s very crowded and fairly expensive to the point that people are no longer having babies.

It’s a great country to visit for like two weeks. But living here, it’s very difficult to survive ESPECIALLY if you don’t speak any Japanese.

Edit: Also, all that nerdy Anime s**t is also considered nerdy Anime s**t here too.

#8

French are not cowards and we do not surrender or run away in every war.
Countless military words have French etymology because we were the dominant military power for centuries. It is true we collapsed in 1940 and disgraced ourselves, but that one event does not erase everything else
It is especially annoying coming from illiterate US simpletons who are not aware of the role the French military played in the American War of Independence.

#9

The myth is that America is the land of opportunity.

#10

"Iceland has an app everybody uses to see if they are related before having sex". While it is true that it was an app, the app was made as a joke. Iceland has birth records so extensive and complete, I can trace my family back 33 generations to Úlfur Óargi who was born in 740.

So a group of students made a joke app called "Incest Spoiler" which used this data to show you how closely related any two people were, but nobody has seriously used it.

#11

Well, I'd say that we don't eat pasta daily, but we Italians f*****g do.

#12

That New Zealand is 'clean and green'. Around 60% of the rivers are unswimmable due to pollution.

#13

The country is called Holland. Holland is just 2 of the 12 provinces, the only two most people visit.