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Almost immediately after returning from a multi-continent trip, local man Joe Douglas was asked to validate a slew of stereotypes about the countries he visited.
“They eat snails over there, right? And they smoke all the time, too?” Douglas was asked when he told a friend he had spent time in Paris. Douglas was then asked to confirm that yes, they have mimes there and everyone talks funny.
“Well, they speak French,” Douglas said.
“I heard Brazil is pretty dangerous,” said Douglas’s friend Mark Sosa. When Douglas asserted that he’d felt pretty safe the whole time and hadn’t been pickpocketed, Sosa added, “They can probably tell who has a lot of money I guess.”
“I don’t know, maybe,” Douglas confirmed.
Several of Douglas’s friends asked him to confirm their assumptions that Japanese people eat sushi all the time and wear kimonos. “People pretty much just wore regular clothes,” said Douglas.
“But they wear a lot of stuff with Hello Kitty on it, right?” said Sosa. “That’s really big there.”
As of press time, Douglas’s friends were all eating McDonald’s at a shooting range.
