As someone who’s lived in Japan roughly a decade, Finland would either be Santa or aurora based on everyone I’ve talked to. There are plenty of stereotypes (some of which are accurate in my mind), but this map seems a bit weird
As a person who is Swiss and has lived a while in Japan, everyone says “Heidi”. I think Heidi/the alps is the biggest stereotype of Switzerland to japanese people, not banking.
Source, out of curiosity as a long-time foreign resident of Japan?
Source: trust me bro
As someone who’s lived in Japan roughly a decade, Finland would either be Santa or aurora based on everyone I’ve talked to. There are plenty of stereotypes (some of which are accurate in my mind), but this map seems a bit weird
As a person who is Swiss and has lived a while in Japan, everyone says “Heidi”. I think Heidi/the alps is the biggest stereotype of Switzerland to japanese people, not banking.
What’s “Heidi”? I need to ask my wife about this one. Is the pronunciation like German on this word for reference?
It’s a swiss story about a little girl who lives and herds cows in the alpine pastures.
And it got turned into a really popular japanese kids anime.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi,_Girl_of_the_Alps
Yeah the pronunciation is german but Japanese people tend to pronounce it Haiji ハイジ.
Thanks for responding. I’ll check it out tomorrow (and ask my wife if she’s heard of it)
Edit: after clicking the link, I have definitely seen the image wiki uses several times