July 13, 2003

MONOWOG

Live from the EU, Mark Steyn covers the launch of the Single European Stereotype:

M Giscard explained that the creation of the new Single European Stereotype, or the "stEureotype", had been inspired by Robin Cook's claim that ‘the modern Europe is built on the rejection of ethnic stereotypes' ... "And I think to myself is it not time to 'armonise these outdated stereotypes into a modern efficient European identity we can all embrace - the obnoxious garlic-breathed drunken homosexual concentration-camp bullfighter who's into organised crime."

Posted by Tim Blair at July 13, 2003 01:33 AM
Comments

No cheese? No surrender?

What kind of crappy stereotype is that?

Posted by: Joe G. at July 13, 2003 at 02:37 AM

Yeah the surrender monkeyness definitely needs to be thrown in there somwhere. Maybe in between "bullfighter" and "who's"

Posted by: Tom at July 13, 2003 at 04:39 AM

Why doesn't the stereotype include welfare junkies?

Don't forget the Scandanavians. :)

Posted by: PJ at July 13, 2003 at 10:10 AM

PJ - That would be junkies on welfare.

Posted by: Jason at July 13, 2003 at 11:33 AM

What about humourless neo-Nazi concentration camp guards ?

Posted by: Rob at July 13, 2003 at 03:27 PM

How does that old joke go? In Heaven the chefs are European, the police are European, the engineers are European, the bankers are European, and the lovers are European; while in Hell the chefs are European, the police are European, the engineers are European, the bankers are European, and the lovers are European.

Posted by: Paul Zrimsek at July 14, 2003 at 03:55 AM

The version of that joke I've heard is this:

In European heaven the police are English, the chefs are French, the mechanics are German, the Swiss are the bankers, and the Italians are the lovers.

In European hell the police are German, the chefs are English, the mechanics are French, the Italians are the bankers and the Swiss are the lovers.

Posted by: Randy R. at July 14, 2003 at 04:14 AM

Steroetypes, hmmmn: repeated French and german attempts to impose by military force totalitarianism on the world -don't forget Napolean.

Posted by: d at July 14, 2003 at 03:47 PM