Eighteenth-Century European Stereotype Table

Brief descriptions of peoples to be found in Europe and their characteristics × | Spaniard | Frenchman | Italian | German | Englishman | Swede | Pole | Hungarian | Russian | Turk or Greek Manners | Haughty | Frivolous | Treacherously | Openhearted | Handsome | Strong & big | Boorish | Disloyal | Malicious | Changeable like April Character and personal... | Wondrous, marvellous | Amiable & talkative | Jealous | Quite good | Charming | Cruel | More cruel | Most cruel | Really Hungarian | A lying devil Intellect | Clever & wise | Cautious | Sagacious | Reasonable & understanding | Graceful | Adamant | Disdainful | More disdainful | Nothing | Pretentious Traits | Manly | Childish | Opportunistic | Imitative | Womanly | Inscrutable | Mediocre | Blood-thirsty | Very crude | Tender Sciences | Theology | Warfare | Canon law | Jurisprudence | Geography | Liberal arts | Languages | Latin | Greek | Political perfidy Costume, fashion | Respectable | Variable | Modest | Imitates others | After French fashion | Leather | Long coat | Many-coloured | Furs | Effeminate Vices | Vain | Deceitful | Lecherous | Prodigal | Restless | Superstitious | Hoggish | Treacherous | More treacherous | Most treacherous Preferences | Honour & Glory | War | Gold | Drinking | Amenities | Exquisite food | Aristocracy | Rebellion | Beating | Narcissism Diseases | Constipation | Syphilis | The Plague | Gout | Consumption | Dropsy | Diarrhoea | Epilepsy | Whooping cough | Debilitation Their countries | Fertile | Well-cultivated | Handsome & delightful | Good | Fertile | Mountainous | Wooded | Rich in gold and fruit | Icy | Pleasant War virtues | Generous | Cunning | Cautious | Invincible | Heroic at sea | Undaunted | Impetuous | Insurgent | Cumbersome | Lazy Piety | Outstanding | Good | A tad better | Very pious | Changeable like the moon | Zealous | Believes all sorts of things | Energetic | An infidel | The same Their master | A monarch | A king | A patriarch | An emperor | Now one, now another | Liberal | A chosen one | A predestined one | A volunteer | A tyrant Superfluity in | Fruit | Commodities | Wine | Grain | Pastures | Iron-ore mines | Furs | Everything | Bees | Soft things Pastimes | Games | Cheating | Gossip | Drinking | Working | Eating | Bickering | Idleness | Sleeping | Ailing Equivalent animal | Elephant | Fox | Lynx | Lion | Horse | Ox | Bear | Wolf | Donkey | Cat Death | In bed | In war | In a monastery | In wine | In water | On the ground | In the stable | By sabre | In the snow | In fraud

A historical-looking table lists stereotypical traits, preferences, illnesses, virtues, animals, and deaths supposedly associated with European peoples. The joke is the exaggerated racist absurdity of presenting crude national stereotypes as a neat reference chart, especially when shared as a reaction to someone discovering an old “table of racism.”

• @antichirst / 16749 2024-05-27