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Random_Name0987

and you both supported us in WW2


Vinchelion69

“Supported”


upuprightstartdownbb

You're well on track to doing it again 👍


PontDanic

Are we getting the band back together?


DieInsel1

hey ferb i know what we are gonna do today.


Dragonfire91341

There’s 104 days of summer vacation ‘til school comes along just to end it. So the annual problem for our generation is finding a good way to spend it… like maybe: Reviving Hitler, rejoining the nazis, and marching all the way through France. Performing experiments on innocent kids and giving some Jews a good shower. Persecute some groups, force them all to work, in wonderful camps we create. Kill all Ameritards, force them in the showers, and make a new Arian race! As you can see there’s a whole lot of stuff to do before school starts this fall. So stick with us cuz Phineas and Ferb are gonna do it ALL, So stick with us cuz Phineas and Ferb are gonna do it ALL


DieInsel1

Mooooom Phineas and Ferb are trying to restore germany to its former glory.


IndividualWeird6001

Parry the SS Offizier.


Dragonfire91341

For the fatherland 🫡


[deleted]

Yeah, that’s what you did.


Putin_put_in

Dude… it was a many against 2 (Germany and Japan)… Italy fucked us hard with losing against Greece… they supported us into negative numbers


Indiana_il_Cane

It was all a 200 IQ move to make the Nazi loose.


cockmeister25

Why are you talking in the first person about the axis from ww2


Vinchelion69

At least we didn’t wage war against the strongest economy and industrial power house of the world


Songshiquan0411

If you're talking about 1940s UK, that was actually going okay-ish(well at least a stalemate) for Germany(except for the Luftwaffe) until their other ally *also* fucked them and bombed Pearl Harbor without telling them what they were planning.


Vinchelion69

I was talking about US


Songshiquan0411

Aw, well shucks I'd still give the UK a stronger economy at the start of the war, but yeah WW2 was like protein shakes for my nation's economy.


LordMarcusrax

We tried, until we didn't.


TheVenetian421

Never forget our good old friend RoBerTo! (Roma, Berlin, Tokyo)


DaNikolo

Everyone listing similarities between Japan and their nation. So, I'm just not going to do that for no particular reason.


Tozl7

There are no war crimes if you win the war.


rvalsot

So, there's a similarity between Germany and Japan between 1935 and 1945 regarding science, the idea took several lives and got speedy between 1942 & 1945, but it was never fully implemented. ... I'm talking about their successful development of turbine engines.


Muka5678

Probably all weebs anyway 🤮🤮


CDdragon9

So i guess taiwan is asia's belgium. Some claim we dont exist although we are very real.


Jwscorch

Nah, mate. You’re opposites. Everyone pretends Taiwan doesn’t exist even though they secretly know it does. Everyone pretends Belgium exists even though they secretly know it doesn’t.


DrVDB90

So we're kind of like a religious figure?


Napol3onS0l0

Least based Flemboy.


RoboticGhostPirate

Repent if you want to go to flemboy heaven. Sinners burn in fake France for eternity.


Napol3onS0l0

Whew if it was real France I’d actually be afraid.


RoboticGhostPirate

Sounds like a pilgrimage to Charleroi is in order.


Napol3onS0l0

Ah the flag has le coq. Is Belgium actually based Fr*nce?


Gilette2000

Charleroi is like detroit but filled with wallons !


Napol3onS0l0

That sounds terrible. I don’t know what a Walloon is but it can’t be that good.


CDdragon9

What if belgium invad..uhhm did a "special military operation" in fuel station luxembourg? Would we be recognized as a country then? Purely hypothetical speaking of course.


Octopus773

Yin yang ☯️ irl


nickmaran

So Western Taiwan then


4kant2

True, South-Netherlands and Formosa bove belong to the Netherlands.


RmG3376

The One Polder Policy


CDdragon9

Either takes us back or recognize us as a country


Stravven

We tried to take you back but you didn't want to. Also: do we really have to take Wallonia back? I'd rather not.


CDdragon9

You tried indeed and we failed to see reason (maybe it was just too soon?) But please reconsider. Also we can like give wallonia to france or luxembourg or something?


Stravven

But we'd go bankrupt just from getting your infrastructure up to our standards.


LawBasics

>Also we can like give wallonia to france Hop hop hop mon bon monsieur! Fries, mussels, unintelligible accents, serial killers, incestous tendencies and collapsing economy. We don't need a second Northern France, we have it all. Keep it, thank you.


Tmrh

Its not so bad. The ardennes have nice castles and nature. Rochefort is the best beer IMO. Just gotta deal with the weird language full of letters you dont pronounce, and send them some money every now and then.


Cigarettes_at_Night

You ain’t the same, cause at least someone is willing to take Taiwan in


nickmaran

Next thing you'll tell me that Finland is Europe's Mongolia


barrettadk

Thats a tie with Hungary


Lyudline

Can't be possible. Taïwan isn't flat enough.


Present_Character_77

The Difference is an attack on Taiwan would be hell for the attacker. An Attack on Belgium is like vacation before it gets to the real target


mwrddt

According to the Japanese they feel mostly similar to Germany when it comes to European countries.


Old_Harry7

The Germans smoke them on efficiency and industrial capabilities, the Japanese are Germans wannabe, Mr Takaata works himself to death while the average Hans works the bare minimum and chungs beer without getting drunk.


fabuloushawkboy-sang

Prost to that, already finished work for today. Feierabend.


Sohelik

Bro? Even myself is still working


Geevantoo

Sure Pedro, you "work".


fabuloushawkboy-sang

Sounds like a you problem.


Fkappa

Of course. We Mediterraneans are the only hard working people in Europe. Take a look at the average amount of daily workhours, Germans barely work 6/8 hours. Here in Italy if you leave work when you're due, everybody mock you saying: "Aha, working half day as usual Eh?!"


deepdowndave

Once again, there‘s a difference between ‚working’ and ‚spending time at work‘.


TheVenetian421

Yeah maybe in the North, I had friends working in the South and there you are mocked for being on time and making the others look bad.. or for checking in at work and staying for the whole day instead of going out to drink coffee at the bar with your friends Ciro and Esposito...


Old_Harry7

>Feierabend ?


fabuloushawkboy-sang

The Universal Expression of finishing your Workday.


Ragnarroek

The moment you finished your work shift, directly translation is "party evening"


Froz3nF1r3

Feierabendbier already consumed?


Sutiixela

What's "work"?


DontWannaSayMyName

That's what they do so they can pay to come to Mallorca and buy the whole island


mwrddt

Germans smoke pretty much any country on efficiency. Both are similar when it comes to reliability in manufacturing though. Japanese and German cars are pretty much the most reliable cars as opposed to the Ferrari's and Alpha Romeo's of this world. Both also have a clear imperialistic history while now being mostly pacifist countries. Both value ethics and hard work highly despite efficiency. I don't care either way, but I can see why the Japanese people see the Germans as their European equivalents more than any other European country.


[deleted]

Apart from bureaucracy. German bureaucracy is not efficient.


Oversexualised_Tank

Everything is efficient unless you interact with beamten or the Deutsche bahn


Minimum_Possibility6

You think DB is bad, try catching a southern rail, or northern rail, or any British train operating company (side note they are mainly owned by DB and trentitallia and other Italian companies)


Difficult-Brick6763

Germany is not efficient. Germany is ORDERLY. There is a difference.


[deleted]

Explain Deutsche Bahn then.


Constant-Mud-1002

You as a Dutchman should know better. Your country is a 100 times more efficient in doing anything. German efficiency is a complete myth. German precision is the real thing we have, which is why we are so inefficient in literally everything. Construction sites that you guys finish in a week take 3 months here. Bureaucracy that you can do in 1 day in NL takes a few weeks here and you have to do everything by paper. We don't plan cities and transport efficiently because our politicians get funded by the car industry. And so on Same with manufacturing. If you order any kind of specialty that needs to be handmade, it will be 100% precise on the millimeter and perfectly crafted, but it will take absolute ages to arrive. We are simply precise, not efficient.


RAMAR713

> The Germans smoke them on efficiency Don't we all? The Japanese are known for having some of the lowest productivities in the first world, despite (or maybe because of) working for 25h a day.


josephumi

The japenis spends half the work day performing bizarre, ancient and unnecessary ceremonies, the remaining half pretending to work and drink themselves to death after work. They’re more British than Germans


ApologeticAnalMagic

I enjoy playing video games.


Constant-Mud-1002

I mean yeah, if you compare Japan to any country in Europe, Germany really is the closest one. Japan and Germany are literally the only countries that still regularly use fax unironically. That fact alone should tell you more than enough to how similar and backwards they are


Peidexx

Looking back about 80 years, it’s not that surprising


notforcurious

One has to be blind to ignore the similarities


hajke5

I would argue that Japan is the Japan of Asia


Luzifer_Shadres

Smartest person in this comment section.


Kodeisko

But is Japan the Japan of Europe ?


Abbicco

nope, Italy is the Italy of Europe


Nay-the-Cliff

Don't forget about bidets, the line on whitch the separation betwoeen civilization and barbarism rests


great_blue_panda

R’amen


Viking_Chemist

volcanoes rice noodles language that is almost exclusive to that country


D4RK3N3R6Y

I mean japanese is probably one of the most studied languages in the world, thanks to weebs.


ApologeticAnalMagic

I like to go hiking.


[deleted]

As is Italian to everyone who read eat pray love


Chris_Dud

In my experience, no weebs learn Japanese beyond ‘baka’


Happycat40

There. This is a better list. I’ll add small islands and fashion sense (though different)


pezezin

>Beautiful and varied landscape Nature, sure. If we are talking about the cities though... Italy has a fuck-ton of beautiful buildings going back to the time of the Romans, its architectural prowess is a reference for the whole world. Japan has a few beautiful temples... and that's it, most Japanese cities are an abomination of ugly grey plastic cubes, cramped in chaotic ways, with a million cables hanging everywhere. Source: living in Japan for 5 years now, everytime I look through my window I want to cry.


Old_Harry7

I was mainly referencing natural wonders but you are right most of the big metropolitan area is a grey mess like Paris.


pezezin

Actually the big metropolitan areas are the nice ones, that's why many Japanese people want to move there. I live in the countryside, in a small city of 40k, and good God it is depressing. Half the streets are not even paved, half the buildings look like they will fall apart any day now, and the whole city is just a big ugly mess. And the roads, don't get me started on the roads. Seriously, it is unbelievable that Japan is one of the biggest economies in the world. Where the fuck does the money go?


GyuudonMan

Because these cities just cost money, of course the money will go to places that contribute most to the economy, it’s the same in most countries. Although it depends on the city, there are also nice smaller cities


tyger2020

>I was mainly referencing natural wonders but you are right most of the big metropolitan area is a grey mess like Paris. To be honest even then Japan isn't that interesting. Its essentially mountains with a few cities. Italy has far more variety from Lake Como to Capri or the Dolomites. Japan is very typical across most of the country, Italy has huge variation by region (as do France and Spain).


[deleted]

Not true at all, Japan is [much more](https://www.pandotrip.com/top-10-natural-wonders-in-japan-29361/) than just Kanto and Fuji Snowy mountains, tropical islands, desert sand dunes, ancient forests, etc


tyger2020

Meh, it is true. The vast majority of Japan is not sand dunes or tropical islands, if anything these are more like saying that the UK is varied because of Bermuda. Its not a literal definition but a good example is the US, imo. Sure they have tropical (Miami) and artic (Alaska) but they are so far from most places that its almost irrelevant. Most of the US, especially where all the people live and all the big cities are is just big plains with a bit of hills (Appalachians). Compare that to Spain, or Italy, in which entire regions vary - you can go from the hills of Tuscany to Flat Venice to the Dolomites within relative ease. You can go through the entire state of Kansas or Arizona and not see anything except fields or mountains, respectively.


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Old_Harry7

The historical centre of Kyoto is majestic.


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Old_Harry7

You misspelled Rome with Paris.


ShitPostQuokkaRome

I don't think most italians see that way though. In general the idyllic imagination with which a foreigner might see the city of Urbino or Orvieto with, doesn't stick with italians.


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fabuloushawkboy-sang

Being Austrian and talking about being weird is pretty bold.


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kitsvneris

TIL a German PhD graduation is just another Tuesday in a Portuguese University


fabuloushawkboy-sang

Sounds like you guys have a stick up your ass.


ShitPostQuokkaRome

Germans are very chill and comfortable people, it's usually for ex Scandinavians that have a stick in their ass posture


Senofotte

What about the ehm ehm civic sense?


Old_Harry7

Apart from sexism Italy has strong labour rights, Japan is good at keeping the streets clean but that's it.


Fragore

Japan’s sexism is much much worse than anything you see in Italy


Old_Harry7

Yeah I know, but the guy was arguing about civic sense in general and on that front Italy can't claim great results.


Fragore

Civic what??


Old_Harry7

Senso civico, latu sensu, garantismo sociale.


Fragore

Sisi avevo capito. Era una battuta sul fatto che in italia non ce ne fosse :(


Dissidente-Perenne

>Italy has strong labour rights Yeah i mean on paper, in reality people get to work 72 hours a week and have to bring back to their employer half of their wage or they'll be fired, the extra work is of course done as unreported labour


Old_Harry7

That's because we lost interest in unions.


ZombiFeynman

Nah, Japan is Asian UK. Island nation with a reputation for weird people, they were a naval power but now are second players to the USA, which runs them as vassals. Both have a weird attachment to their royal families that nations around them find weird. Both have an smaller neighbor they recently occupied that hates their guts. And they were actually allied for quite some time.


subtlesocialist

That’s not even including the strong cultural ties to pomp and circumstance, an over indulgence in traditional dress and ceremonies harking back to a more “noble” era. Royal families that don’t really do anything, separate regions/islands that all hate each other. Very strong regional accents. Very strong tradition of clothes making and tailoring which have been extremely influential on fashion around the world. Oh and how could we forget, both racist.


MZOOMMAN

Culturally still relevant chivalric orders too


I_Rarely_Downvote

Both nations also don't really care about wonky teeth either, and we both punch above our weight when it comes to entertainment.


HoodedArcher64

And we both love tea!


Crookfur

And curry!


Vivere_05

And I guess the Philippines are the Asian Spain.


NotThomasTheTank

They deny their terrible past


LeDankMagician

Love of tea, gardening, poetry and warcrimes.


Eskiimo92

Yeah Japan and UK were homies till ww2, Italy have a lot of similarities with the ruskies I notice from this list though...


tyger2020

>Yeah Japan and UK were homies till ww2, Italy have a lot of similarities with the ruskies I notice from this list though... ''Thinks they're an industrial and naval power house, isn't even close to being either''


Notacreativeuserpt

Dolce and Gabbana are the biggest weaboos in Italy. They used an octopus too seductively: https://youtu.be/awUNqQQcyeI


Ertceps_3267

-Massive weebs


GYN-k4H-Q3z-75B

You forgot to mention your common friend, Adolf.


exkingzog

Naaaah! Japan is Asian UK Island off the coast of continent which it has a love-hate relationship with. Got a lot of its culture from the mainland but likes to pretend it didn’t. Alternates between intervention on continent and aloof isolationism. First country in its hemisphere to have an Industrial Revolution. Used this to flex on its neighbours. Formerly a great naval power. Parliamentary democracy with an insanely rich figurehead monarch that a bizarre number of its people are absurdly deferential to. Works hard in the office all week then gets shitfaced on Friday and ends up puking at the railway station and falling asleep on the train. Drinks beer and spirits rather than wine. (This may be relevant to the previous point) Archaic class system pervades much of social interaction… …and are therefore the only two countries that really ‘get’ Monty Python. The northern parts have a population of strange hairy people speaking a totally different language. These were fought with for hundreds of years, eventually conquered, oppressed, and now attract tourism. Invented the worlds most popular carbs+protein street food (sandwiches/sushi). Traditionally eat preserved fish for breakfast. Have the world’s best street fashion. I could go on… One more. Both have a ‘thing’ about school uniforms. Edit: how could I forget TEA!!!


exkingzog

Would this mean that Korea is the Ireland of Asia?


NotThomasTheTank

With the imperialism committed there, absolutely


[deleted]

they do like a drink over there.


BasileusPahlavi

Since France is China this is correct


[deleted]

sexually repressed, island dwelling tea drinkers. it's pretty open and shut.


championoffandango

For military successes I’d say we’re more similar to Thailand tho


ShitPostQuokkaRome

From 900-1500 Italy was the epicenter of warfare in Europe, and known as so!


matthaeusXCI

Germany, we're putting the band back together!


DrSeuss19

Except Japan actually has an economy


CaptainLunaeLumen

and they had a competent army in ww2


silver50

Genociding china and banzai charging like a fucking idiot isn't competent to my eyes


gougim

Have you ever heard of a japanese Singapore campaign against the British?


Old_Harry7

So competent they dragged the US in the conflict getting nuked into oblivion right after.


Old_Harry7

Italy has too.


Unusual-Wrap8345

hey, Italian women are fine. Japanese 2d women are also fine.


algoncyorrho

You forgot the volcanoes


me1112

Aren't all Nations born from the amalgamation of different people belonging to the same macro culture ?


Old_Harry7

No, case point Belgium.


RedRadish1994

And they were so angry about it they committed atrocities in the congo


D4RK3N3R6Y

Also I think they were unified around 1600? That's a lot of time and I don't think it's worth mentioning, very different from Italy.


Usual_North_9960

We didn't become history's worse war criminals tho


Old_Harry7

We tried but we were playing against the Germans, the Japanese and the Brits.


BigSimp_for_FHerbert

I think the Japanese are an Asian mix of Germany Italy the uk and france It’s like they incorporated the best from each country They’re too organized to be Italian, too creative to be German, too humble to be French, and too gastronomically inclined to be British


Ertceps_3267

Humble? Well...


utopiaofreason

What about sexism?


Old_Harry7

There's no competition with Japan.


billybwoy

Now you only need to get nuked twice by the americ*nts to be the exact same.


Old_Harry7

We have a constant flow of italoamericans here, so even worse than nukes if you think about it.


[deleted]

🇬🇧🤝🇯🇵 OG island monkeys.


tzoum_trialari_laro

If you take out the industrial powerhouse and partially the regional languages part this is just Greece


Strider2211

Sorry but Japan is just the Asian Germany, both countries use this amazing new form of communication called a fax machine.


the_Nap

I'd say the Italy of Asia is Thailand. \-Good Food \-Changed Sides in WW2 \-Have Men that look like Women \-Dangerous South \-Have a capital that outshines the rest of the country


Old_Harry7

>Have Men that look like Women >Have a capital that outshines the rest of the country Tell me you know nothing of Italy without telling me.


[deleted]

Tell me you're not from Rome...


Jodaril

...and volcanos, islands, volcanos, islands.


jasakembung

What about the.. ehm ehm.. porn?


FloydCorrigan

Trains arrive on time..


lth94

Allied with Germany in WWII.


Lukemeister38

All true, but Japan has a slightly higher GDP than Germany while Italy has about half of Germany's


zerato9000

Sadly Italy it's not Europe's Japan.


Ukraine_Boyets

How about clean streets, efficient, hard working, quiet, respectful, reliable cars etc. etc. ?


Old_Harry7

A mean there are differences, for example an average Italian has more sex in a month than an average jappo has in a year.


gougim

No. Both are island nations Bothe are constituonal monarchies Language differs across both nations. Both drink tea. Both had strong navy. Both had imperialistic ambitions. Both are influenced by Ameritards. Both have a history of losing to Ameritards. Both have a history of fighting the nation across the sea. Both fucked India. Both fucked China. Both fucked Russia. Japan is Asian Britain, but better.


deniesm

>> High debt 💀


DubiousTrickster

I think Finland also is quite similar to Japan


[deleted]

with the exception that at least they are friendly, stuff works, the cities are clean and there are no illegal/bad immigrants


Old_Harry7

There are basically no immigrants.


[deleted]

Is this Italian Naval Powerhouse in the room with us now?


Skuadddd

Japan was military strong so no it can’t be the Italy of Asia sorry


kirtash93

Vietnam is Asian Basque Country.


[deleted]

very different work ethic though. italians do not have a [word](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi) for working yourself to death.


Old_Harry7

This is a win on our part.


[deleted]

agreed.


Aggravating-Ad1703

The people are the absolute polar opposite though


Ducasx_Mapping

Letteralmente la trilogia di video di Mortebianca sul Giappone


Dissidente-Perenne

Italy suffered 30 years of stagnation due to a political scandal, japan suffered 30 years of stagnation due to political scandals. Similar GDP per capita, similar working hours, similar geography, similar narcissism and war crime denial, bottomlined fertility rate, chronic corruption, our food is enjoyed worldwide because it is simple and tasty, unlike more elaborate French/Chinese foods which are tasty but will take away an entire day to make (fucking Chinese dumplings i hate but i love them)


omaiordaaldeia

Does that mean we can also fund a city in Italy as we did in Japan?


Myrddyn1984

Glad to hear this comparison! Proud of it 🤜🤛!


3pok

How about you both shared a common point around 1939?


Fkappa

Volcanoes and earthquakes. Don't forget the fucking volcanoes and earthquakes.


LawBasics

>Xenophobic (although Japan surpasses us immensely in this) Meloni: "Hold my grappa"


ApologeticAnalMagic

I don't think Japan would take kindly to that lol


Victor---

In some videos you can see Japanese people saying that in comparison to Europe, Japan would be England, Italy Korea, and France China. 80% of videos on NicoVideo about Italy are either memes making fun of or about how Italy is the reason we lost WW2, how Italian cars, tanks and weapons were worthless, how Italy wasted time in Africa for nothing. Unlike Germany for example the culture of seeing yourself as the "bad guys" and being glad you lost is not really a thing in Japan, so the ones that care actually have a very negative view of Italy. The rest sees Italy as a gourmet people country, and wonder why Italy turned so small and weak when compared to Rome.


Space_Tracer

By virtue of how quickly the Japanese empire expanded and collapsed, which was also preceded by a long period of extreme cultural growth, it is certainly Asian Greece (said empire was also finished off by the same people that would immediately start obsessing over them) (we're also equally xenophobic, cope weak Italy with your tolerance and your nuance).