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American stereotypes, Crystal ball view of Europe 2022, Europe 2022 map, Europe in 2022, european stereotypes, Geopolitics, Imaginative maps of Europe, Yanko Tsvetkov
Whilst all the politicians across the world are sitting on their hands, unwilling to second guess Sunday’s crucial election in Greece, it is good to see there are some who are willing to stick their heads above water and tell us how they see it all pan out.
Regular readers will know my love of and delight in the cartographic gems that come from Yanko Tsvetkov and here above is another beauty. “A crystal ball view of Europe in 2022”.
It’s the wordless humour, with Turkey ten years on still left out as the beggar at the door, and those sly little comments that get me. England as a “passive aggressive kingdom” indeed.
Copyright David Macadam 2012
Great stuff! I couldn’t remember whether you’d featured one of the artist’s maps of the USA in the past – had seen it somewhere. Anyway, if not there’s one at
http://www.changinggears.info/tag/yanko-tsvetkov/
He’s considerably better informed about the USA than many of its inhabitants!
PS – I’m still fighting with WordPress to get my name changed to Twilight from Learning Curve OTE blog), but it tells me that the name is already taken (probably by me DUH!) -now I’m annie999 for now instead.
Yes indeed! I did two previous posts on Yanko here :- http://theoligarchkings.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/more-stereotype-maps-of-america-and-europe/
and also at
http://theoligarchkings.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/american-stereotypes-of-europe-put-on-a-map/
so I hope there would be something there you dont yet know!
Thanks for the links – all good’n's!
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