Tag Archives: World

The Peace Dance

This vid has been up since last November, with only 9000 views so far, despite serious viral potential. It’s creators describe the video this way, “This video is essentially just a more Jewish (but less impressive) version of “Where the Hell is Matt.” The point is to highlight the power of media to help decrease …

How Swedes View Americans

My Scandophile family will enjoy this. It’s a comedy sketch from Swedish TV. In it, Swedes are mocking American stereotypes in comic English. The line that haunts me is “How come we’re not home with our mammals watching raceball?” It just seems so deliciously apropo of comic mistranslations in any language. At one point the …