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• Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Respect for Croatia

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  • AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Not really deserved 😂 (For more info see my other comment in this thread.)

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    • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Well, at least they partially changed xenophobia for phobia against the other village… anyway, galic village is just france

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• DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s pretty clear the French are to blame.

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  • Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Désolé

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    • turtlesareneat@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Uh what’s the french word for “antibiotic,” I need to tell a friend

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It sure seems like everyone blames either the French, or someone who got it from the French…

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• Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Spider-Man pointing meme

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  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Fifth Spidey popping up in the middle: “Bonjour!”

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Croatia in a chair in the corner.

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• pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Scotland was just like “it’s everyone else’s fault.”

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• troglodyte_mignon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Fun fact : in Strasbourg, there’s a (very pretty) district called Petite France (“Little France”). Its name comes from a former hospital that treated syphilis at a time when Strasbourg was a part of Germany.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The koala that was patient zero:

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  • RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That must have been one sexy koala, though, to be fucked by all those french, spaniards, italians, germans, poles, and turks.

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    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      We don’t know what the origin of syphilis is.

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• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The Italians were right to blame the French though. They brought it to Italy from the Americas during a military campaign in Naples

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  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    So we’re also right to blame the Italians, if they weren’t so sexy and promiscuous the disease would have stayed in France ! (/s)

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• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  A lot of countries hate the French, but us the Dutch hate the Spanish more. That’s what you get for invading us with an 80 year long war. We name an illness after you.

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  • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s fair, that stupid war was such a waste of resources. Castille could have started the industrial revolution hadn’t they wasted their wealth on a multigenerational war

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• ClownStatue@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Says a lot about the general consensus about a country that none of your neighboring countries think you could be the source of their rise in an STD. Some countries fuck. Some don’t.

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• meduz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I suggest more primary source research should be done about this claim before drawing such maps. Speaking for Polish, I was not able to find any primary or even reliable secondary sources that claim anything about it being “turkish disease” (choroba turecka). I’ve also been unable to find anything about it being a german disease outside of modern or foreign sources which don’t quote where they got that term from.

  Now… For the french one, and what I primarily suspect to be the most solid argument here is the fact that in most of Europe this started in Greek as “sys - philos”, so literally “swine loving”, which in 1530 was subtitled as “morbus gallicus” (french disease). Is that because they hated the French, or perhaps because the french were calling it Neapolitan disease because they had an outbreak of the disease in Naples in 1495…

  I cannot speak for claims in other languages, but I encourage you, if you speak a language, to do some digging to validate these claims. It’s interesting how English-speaking sources are claiming something and there’s no sources on it. Other than the french argument, how many of those can be validated?

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  • AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I can confirm that for Croatia it’s accurate to a point. At the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century two separate towns had an outbreak of syphilis, and therefore the disease was named after these two places locally. From my understanding, in both cases the disease was mostly transmitted due to poor hygiene, and not much through sexual contact. In the second town, aside from the aforementioned, a bunch of kids and their families were infected because the local doctor vaccinated the kids against pox using materials from an infected child, unintentionally.

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Croatia is just out there accepting blame nobody else is giving them

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• Infamousblt@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Finally a different map

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• pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Seems to me it all came from France

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• muhyb@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Ottoman one should be “French disease” as well though. While Frank was used as European as in general, it comes from French.

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  • Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It was a helluva night.

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  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    “It was the ancient France, specifically!”

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• Frostbeard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Norway is left out because we call it syphilis.

  But from now on I will start referring to it as “Damage leaden” (Danish plague)

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• DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Scotland and Poland seem awfully judgy.

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• Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Did pland blame germans and turks at the same time?

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