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Man on Left: Hi guys can you guess where I’m from, just by my look or the face?
Woman with Beret: Yeah French; obviously it’s French.”
Third Woman: Yeah you can hear.
Man on Left: That’s why I try to not speaking since the beginning.
Third Woman: I mean there are the looks there.
Man on Left: How? How? Which part because like sometimes people say that I look like an American — no offense to Americans. I like American people . . . Why I’m looking French?
Third Woman: I don’t know; maybe it’s the mustache. Might be that, yeah.

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Woman with Beret: Where do you guys think I’m from?
Third Woman: Middle European?
Woman with Beret: Okay.
Third Woman: Am I getting close?
Woman with Beret: I don’t know. You me; I don’t know. So my looks tell you I’m middle European?
Third Woman: Yeah.
Man on Left: I would say American.
Woman with Beret: Okay, all right. Why is that?
Man on Left: Your accent.
Woman with Beret: My accent. Okay, all right.

Black Haired Fourth Woman: I guess American.

Woman with Beret: Okay. All right. Cool. We shall see.

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Third Woman with Short Hair: Where do you think I’m from?
Man on Left: Germany.
Third Woman with Short Hair: Mmmm.
Woman on Right: I would say somewhere in Scandinavia.
Participant: Yeah, I think so too.
Woman with Beret: I was thinking Netherlands maybe.
Fourth Woman with Black Hair: I guess Poland; I don’t know.
Man on Left: I think has Sweden maybe.

Third Woman with Short Hair: I mean it makes sense because I look really Nordic.
Man on Left: That area Netherlands, Germany, like that.
Red Haired Woman: I was impressed that they guess some Nordic countries; I was like oh really?

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Middle Woman with Black Hair: Where do you think I’m from?
Participant: Easter European?
Woman on Right: I get the feeling, Italy?
Man on Left: I would say something like Croatia, or something like this. Croatia. Croatia or Bulgaria, I think the East.

Woman on the Right: Yeah oh I think she’s from Italy; Italy I think: she has the dark features.
Man on Left: She don’t have the accent of an Italian.
Third Woman with Short Hair: Accent can be a bit tricky.
Man on the Right: Accents can be a bit tricky.

Third Woman with Short Hair: For you, you’re, yours is quite strong.

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Woman in the Middle: So what do you think, where I’m from?

Third Woman with Short Hair: I’m going to say something stupid, but you look French to me. French yeah.
Woman in the Middle: Well I hear that a lot.
Third Woman with Short Hair: But yeah, but anyway still middle European.

Woman on the Right: Are you a natural ginger?
Woman in the Middle: Ah no.
Man on the Right: I would go like, Italy Greece. Italy better I think. Greece I think it face structure and stuff it’s getting a bit like a . . .
Woman with Beret: I would say maybe . . . Switzerland. I don’t know cuz it has everything in there like France, and like Italy.
Third Woman with Short Hair: It’s a mix, a melting pot. So maybe Switzerland.

Woman with Red Hair: To me, you look like you could speak Spanish — I don’t know why, but you look like Spanish, right. So . . . I’m like could be maybe . . .
Man on Right: If you had a strong accent while speaking English, I would say like oh maybe you’re like from Colombia or from Venezuela or something like that.

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Red Hair Woman: So based on my looks can you guess where I’m from? Germany Participant 1: Germany.
Participant 2: England. Maybe yeah probably, maybe, I’m not sure.

Woman on the Right: I would say Canada; she can be too yeah. She looks kind of Canadian I don’t know why.
Woman in the middle: Similar to her maybe, really light skin, so maybe Norway Sweden Finland maybe I don’t know. maybe I don’t know the paleness.
Man on Right: Maybe Norway. Maybe yeah.

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Man on Right: my name is Alfonso, and based on my looks like where do you think I’m from?

Third Woman with Short Hair: Spain, Portugal, Europe.
Man on Right: Okay, good.
Man on Left: I think you’re definitely Spanish because of your name; yeah, yeah yeah; the name.

Man on Right: It’s not really Spanish name.
Third Woman with Short Hair: But strong eyebrows I say Italian, but still southern Europe.
Man on Right: Okay, yeah that’s that’s fair.

Man on Left: I want to try something spicy, like Mexico or Chile something like this.

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Woman on the Right: Guess where I’m from.

Woman in the Middle: I would say the Balkan countries like, I don’t know Kosovo maybe. Kosovo, you have something.

Man on Right: Now I’m 100% you’re French, like three words sound French. Also your your face, yeah it’s just . . . 100%. 100% very French 100%.

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Man on the Left: The biggest symbol of my country was supposed to be destroyed.
Third Woman with Short Hair: It was supposed to be torn down cuz it was just for the Expo.
Man on the Left: Maybe . . . maybe not.

Woman with Beret: We have the breast — the breast . . . Okay we have we have the best bread in the world.
Participant: Germany.

Man on the Right: I’m lost.
Woman with Beret: You know where I’m from?
Man on Left: Norway?
Woman in the Middle: Does Norway have the best bread in the world? I mean in Europe, everyone has bread. Europe in general has good bread.
Man on Right: We all think we have the best bread in the world.
Woman with Beret: I guess it’s going to be a fight about that yes.
Man on the Right: In Europe it’s always the same.

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Third Woman with Short Hair: Okay so most of the territory of my country is Forest like 60 or 70%.
Woman with Red Hair: Sweden 100%.
Man on the Right: Oh, cuz we were the Netherlands but Netherlands.
Woman on Right Side: I don’t think.
Third Woman with Short Hair: I have another fact: it’s one of the countries that has the most number of models per capita.
Woman on Right Side: Then it’s probably Sweden.
Man on Right: Norse. How tall are you?
Third Woman with Short Hair: A 170 centimeters.
Man on Right: Well you’re in the tall side, so yes.
Third Woman with Short Hair: I’m considered short.
Man on the Right Side: Oh, then you’re from Sweden.

Third Woman with Short Hair: I mean, it makes sense cuz I look really Nordic.

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Woman with Black Hair: The most popular food in our country is borscht and holumbsi.
Man on the Right Side: Russia.
Woman with Black Hair: Maybe.
Woman with Beret: I still go with Ukraine.
Third Woman with Short Hair: I would go with Ukraine too yeah.

Woman in the Middle: We have the best chocolate.
Woman on the Right Side: Switzerland.
Red Haired Woman: Belgium.
Woman with Beret: I say Switzerland.
Woman with Short Hair: Yeah Switzerland; Switzerland is always like the picture.
Man on the Right Side: Are you good making watches?
Red Haired Woman: Do you shape your chocolate in triangle shapes?

Red Haired Woman: Well, I’m also going to say that my country has the best chocolate in the world.
Woman with Short Hair: Is it your perspective?
Woman in the Middle: It’s Belgium, I mean.

Man on the Right Side: Okay this one won’t be 100% easy: our economy is based in tourism, most of it.

Woman with Short Hair: I mean most of south Europe are like that, Greece and Spain.
Man on the Right Side: It’s not obvious.
Woman with Beret: Italy has a lot of tourism, but do you mean like for Malta because Malta has lot of Tourism.
Man on the Left Side: No because you also have a lot of people who are going to Malta to avoid taxes — that’s what I know. Don’t ask me how I know that a fact.

It could be Italy also, because I know some place in Italy like some city in Italy don’t earn money except tourism — for example Venice — they only earn money from tourism.

Woman with Beret: You’re from Vatican, yeah.
Man on the Right: Right, that’s a country.
Woman with Beret: Yeah, it’s very small but it’s mainly tourism.
Woman with Short Hair: He’s one of the 20 inhabitants.
Man on the Right: Yeah, I keep the door open.

Woman on the Right Side: So my country speaks multiple languages.

Woman with Short Hair: Switzerland. How many?

Woman on the Right Side: That’s a secret.

Man on the Left Side: I think you could be Ukrainian or something like this because you could speak Russian, the local language, and also some English of course, so . . . .
Woman with Short Hair: But like if you think about like what countries are famous for, Switzerland is like well know for having like a lot of languages.
Red Haired Woman: So does Belgium: they speak Dutch and France — French

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For the Man on the Left

Woman on the Right: I mean France.
Woman with Short Hair: Do we have to guess? Look at his features.

Man on the Left: Of course I’m from France.
Man on the Right: Everyone’s surprised.

Wow!!!

Woman with Beret

Man on the Right: Germany. Germany not Netherlands, cuz . . .
Woman with Short Hair: Either Germany or a German speaking country.

Woman with Beret: I am from Germany.
Yeh!!!!

Woman with the Short Hair</b?

Woman with the Short Hair: Okay, so any guess for me?
Man on the Right: Sweden, Finland.
Woman on the Right: Estonia.
Woman with Beret: I go with Lithuania.
Woman with Black Hair: For me it’s Poland I don’t know I guess.

Woman with Short Hair: You probably won’t know — it’s Latvia.
Woman with Beret: I said Baltic!
Woman with Short Hair: Yeah yeah you were the only one that got closer. And you were like Estonia.

Woman with Black Hair

Man on the Right: We have no clue.
Woman with Red Hair: I would go with Ukraine.
Man on the Right: I would go with Russia.
Woman with Red Hair: More people think so.
Woman with Black Hair: So yeah, I’m from Ukraine.

Woman in the Middle

Woman in the Middle: Okay yeah can you guess where I’m from?

Everybody: Switzerland, Switzerland, Switzerland.
Man on the Right: Do you wear a watch?

Woman in the Middle: Switzerland is correct; and also actually Turkey because I am from Switzerland — but originally my family is Turkish. So you guys were kind of both correct y. . . but I’m here as Swiss.

Woman with Red Hair

Woman in the Middle: Now Belgium.
Woman with Short Hair:
Man on the Right: Latvia.
Woman in the Middle: When I said we have the best chocolate, you were offended, so Belgium.
Woman on the Right: Denmark
Man on the Right: Finland . . . Norway. Norway, Norway last one, last one.

Woman with Red Hair: I’m from Sweden. I heard someone say Sweden. The chocolate, Marabou choklad — it’s the best.

Man on Left: But no one knows.
Woman with Red Hair: Should I count my chocolates>

Man on the Right

Man on the Right: Okay.

Woman in the Middle: I’m still for Italy because, I don’t know Italy.

Everyone: Spain, Spain, Spain, Spain.

Man on the Right: And what if I tell you that I’m from Spain.

Woman with Red Hair: Surprise.

Man on the Right: Yes, but where in Spain?
Man on the Left: Chile.

Man on the Right: Okay, Chile is in Spain

Woman on the Right

Woman on the Right: Can you guess where I’m from?
Man on the Right: Belllllllgium. French. If I see you in the street I would say you’re French . . . but . . .
Woman on the Right: We already have a French.
Man on the Right: We already have a French, but I think if if I see like someone that she’s Spanish, I could tell 100%.

Woman in the Middle: I still thing like you said like Croatia or like Kosovo; your face structure is around there, the Balkan, you know.

Man on the Right: For me you’re like a character out of a French movie; a love romance movie. Yeah 100%.

Woman on the Right: That’s a really nice compliment!
Woman with the Beret: Is that a confession?
Man on the Right: That she’s French, yes.

Woman on the Right: So I’m from Belgium.
Woman with Red Hair: Oh, I guess that before!
Man on the Left: Which part?
Woman on the Right: The Dutch part.

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Spanish Man: Yeah it was complicated; it showed that I think in my case that I need to learn a bit more about like accents and stuff cuz Europe is quite big.

Latvian Woman: We felt too ignorant.
German Woman: But the thing with accent is also like it depends on where you live.

Spanish Man: Yeah, but we tend to also know, looks, accent and stuff like that. Also when you’re speaking a foreign language, you normally have that point when you think, ‘Okay you’re from here,’ right.

Latvian Woman: We’re all European, right? Each part of Europe has those specific features that can give away your origins. Maybe you didn’t live there but you have like some family from there.

Spanish Man: Facial structure.

German Woman: But you guys didn’t guess that I’m half Albanian.

Ukrainian Woman: Today we tries to guess our nationality.
Swiss Woman: Please like and subscribe and see you soon.

Bye bye bye.

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Questions

 

Wales, Scotland. In the video, people were discussing political and economic matters. True or false?

Belgium, The Netherlands. Did they guess what nationality the others were based on their way they spoke (in the beginning)?

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. People thought the first man and first woman on the right were from Georgia. Is this right or wrong?

Iceland, Faeroe Islands. Does the woman with short hair look Portuguese?

Azores, Madeira, Canary. Did the others guess the woman with black hair was from Ireland?

Balearic Islands, Majorca, Ibiza. “The biggest symbol of my country was supposed to be destroyed.” What might the man on the left be referring to?

Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily. The main staple of Europe are root vegetables, such as turnips, beets, radishes, parsnips, rutabaga. Is this right or wrong?

Cyprus, Crete, Rhodes. What clue did the woman in the middle give as to where she is from (Switzerland)?

Montenegro, Macedonia. Did the man on the right say his country has the best food in Europe?
 
 
 
Moldova, Romania. Which participants’ nationalities were easy to figure out? Which participants’ nationalities were tricky?

Norway, Sweden, Denmark. If you were on this program, what can you say about your country?

Austria, Hungary. I can a) always, b) usually, c) often, d) sometimes e) seldom, rarely f) never tell what nationality a stranger is; or does it depend?

Czechia, Slovakia. Do foreigners (or people in you own country) always know where you are from, or do they make mistakes? Have you been mistaken for another nationality?

Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia. What might happen in the future?