England: Mum, the blitz, Richmond Park, Fawlty Towers, Twickenham...
Ireland:
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England: Mum, the blitz, Richmond Park, Fawlty Towers, Twickenham...
Ireland:
Ireland: Maria Doyle Kennedy, awesome butter, rain rain oh my god rain, James Nesbitt, the Cranberries, Jacksepticeye
Brazil
Ireland: Joyce, Yeats, whiskey, Guinness, Thin Lizzy, St Patrick's blue.
E: Brazil: Villa-Lobos, football, the Amazon.
Czech republic:
Czech republic: One half, give-or-take (as some politicians might say) of Tzechoslavakia; Frau Gormley (I won't look up her last name spelling this time) - one of my NHS German teachers was from Austria; Vienna; Schönberg; Schubert; Johann Strauss'; sausage
India:
India: Gandhi, Salman Rushdie, Mona Amon, Curry, A passage to India (film), Sari, Nile, Indian dances, Sarong, social tabus, sacred animals
Italy:
Italy: Rome, the Renaissance, Raphael, ravioli, risotto, Ratzinger, Rossini, Romeo & Juliet
Poland:
Poland: Kieslovsky films, Lech Walesa,Danzig, The drummer (film).
Russia:
Russia: Catherine the Great, Potemkin, Fabergé eggs, Kremlin, Siberia, Yakusk, Irkusk, Tunguska & Chelyabinsk meteors, caviar, Urals, Lake Baikal, Moscow, space exploration, Uri Gagarin, Laika, Soyuz, Sputnik, Lunik
South Korea:
South Korea: K-pop, K-film, K-food, K-anything.
Canada:
Canada:Margareth Atwood, Feminine Literature, Michael Ondaatje, multiculturalism, American, British and French influence, a young country still in quest of her identity, adoption of refugees,Toronto, Otawa, Quebec, quebecois, Clopin.
Chile:
Chile: wine (my standard pick with meat is a Cabernet Sauvignon from there), Pinochet, Neruda, Mistral
Portugal:
I guess we had Portugal already but ok: Porto, Porto wine, Florbela Espanca, Tejo, Eça de Queirós, Camilo Castelo Branco, Lisboa, olives.
Spain:
There are only so many countries, and 45 pages of this topic.
Spain: Velázquez, Goya, Almodovar, the Spanish Inquisition, the Armada, amazing midfield football
Lithuania:
That's not a thing.Quote:
Lithuania
Lithuania:EU member,fights for independence from the old Soviet Union, fast growing economy and high human development,Geographic Centre of Europe (Vilnius), Dalia Grybauskaitė,Basketball.
Ukraine: