‘Czechs are hillbillies who specialize in the making of sunflower oil’/ ‘Cesi jsou vesnicani, kteri vyrabeji hlavne slunecnicovy olej’

Remember my post called Ode to Czechs? Well, enough of us bragging, here is the other side of the coin (and you are not going to like this side). According to a recent poll made by the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Czech image in other countries is not good. The participating foreigners see Czechs as rednecks who make sunflower oil and tower clock. Zdenka Kuchynova from Radio Praha further explains: “We are not a nation abounding with prodigy hockey players and gorgeous girls, we are a primitive country inhabited by vulgar and overworked hillbillies. We are cheap laborers and excel in the  production of sunflower oil and tower clock..oh, and we tend to get melancholic.”

Which foreign country gave us the best ratings? The results show that the further the participating country is located from the Czech Republic, the better the ratings since they don’t know that much about us. Sometimes the results of those far away countries are said to be less negative or even positive.

Who gave birth to the incorrect idea that our country specializes in sunflower oil? Miroslav Knepr is one of the scientists who compiled the resulting data and he has his own theory behind these rumors: “When we look at the former (or even sometimes current) ads about the Czech Republic, most of them have beautiful images of endless sunflower and/or beet fields. When the outside world keeps seeing these images over and over then people start to connect the dots so to speak.”

How the heck did we get accredited with the clock-making business? Again, because every travel booklet on the Czech Republic has this image of a cute little baroque church and that is how the outside world translated it.

The most known Czechs abroad are:

• Karel Gott
• Ivana Trumpova
• Eva Herzigova
• filmovy Pan Tau
• porn-star Dolly Buster

(PS: Did not know that Dolly Buster is Czech!)

The Czechs are also known by the former exporting goods such as the Bohemian Crystal and – of course – beer.

The British know us (and like us) thanks to cheap beer and – sadly – cheap girls.

How can we change this distorted image of the Czech Republic? According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs it is imperative to  alert  our foreign neighbors about the inventions we have made such as the miraculous contact lenses or the atomic dome in Hiroshima which was the only building that survived the atomic bombings in 1945 and was built by a Czech engineer.

The change can come  perhaps through this blog as well 🙂

CZ: Nebude se vam to libit, ale podle nedavneho pruzkumu ministerstva zahranici image Ceska v zahranici neni dobra. I kdyz my si myslime, ze jsme tim nejlepsim narodem na svete,Cesi jsou podle cizincu prosti vesnicane, kteri vyrabeji hlavne olej (HA-HA!). Zdenka Kuchynova z Radia Prahy dale vysvetluje: ‘Nejsme narod skvelych hokejistu a krasnych divek, nybrz civilizaci neprilis zasazena zeme obyvana razovitymi a udrenymi vesnicany. Jsme levna pracovni sila a to hlavni, na co se zmuzeme, je vyroba slunecnicoveho oleje a veznich hodin a mame sklon k melancholii.’

Ktery narod nas hodnotil nejlepe? Cim dale je ta zeme dal od Cech, tim jsou pry nazory jejich obyvatel  nepresnejsi; ale zase jsou pry mene negativni, nekdy i pozitivni.

Jak vznikl dojem, ze vyrabime hodne slunecnicoveho oleje? Miloslav Knepr je jeden z vedcu, ktery zpracovaval data tohoto pruzkumu a ma o tom svou vlastni teorii: “Kdyz se podivame jak vypadali (a stale jeste nekdy vypadaji) reklamni materialy o Ceske republice, tak je to dano tim, ze se treba pouzivaji krasne obrazky, ale v rade knih vydite repkove a slunecnicove lany; a kdyz to nekdo vidi ve treti brozure za sebou, tak si rekne, to urcite neni jen tak, to ma nejaky vyznam.”

A jak vznikl dojem, ze vyrabime vezni hodiny?? “Protoze v kazde brozure jsou veze ceskych baroknich kostelnku a takhle si to prelozili.”, dodava pan Knepr.

Nejznamejsi Cesi v zahranici jsou:

• Karel Gott
• Ivana Trumpova
• Eva Herzigova
• filmovy Pan Tau
• pornoherecka Dolly Buster

Jinak nas znaji pres byvale vyvozni zbozi – sklo a pivo.

Pro Brity je v Cechach levne nejenom pivo ale take divky.

Jak by se tento mlhavy a nepresny obraz Cech mohl zmenit? Podle ministerstva zahranici je treba ukazat vynalezy, ve kterych jsme ve svete vynikli, jako jsou treba kontaktni cocky nebo atomovy dom v Hirosime, ktery jako jediny prezil jaderny vybuch a jeho projektantem byl Cech.

Czechmate Diary s timto bremenem snad take trosku vypomuze.

http://www.radio.cz/cz/rubrika/udalosti/cizinci-vidi-cechy-jako-venkovany-vyrabejici-hlavne-olej