# Steven Colbert inspired country nicknames, a list. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 28, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630 "2011-12-28T15:50:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630/21 "2011-12-28T21:22:23Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > Homer Simpson: “Ah, Canada - America’s hat.” He also said: “Canada? Why should we leave America to visit America Junior?” I guess he should be commended though, for actually knowing that Toronto is in Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630/22 "2011-12-28T22:18:41Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Quebec is Canada’s Texas. I thought Alberta was Canada’s Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630/23 "2011-12-28T22:41:35Z")
West Texas is Canada’s Alberta, if they didn’t already have… Alberta. So it’s Alberta Lite. ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630/24 "2011-12-28T23:57:41Z")
> [@I\_Know\_Nothing](#): > > I’ve heard Steven Colbert refer to New Zealand as Diet Australia, and to The Philippines as Water Mexico. > > On The World in Words podcast they referred to Belgium as Yugoslavia without guns. > > What are some other funny or interesting country nicknames. I don’t get The Philippines one. Can someone explain? “Water Mexico?” ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630/25 "2011-12-29T00:05:10Z")
> [@kath94](#): > > I don’t get The Philippines one. Can someone explain? “Water Mexico?” A bunch of islands, peopled by folks of mixed spanish and native ancestry. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630/26 "2011-12-29T00:40:58Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > Would that make Mexico America’s pants? > > Let’s not talk about Florida. The way I heard it is that Mexico is America’s _beard_. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Know\_Nothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f04885/32.png) [@I\_Know\_Nothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Know_Nothing)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630/27 "2011-12-29T08:27:06Z")
In the states Filipinos are often confused with Mexicans(or with anyone of South American Spanish descent to which most Americans refer to as Mexican). Basically brown skinned Catholics many of whom speak Spanish. I waited tables with a Filipino guy in Dallas who was always mistaken as hispanic. The fact that we worked at a Mexican restaurant didn’t help. He once had a table walk out because, when they asked him why he didn’t speak Spanish to his tables, he replied that he wasn’t Spanish. We think the table was pissed off because they thought he was ashamed of his ancestry, not knowing that he’s not Mexican and doesn’t speak Spanish. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630/28 "2011-12-29T09:01:55Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I thought Alberta was Canada’s Texas. Alberta is Canada’s Texas. Giant pickup trucks, a contempt for any government who questions the right of anybody to own a giant pickup truck, and a hatred of any government who makes it difficult for anybody to own a giant pickup truck. Yeah, that’s Alberta. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630/29 "2011-12-29T09:30:35Z")
Shenzhen is the Mississauga of Hong Kong. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630/30 "2011-12-29T09:32:02Z")
America is the world’s idiot brother-in-law. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630/31 "2011-12-29T09:32:24Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > The way I heard it is that Mexico is America’s _beard_. [Indeed!](http://satwcomic.com/denmark-s-gaydar) ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630/32 "2011-12-29T09:47:52Z")
> [@Scissorjack](#): > > America is the world’s idiot brother-in-law. Or brother period? \ ETA: Oh, Did I just date myself horribly? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630/33 "2011-12-29T15:36:59Z")
> [@I\_Know\_Nothing](#): > > In the states Filipinos are often confused with Mexicans(or with anyone of South American Spanish descent to which most Americans refer to as Mexican). Basically brown skinned Catholics many of whom speak Spanish… Actually, it turns out it’s not JUST “convergent evolution”…there really were a lot of real Mexicans who settled in the Philippines, back when the galleons plied the Pacific between Manila and Acapulco, and so some Filipinos have some Mexican ancestry. Okay, as for the OP, I’ll go with… **“Tunisia and Sardinia, Italy’s goalposts”** (Sicily being the soccer ball, of course.) ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630/34 "2011-12-30T01:00:21Z")
Western Australia is Australia’s Texas. Queensland is Australia’s Florida, Alabama and Georgia all rolled into one. In fact it’s pretty much the whole US south-east rolled into one, come to think of it. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630/35 "2011-12-30T01:09:48Z")
> [@I\_Know\_Nothing](#): > > I’ve heard Steven Colbert refer to New Zealand as Diet Australia… > [@voguevixen](#): > > Homer Simpson: “Ah, Canada - America’s hat.” Excellent! I’m glad these two posts happened in the same thread. So I sort of know a gal from NZ, and during bar chat I referred to Canadia, ala Homer J, as “America’s hat.” She responded, “That’s the kind of thing Australians would say about New Zealand.” Ha! > [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Quebec is Canada’s Texas. This made me literally laugh my dick off. Okay, not literally, as that would be impossible on at least two levels, but I cracked the holy shit up at this. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630/36 "2011-12-30T01:17:52Z")
Andorra is Catalonia’s home of Tax Free Shopping. ---
**Author:** ![palacheck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e57/32.png) [@palacheck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palacheck)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630/37 "2011-12-30T11:08:11Z")
> [@Scissorjack](#): > > America is the world’s idiot brother-in-law. America is the guy that’s fucking your sister? He has a yacht too. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630/38 "2011-12-30T11:26:09Z")
Malaysia, the poor man’s Indonesia. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630/39 "2011-12-30T14:53:53Z")
> [@flodnak](#): > > [Indeed!](http://satwcomic.com/denmark-s-gaydar) That’s the exact joke I was going to make. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mr.Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Me)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630/40 "2011-12-30T23:50:31Z")
[This map](http://billstclair.com/blog/images/pt-world-map.png) describes Australia as ‘Arkansas with a beach’. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steven-colbert-inspired-country-nicknames-a-list/607630.md?page=3)