Guess the nation

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

Try this one.

Those dogs, panting with their tongues, and suffering from a disaster they had brought upon themselves, their thoughts went back to water, hell met them with its evils, and noon conquered them with its fire.

 

[Anarion]

Crusaders at Hattin?

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

Yep.


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...I really should try and hide my obsession with the crusades in cases like this. 

 

[Patchouli Knowledge]

Right.

Seriously? I was saying that as a joke.

 

[Anarion]

Wow. 
I was wondering about that.

Here's a new one:

According to my observation, Northerners are sincere and honest; Southerners are skilled and quick-minded. These are their respective virtues. Yet sincerity and honesty lead to stupidity, whereas skillfulness and quick-mindedness lead to duplicity.

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

New Zealanders?

 

[Anarion]

Not quite. 

 

[Patchouli Knowledge]

Londoners?

 

[JamesThompson]

Japan?

 

[Anarion]

Still not in the right place.

 

[IA]

China?

 

[Anarion]

Give that man a cigar. The quote is attributed to Lu Xun.

 

[IA]

Of all the countries I was trying to think of that would be described as having a dichotomy like that along a north to south divide, (U.S., Egypt, Italy, India, China) it seemed the most likely.

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

Give that man a cigar. The quote is attributed to Lu Xun.

China was actually my firat guess, but it was so far removed from the national stereotype that I assumed it was something else.

 

[Saxon with a Seax]

Ooh here's one about a people that if they ever actually existed they certainly don't now

[quote author=Herodotus]
(They) have the following customs: all ship-wrecked men, and any Greeks whom they capture in their sea-raids, they sacrifice to the Virgin goddess as I will describe: after the first rites of sacrifice, they strike the victim on the head with a club; according to some, they then place the head on a pole and throw the body off the cliff on which their temple stands; others agree as to the head, but say that the body is buried, not thrown off the cliff
[/quote]

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

Amazons? Your preamble kinda gave it away there.

 

[Untitled.]

I was thinking of mountain gnomes.

 

[Saxon with a Seax]

Amazons? Your preamble kinda gave it away there.

No, not quite. Possibly related but not quite

 

[Bluehawk]

The Tauridians and/or Scythians.

 

[Mad Vader]

Hyperboreans?