Google’s autocomplete feature is a handy little tool that predicts what we are about to ask our Google overlords, based on what other (English-speaking) people have asked in the past. We can use this tool to see what people are searching, and more specifically to the following map, stereotypes about people from different countries.
It’s simple. All we do is go to Google and type in “why are [people from country we’re interested in] so” and see what Google’s autocomplete spits out. For example:
Google tells us that Americans are stupid, rude and loud. Quite the ringing endorsement. We then take the most searched term, slap it on the map and move on to the next country. Before long, this is what we come up with:
N/A = no data (probably because no one knows what to call people from Suriname and Guyana)
