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I love 's Scandinavia and the World and I hope my making this fan comic is ok. All the characters belong to her, except India and Native America are my concepts.

I got the idea for this after a conversation with a coworker at lunch. He was expressing his love for Roma tomatoes and mentioning how they were Italian. I said, full of sarcasm, "yeah, I picked up on that, being called 'Roma' tomatoes after all". He looked at me blankly... "'Roma'... it's Italian for 'Rome'." Yeah, sometimes I forget that my in interest in geography is more than the average American. He's not stupid or anything but I guess most Americans don't keep in mind random bits of info like what the capital of Italy is called in Italian...

So... I had this idea, and started researching it, apparently, there's a term for this: Exonym . All my research for the names also came from wikipedia, haha! I knew Spain, Germany and Japan's names before. I know there are WAY more countries I could have included but wanted to stick with ones that stick out in American minds more (Spanish and German are commonly learned languages here...) and I wasn't about to invent a new satw character for a country I didn't know anything about. I actually know something about India where I don't know much about most South American and African countries. (and I am aware that some of these countries have more than one name, especially ones with many dialects like China and India. Also decided to stick with only Roman characters.)

I specifically wanted to do countries that would have such cute reactions... that's what I love about the comics, the characters are so cute and expressive and reactive.

There are several other cute concepts people have done for India:
[link] [link] [link] [link] [link]
but since *humon hasn't done an India yet, nothing's canon. I thought a Sari would look super cute. But a boy in a Dhoti would have also been super cute. I do think I overcomplicated the outfit. The little device is supposed to be her prop (like Norway's fish... he's so cute!!) a precise measuring instrument to show she's either a scientist of an engineer, because all the Indian chicks I ever met were. I do like the !FlamingFoxDragon 's idea of India being tech support! of course, why didn't I think of that?? Stereotype to the T! India would be another child of England, wouldn't she?

So... I did the most research for Native America. My original concept had Brother Native America but I decided I wanted Native America to be America's Mom (with England as his dad). I eventually went with Algonquin for the word for "homeland" going with the idea that the Algonquins were the tribe with the most early contact with England, specifically the Virginian Algonquins. For her flag... I could not find a flag that represented ALL of the Native American nations, there are so many peoples I couldn't pick just one... the only flag they have in common is... well... the American flag. I had another idea where her top was an American flag, not just her bead-collar. Yup... that's where my thinking came from, so please don't be hatin'.

Scandinavia and the World belongs to

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update: Changed China and Greece's names per suggestions.

Description
I love 's Scandinavia and the World and I hope my making this fan comic is ok. All the characters belong to her, except India and Native America are my concepts.

I got the idea for this after a conversation with a coworker at lunch. He was expressing his love for Roma tomatoes and mentioning how they were Italian. I said, full of sarcasm, "yeah, I picked up on that, being called 'Roma' tomatoes after all". He looked at me blankly... "'Roma'... it's Italian for 'Rome'." Yeah, sometimes I forget that my in interest in geography is more than the average American. He's not stupid or anything but I guess most Americans don't keep in mind random bits of info like what the capital of Italy is called in Italian...

So... I had this idea, and started researching it, apparently, there's a term for this: Exonym . All my research for the names also came from wikipedia, haha! I knew Spain, Germany and Japan's names before. I know there are WAY more countries I could have included but wanted to stick with ones that stick out in American minds more (Spanish and German are commonly learned languages here...) and I wasn't about to invent a new satw character for a country I didn't know anything about. I actually know something about India where I don't know much about most South American and African countries. (and I am aware that some of these countries have more than one name, especially ones with many dialects like China and India. Also decided to stick with only Roman characters.)

I specifically wanted to do countries that would have such cute reactions... that's what I love about the comics, the characters are so cute and expressive and reactive.

There are several other cute concepts people have done for India:
[link] [link] [link] [link] [link]
but since *humon hasn't done an India yet, nothing's canon. I thought a Sari would look super cute. But a boy in a Dhoti would have also been super cute. I do think I overcomplicated the outfit. The little device is supposed to be her prop (like Norway's fish... he's so cute!!) a precise measuring instrument to show she's either a scientist of an engineer, because all the Indian chicks I ever met were. I do like the !FlamingFoxDragon 's idea of India being tech support! of course, why didn't I think of that?? Stereotype to the T! India would be another child of England, wouldn't she?

So... I did the most research for Native America. My original concept had Brother Native America but I decided I wanted Native America to be America's Mom (with England as his dad). I eventually went with Algonquin for the word for "homeland" going with the idea that the Algonquins were the tribe with the most early contact with England, specifically the Virginian Algonquins. For her flag... I could not find a flag that represented ALL of the Native American nations, there are so many peoples I couldn't pick just one... the only flag they have in common is... well... the American flag. I had another idea where her top was an American flag, not just her bead-collar. Yup... that's where my thinking came from, so please don't be hatin'.

Scandinavia and the World belongs to

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update: Changed China and Greece's names per suggestions.