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The Meanwhile meme is an accurate way of describing a certain country, culture, or lifestyle using a simple picture. Much like any other meme, you need to be easily amused, and not easily offended in order to enjoy it.

Origin: Sometime in February 2010, a flipped image of a Holden Commodore (a very common Australian-made sedan) with the caption “Meanwhile in Australia” appeared on 4chan via /b/ board for the first time. An allusion to the age-old joke that everything in Australia is “upside down” (due to its southern hemisphere location), the image quickly became a favorite re-blog material on image board sites, blog networks and aggregate services.

Since then, multiple variations with countries or locations and their stereotypes have been posted.

 

 

1. Meanwhile in Finland

 

2. Meanwhile in China

 

3. Meanwhile in Rio

 

4. Meanwhile in Italy

 

5. Meanwhile in Detroit

 

6. Meanwhile in Romania

 

7. Meanwhile at Disney

 

8. Meanwhile in Iraq

 

9. Meanwhile in India

 

10. Meanwhile in Colombia

 

11. Meanwhile in Alaska

 

12. Meanwhile in Serbia

 

13. Meanwhile in Russia

 

14. Meanwhile in Germany

 

15. Meanwhile in Japan

 

16. Meanwhile in Australia

 

17. Meanwhile on Google+

 

Source: http://www.oddee.com

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