Most countries have
their equivalent of the Englishman, Irishman, Scotsman joke and I know that in
Europe, it’s usually the Belgians who serve as the butt of them. Bulgaria is
different. They tell jokes involving an American, a German and a Bulgarian -
and it’s the Bulgarian who features as the punchline as a kind of Bai Ganyo
figure. Bai Ganyo is probably the country’s most famous literary character and
is often used as a reference for how Bulgarians imagine they’re perceived by
the rest of the world: poor, uneducated, opportunistic, egotistical, and
completely out of step with everywhere else.
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