Berlin is big beers and the Fernsehturm TV tower. Paris is the Eiffel Tower, croissants, and baguettes. New York is the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, bagels, and pizza.
Perhaps that’s no surprise. Before recent instability, Egypt welcomed 15 million tourists annually to its pyramids (and now it’s campaigning to get those tourists back). About 7 million tourists visit the Eiffel Tower each year. And everybody’s got to eat.
Of course, through another lens, there are also some subtle burns in what you don’t see represented in these drawings. Most notably is in London, which elicits sketches of Big Ben, The London Eye, and even the Queen. But the city has no drawings of food–mirroring global stereotypes about English cuisine. Along the same lines, Venice has neither much food nor architecture in its crowdsourced depictions. Instead, it’s all gondolas. Which is good for the gondola drivers, who earn a surprisingly good living off tourists, while the city is slowly sinking into the water beside them.
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