COMENIUS  H.E.R.M.E.S.
How Everybody Remembers Meaningful Enjoyable Sights

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STEREOTYPES - Sweet prejudices and good information.
Results from the initial questionnaire of the project mm
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The survey discovered that the basic facts that students know about the partner-countries in the project are as follows:
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How do people look like?
Spain - dark hair and dark eyes, good dancers, passionate, temperamental
Germany - fair hair and blue eyes, strict, clever, hard-working
Greece - dark hair and dark eyes, friendly
Italy – dark hair and dark eyes, cheerful, passionate, charismatic
Hungary – normal hair and eyes, hospitable, friendly
Turkey - dark complexion, dark hair and dark eyes, hard working,

Food and drinks
 Spain - cold soup, paella,wine, sangria, calamares
Germany - beer, apple cakes, wurst, white bean soup, sausages
Greece - lemon soup, moussaka, ouzo, olives, gyros
Italy – pizza, pasta, spaghetti, lasagne, wine, ice-cream
Hungary - goulash, paprika chicken wine .
Turkey - kebab, köfte, cöp sis
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Famous people
Spain – David Villa, Fernando Torres, Pablo Picasso, M. Sanchez, E. Iglesias,J . Iglesias
Germany - Albert Einstein, Beethoven, Kant, Michael Schumaher, Ramstein,
Greece - Onassis, Elena Paparizou, Anna Vissi, Laskarina Boubolina, Aristotele
Italy - Galileo, Leonardo da Vinci, Fabio Cannavaro, Totti, Eros Ramazzotti, Columbus, Pavarotti, Sofia Loren, Botticelli
Hungary - Ferenc Puskás, Mihály Munkácsy
Turkey – Atatürk
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What the students know about the partner-countries
Final considerations of Anna Ródenas and Estela González from Spain in their "As Spanish people see Turks": "Our conclusion is that the stereotypes are sometimes true, and sometimes false, or exaggerated. When you want to know more about someone, you don’t have to listen to their stereotypes, you have to travel to the country and get to know them!" - Learn more...
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What Eren Tekgöz writes in "How well you know your partner" - Learn more...
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Gergő Czerula and Kitty Dankó from Hungary, in their "Stereotype of people from Turkey", among other things, write: "In conclusion, the national stereotypes tend to have some truth but mixed with some generalizations and  exageration. Generalising about countries and labelling them, thus creating false expectations is not right. Every nation has clichéd stereotypes but everyone needs to check them by meeting those people. - Learn more...
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Final documents of the following students: Nur Ekenel - Learn more... - Enes Yazici - Learn more... A. Erge Aslan - Learn more...