ELEPHANT TREATISE

A group of people meet at the National Geographic Society in London and decide that, for the next meeting, everybody has to present a treatise on the elephant. They all return the following year and present their volumes.

The German has a 700-page dissertation: Beschreibung des mnnlichen Elephantes in Ost-Afrika. 1. Teil (description of the male elephant of East Africa, Part I).
The Englishman has a small, sober, black leather-bound book entitled Elephants I have shot.
The American has an 8-page booklet in colour, How to make bigger and better elephants,
while the Frenchman has a small tastefully presented book on L'amour des lphants (The love life of elephants).
The Pole presents a book called The elephant and its relation to the Polish Problem,
while the Swede has a greyish book called Elefanter och hur man titulerar dem (Elephants and how to address them).
The Dane presents a book of recipes: Elefant p 100 mder (100 ways to cook an elephant),
while the Norwegian has a book entitled Norge og vi nordmnd (Norway and we Norwegians).

Taken Dec 3, 2009 from http://culturalmoments.blogspot.com/2007/12/european-stereotypes.html