#another big category of nps are cartoon personifications
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national personifications are funny as a concept
like you have a polity, with a bunch of people in it, and you try to sum them up in an individual humanoid entity
and you see, they're depicted either as purely perfect or as a set of national stereotypes
obviously the first characterization is implausible and boring as fuck, but the thing with the second characterization is that groups cant be monolithic, and stereotypes of the same group can and often are contradictory, which would reasonably suggest that a personification of them would be similarly inconsistent and paradoxical
i think more personifications should be bizarre and messy and deranged actually
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