Whiskey-swilling, rugby-mad rascals: How the world sees us

IT would be easy to take offence at being described as a nation of whiskey-swilling, rugby-mad rascals.

Yet that fiddly-aye stereotype is the very persona ascribed to us in a newly completed set of irreverent maps which compares how various nations see each other.

“Rascal” is assigned to us by the British, “whiskey” by Germany and “pub” by the Bulgarians.