Clearing up misconceptions about your country!

[Lullabye]

This can be serious, setting straight economic and political misconceptions(please make sure to provide sources and etc...i dont want to be deceived), or simply dispelling rumors and harmless stories that annoy you.
I'll start

Canada:
1)Our official sport is Lacrosse, not Hockey (No, it doesn't make sense to me either.)
2)We're not nice, we're simply subtle.
3)Yes we use the words "by'e"(as in, "he's a good b'ye"{boy}, "giver"(as in, "giver all you got", or simply "giver") and a whole lot of ther irish sounding things.
4)We have an army(and it includes more than one person). we jut dont know how to use it and as such are reduced to handing out snacks during war time(read: peacekeeping).
and finally:WE DO NOT LIVE IN IGLOOS!.....well, most of us anyway.

so any misconceptions you want to clear up? Do French people really give their children wine? Do Italians really eat pasta with every meal? Is Barack Obama a communist?(second thought, there's a thread for that already)

note: i bring this up only because we had a bunch of exchange students come to my school, and wow did we surprise them. Been thinking about how the world sees Canada all day.

 

[LiftYourSkinnyFists]

British people have good teeth! Free NHS covers it

 

[Datalord]

America is pretty much everything the world says about us, we kick ass first, ask questions later, and don't respect you or your dog.

We're also fat, immature, and most of us are stupid

 

[Arkhangelsk]

Sweden: We're not all blonde and blue eyed and eat meatballs all the time. And we don't have those ugly accents or bad speaking you hear on TV. Most of us are good at English, and we don't have that exaggerated accent.

 

[Datalord]

British people have good teeth! Free NHS covers it

What about british food? is it really that bad?

 

[Romblen]

Mine is more of a rant of my state.
Wyoming(part of United States)
1. No, we don't ride horses everywhere. We use cars.
2. Yes, we have electricity.
3. Yes, we have internet.
4. No, we're not part of Texas.
5. No, we do not act like the people in the old western movies.

 

[Datalord]

Mine is more of a rant of my state.
Wyoming(part of United States)
1. No, we don't ride horses everywhere. We use cars.
2. Yes, we have electricity.
3. Yes, we have internet.
4. No, we're not part of Texas.
5. No, we do not act like the people in the old western movies.

GO MIDWEST, i feel your pain, fellow resident of the heartland of the USA, noone thinks south dakota has anything either.

 

[shannon.archer]

Australia
- We don't ride Kangaroos.
- We don't all speak like Hugh Jackman from "Australia".
- We all say mate.
- We aren't being invaded by Asians <_<

 

[Amnestic]

British people have good teeth! Free NHS covers it

What about british food? is it really that bad?

We invented the Roast Dinner.

What do you think?

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Norway doesn't

1. Have polar bears in the streets.
2. Have shitloads of medieval things everywhere.

 

[Actual]

Canada:
1)Our official sport is Lacrosse, not Hockey (No, it doesn't make sense to me either.)

What is an official sport? Do we need one!?

The British don't go all Hugh Grant (embarrassed) when you mention sex.
The British NHS doesn't allow us to murder our grandparents, unfortunately.

Oh and:

Australia
- We all say mate.

This is also said very commonly in England, I'm fed up of yanks thinking I'm Aussie! Though I do think it sounds slightly better in the Oz accent.

 

[TheZapper]

British people have good teeth! Free NHS covers it

What about british food? is it really that bad?

Its not terrible, but it is very dull for the most part. We prefer to eat the foods of other cultures more than our own.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Sweden: We're not all blonde and blue eyed and eat meatballs all the time. And we don't have those ugly accents or bad speaking you hear on TV. Most of us are good at English, and we don't have that exaggerated accent.

uuuh... Most people in Sweden speaking English have horrible accents. I can pick out a Swedish guy talking English easy. Mostly it's the former generation that speaks bad, but it's still a big demographic. Americans and other just can't mimic our accents.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Norway doesn't

1. Have polar bears in the streets.
2. Have shitloads of medieval things everywhere.

Well are you stupid? I mean, that's all the information Sweden has on you. That you are stupid.

 

[RanD00M]

Iceland is not all that Icy.

It's fucking hot in the summer.

There are no polar bears here.We might get the occasional polar bear from Greenland but it is a rare sight.

 

[Lullabye]

British people have good teeth! Free NHS covers it

What about british food? is it really that bad?

We invented the Roast Dinner.

What do you think?

eh, s'all right i guess.

Norway doesn't

1. Have polar bears in the streets.
2. Have shitloads of medieval things everywhere.

do you really have hookers on every street corner?

Well, I'm from Scotland, the fourth most stereotyped nation in the world.

So;

1. We do NOT always eat haggis. We eat haggis AND deep-fried everything.
2. We do NOT have a population of only 300.
3. We are NOT all ginger.
4. We are NOT stingy or moody; quite the opposite.
5. We DO love Irn Bru and whiskey.
6. We do NOT always play the bagpipes.
7. Insulting football over here is a one-way ticket to the infirmery
8. We ARE shit at sport.
And 9. We actually quite like the English. The Northern ones anyway,

This is actually quite helpful, i'll be sure to keep "football" and "sucks" out of the same sentence when visiting!

America is pretty much everything the world says about us, we kick ass first, ask questions later, and don't respect you or your dog.

We're also fat, immature, and most of us are stupid

apparently you're self aware too. good on ya.

 

[Icedshot]

English people dont: Obsessively drink tea and eat biscuits (although i do).
no, policemen dont wear stupid hats (though i wish they did )
and we dont have ridiculous accents that every single british video game character ever has (except for the woman in uncharted 2, she has a normal accent i think)

 

[Lullabye]

Canada:
1)Our official sport is Lacrosse, not Hockey (No, it doesn't make sense to me either.)

What is an official sport? Do we need one!?

uh, an official sport is just a patriotic way of saying "we're good at this!" Im sure England has one to. Maybe tea sipping?

 

[Voodoomancer]

Iceland:

- Yes, it is an actual country, and no, that wikipedia article on it is not faked. (don't ask why i need to bring this up)
- We aren't eskimoes, and dog sleds are not our primary mode of transportation
- We live in normal houses, with electricity and internet and all that (in fact, half the nation owns wide-screen plasma TV's, don't ask why either)
- No, Iceland is not actually covered in ice.
- The weather is quite nice, thanks to the gulf stream. We sometimes do get 4 different kinds of weather in one day though...