Clearing up misconceptions about your country!

[SomeLameStuff]

In Singapore
- No the government does not control everything. I can still go to the toilet anytime I want.
- We are not in danger of being invaded by Malaysia, for two reasons:
1) Our army is the best trained in these parts.
2) Give Malaysians guns, they'll shoot each other first.
- We have actually fought for our freedom, don't listed to those retards who insist we were handed our freedom.
- No, we don't Sao Feng here
- NO! WE ARE NOT IN TEXAS!!!

 

[Superior Mind]

New Zealanders don't have sex with sheep. I imagine one or two lonely souls might indulge but trust me when I say it's not a national pastime. Anyway sheep are gross, especially around that area.
But yeah, the country is full of sheep. I think it's a 4:1 ratio of sheep to people.

What else? There's not really enough conceptions about New Zealand to get a decent collection of misconceptions.

 

[ottenni]

- And really there isn't that many dangerous animals, except magpies.

Is this why they're dangerous?

YES! Evil bastards!

 

[Vianyte]

- Most English people are not posh
- Very few of us actually drink tea. However LOADS of us drink coffee.
- Most of us have good teeth
- Most of the "English accents" in film and TV don't sound anything like any sort of English accent.
- Manners is what many of our people lack.
- We (or most of us) aren't patriotic in any shape or form.
- Most of us don't really care about the queen.

I can't think of anything else

 

[FinalGamer]

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 infirmary
8. We ARE shit at sport.
And 9. We actually quite like the English. The Northern ones anyway,

Yeah I can support all this as a fellow Scot too. We do love to deep-fry stuff as part of our cuisine.
We are a very passionate people. VERY, we love people, ESPECIALLY Canadians I find, who are practically cousins to us <3
I will say that our population is outnumbered by World of Warcraft. And is also outnumbered by London.

We are also very proud of our history, and some of us are a bit gushing about it.
Also, some of us do not mind being called "British", but some take it to equal as being called "English" so avoid calling us either to avoid any offence.

And one more addition, we do not always wear kilts. We wear kilts as the equivalent of a tuxedo, only for special occasions. And you don't HAVE to wear any underwear underneath it but it IS preferred if you're at, say, a wedding.

 

[Krythe]

In America:

- We're not all armed to the teeth with at least 56 different guns and knives. That's more or less just the central US. (Thankfully where I live, woot. *firepower*)

-Most high schools actually do require you to study one or more foreign languages for at least 2-3 years before graduating, but it mostly gets rusty and goes to waste because we never get a chance to actually USE it.

-We're not all overweig... ok, that one has some basis. (If you're tall and skinny finding clothes which don't fit like parachute pants is like searching for the holy grail.)

 

[Datalord]

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?

Nice

 

[mew4ever23]

More Canada:

We do not talk like the "Canadians" in south park.
We speak normal English and hardly ever use the word "Eh".
Our country is not a wall of Ice and Snow.... At least, most of it.
anything I've forgotten?

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

In Australia
- We do not ride Kangaroos.
- Not everything is poisonous and trying to kill us.
- We don't say 'G'day' and 'mate' that much.
- And really there isn't that many dangerous animals, except magpies.

And i don't really know what other misconceptions there are.

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

This pretty much covers all Australia's misconceptions. Oh We don't all live in the middle of the fucking outback with our nearest neighbor being 2 hours away. That's only farmers, most of us live in big fucking cities you know? Maybe you've heard of some of them, Sydney? Melbourne? Adelaide? (ok no ones heard of Adelaide but you get my point)

 

[Omega NZ]

New Zealanders don't have sex with sheep. I imagine one or two lonely souls might indulge but trust me when I say it's not a national pastime. Anyway sheep are gross, especially around that area.
But yeah, the country is full of sheep. I think it's a 4:1 ratio of sheep to people.

What else? There's not really enough conceptions about New Zealand to get a decent collection of misconceptions.

I can add a few more. No, we don't ALL have tartar on our teeth. We DO NOT all speak in monotones, just a lot of us and no we don't bungee jump everywhere. I think that about covers it.

 

[Reklore]

We don't fuck Sheep!

Edit: ninja'd

 

[lovetropicana]

Australia: We're pretty much like america's little brother, the obesity population is rising dramatically, there are the lower economic class (called bogans instead of rednecks, but are pretty much the same thing, except not all bogans need to be white) ...
Problems you've probably never heard about: The cities and everything where white people populate are pretty much like any other normal first world city, some people are super friendly, many are not
Drive out a few hours and reach some rural towns and meet third world countries, usually our aboriginal population, mostly problems of alcohol and uneducated people, the life expectancy is shocking. In 2009, the ABS estimated life expectancy at 67.2 years for Indigenous men (11.5 years less than for non-Indigenous) and 72.9 years for Indigenous women (9.7 years less than for non-Indigenous (from wiki, but the ABS is pretty reliable).
Australia is so opposite

 

[Thaius]

America is most definitely not a Christian nation. Even if the majority of people in the country are (which, despite the statistics, is obviously not the case based on any amount of experience), the values that govern America are completely contrary to those of Christianity. Anyone who says otherwise is either a) not from here, or b) incorrectly of the idea that conservative = Christian.

 

[Hayday]

Canadians do in fact say Eh a lot. We have roads. And we don't ride polar bears to school. Also most of us hate Americans. Oh and we are smarter quite a bit smarter then Americans.

 

[Nincompoop]

The Faroe Islands is not located in or near Egypt. In case you thought; 'Pharaoh Islands'.

 

[wasalp]

More Canada:

We do not talk like the "Canadians" in south park.
We speak normal English and hardly ever use the word "Eh".
Our country is not a wall of Ice and Snow.... At least, most of it.
anything I've forgotten?

well maybe the french population of canada. Could anyone list some of stereotypes so that I can confirm or deny

 

[Dudemeister]

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?

I wish. I'd be in the Olympics by now.

 

[lovetropicana]

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?

I wish. I'd be in the Olympics by now.

Maybe just sitting back and watching sports on TV?

 

[Sulu]

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?

I wish. I'd be in the Olympics by now.

Its apparently football. Which we are notoriously bad at, the English Premier league is meant to be the highest paying/highest quality football in europe but the team were once beaten by an ancient civilisation (Macedonia).

 

[Doctor Glocktor]

Most Canadians hate the French language and do not speak it constantly.