Common sterotypes of you and your country
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thankyou. although I currently reside in Atlanta, georgia, I've lived in Maryland for the first decade and a half of my life I know the feeling.Fbuh said:
seeing as how I'm Jewish, that just opens up all kinds of doors for stereotyping. no I don't have horns. no, I'm not obsessed with pennies. and, no, we don't eat babbies on passover. also, on the topic of manishewits, try mixing vodka and cough syrup and see how taste it is.
seeing as how I'm also an american, well carlston and B T A M R D said it best. yes thats us americans, insensitive putzes who don't give a rats ass about the rest of the world
I'm going to avoid the traditional tea swilling limey stereotype and go for the "brits are absolute pricks abroad" one
I'm from Texas.
Let's see, most people believe I ride a horse to school.
That I carry a gun at all times.
We only eat chili.
Everything is bigger.
Plus a few other.
Oh, and just about anytime I tell someone around the age of 30-50 where I'm from they recite that line from Full Metal Jacket.
Anyways, I don't ride a horse to school.
I do own weapons but I don't actively carry them.
I love chili, but we also have this amazing thing called Tex-Mex
Most things are bigger. Like our highways are longer. We have the worlds largest jackrabbit statue.
Oh, and yes it is true, every real Texan is extremely patriotic for their home state. They'll tell you anytime, just ask them.
Let's see, most people believe I ride a horse to school.
That I carry a gun at all times.
We only eat chili.
Everything is bigger.
Plus a few other.
Oh, and just about anytime I tell someone around the age of 30-50 where I'm from they recite that line from Full Metal Jacket.
Anyways, I don't ride a horse to school.
I do own weapons but I don't actively carry them.
I love chili, but we also have this amazing thing called Tex-Mex
Most things are bigger. Like our highways are longer. We have the worlds largest jackrabbit statue.
Oh, and yes it is true, every real Texan is extremely patriotic for their home state. They'll tell you anytime, just ask them.
.........Portugal?ExplosionProofTaco said:
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[/small]OP: America: Fat world-police. Obviously not true, if we were all fat how could we build such a big empire? (I do not support Imperialism, American or otherwise)
Most people over here are, however:
-Stupid
-Close-minded
-Lazy and whiney
It gets on my nerves.
Florida: Old people, Alligators eating people, and hot-as-balls weather. All true, although alligators only eat/kill people sometimes, it's not a common occurance.
Me: Everyone at my school seems to think that I'm sort of some intellectual anrachist revolutionary, (They're partly correct
) but that's only because I ask so many questions in history class and get into debates with the teachers and students. Also, people are always asking me where to buy Marijuana (Even though I wouldn't touch the crap) because I have slightly long hair.
You also forgot that we don't speak as the chef in muppets =)Moodels said:I'm from sweden.
I'm a girl.
The most commong questions I get when I say this are;
1. Are you blonde?
2. Do you have blue eyes?
3. Are your breasts big?
The swede-stereotype is a blonde bimbo basically.
Well let's see.
I'm american so I use the F-bomb in every other sentence.
I'm in PA so I live on a farm surrounded by Amish
I'm american so I use the F-bomb in every other sentence.
I'm in PA so I live on a farm surrounded by Amish
I'm English, and I'm into indie music, indie style, find redheaded Irish girls attractive, and enjoy theatre, musicals and film.
Stereotype:
Country: I have Cornish cream tea for lunch, drink tea in a dainty little cup and eat crumpets, play cricket, and hate the French. I also like wearing bowler hats and carry an umbrella wherever I go.
I actually enjoy Cornish cream tea despite not being from Cornwall, and I do like crumpets. However, usually I drink coffee, I don't really mind the French (unless you're a farmer in which case GET OFF YOUR FAT ARSE AND DO SOME PROPER WORK!!!!! I hate French farmers who are notriously inefficient whilst scrounging off the EU money paid to them by the CAP, most of which is actually British taxpayers' money... Oh, and I hate cricket. I much prefer rugby union, which is also an English sport. And I only wear a trilby hat and don't own an umbrella.
City: My original city is Birmingham (well, I was born and raised in a town just outside Brum), so apparently I'm straight away an idiot with a really stupid accent.
I don't actually have a Brummie accent as I was raised in the Black Country, which is just outside Birmingham, and we're extremely proud of not being Brummies (call someone from the Black Country a 'Brummie' and expect to get your teeth kicked in, and on the area called The Lost City near my home, that's only if you're extremely lucky...). And I'm at university and in Mensa so I'm obviously not an idiot.
My second, adopted home city, is Leeds. So living here, I'm apparently straight talking, no nonsense, friendly, hard working, and have a dry sense of humour.
I actually agree with all of that, except for the no nonsense bit and the fact that I have an extremely odd sense of humour that is by no means 'dry'. Flibberdidoodleschmidt! I'm a little teapot short and stout...
Stereotype:
Country: I have Cornish cream tea for lunch, drink tea in a dainty little cup and eat crumpets, play cricket, and hate the French. I also like wearing bowler hats and carry an umbrella wherever I go.
I actually enjoy Cornish cream tea despite not being from Cornwall, and I do like crumpets. However, usually I drink coffee, I don't really mind the French (unless you're a farmer in which case GET OFF YOUR FAT ARSE AND DO SOME PROPER WORK!!!!! I hate French farmers who are notriously inefficient whilst scrounging off the EU money paid to them by the CAP, most of which is actually British taxpayers' money... Oh, and I hate cricket. I much prefer rugby union, which is also an English sport. And I only wear a trilby hat and don't own an umbrella.
City: My original city is Birmingham (well, I was born and raised in a town just outside Brum), so apparently I'm straight away an idiot with a really stupid accent.
I don't actually have a Brummie accent as I was raised in the Black Country, which is just outside Birmingham, and we're extremely proud of not being Brummies (call someone from the Black Country a 'Brummie' and expect to get your teeth kicked in, and on the area called The Lost City near my home, that's only if you're extremely lucky...). And I'm at university and in Mensa so I'm obviously not an idiot.
My second, adopted home city, is Leeds. So living here, I'm apparently straight talking, no nonsense, friendly, hard working, and have a dry sense of humour.
I actually agree with all of that, except for the no nonsense bit and the fact that I have an extremely odd sense of humour that is by no means 'dry'. Flibberdidoodleschmidt! I'm a little teapot short and stout...
People usually associate me with America and most of Asia. Though I don't really get much criticism when it's about the US, though.
Anyways people seem to think that I eat cats and dogs, watch what can be basically explained as cartoon porn, pronounce my L's with R's, support communism, and... That's all I can think of for now.
Anyways people seem to think that I eat cats and dogs, watch what can be basically explained as cartoon porn, pronounce my L's with R's, support communism, and... That's all I can think of for now.
we're ginger we ware kilts and eat haggis
oh and we like deep-fried mars bars(i actually do)
guess i dare you
oh and we like deep-fried mars bars(i actually do)
guess i dare you
Hah, I guessed New Zealand right off the bat, then when I checked your profile I saw you live in Auckland! I have an aunt and cousins who lived there, I think they've moved to a different city now (though I'm not sure, I don't speak to them much since my mom handles all communication with her sister, by dint of my aunt having a habit of wasting phone bills by staying on the line for hours at a time. Thank God for Facebook...). But I digress. My point is, I was apparently right about it being New Zealand, and I have family over there, so I can probably say with some certainty that most of the stereotypes of New Zealanders are untrue. Undecided about the sheep sex one though...ExplosionProofTaco said:
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Well, there's certainly a selection:
Englishman: I drink tea, religiously, possibly out of my oh so precious top-hat
Ginger: Witless crazy fool
Native of Norfolk: Inbred farmers son
Private school pupil: So clever and posh that I'm somehow stupid and base. More top-hat references
Englishman: I drink tea, religiously, possibly out of my oh so precious top-hat
Ginger: Witless crazy fool
Native of Norfolk: Inbred farmers son
Private school pupil: So clever and posh that I'm somehow stupid and base. More top-hat references
Country: America, quote everyone above me.
City: Well I was born in NY and EVERYONE assumes the NYC
Current: PA, yes we have amish. No I do not share my yard with them.
City: Well I was born in NY and EVERYONE assumes the NYC
Current: PA, yes we have amish. No I do not share my yard with them.
Well.....? Are you?Moodels said:I'm from sweden.
I'm a girl.
The most commong questions I get when I say this are;
1. Are you blonde?
2. Do you have blue eyes?
3. Are your breasts big?
The swede-stereotype is a blonde bimbo basically.
OT: Fat, stupid rednecks wearing red, white, and blue. Go USA!