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Danish rage

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I_am_a_Spoon said:
Superior Mind said:
I'm from New Zealand. When was the last the a New Zealander was portrayed in a film or TV show?
Ever seen Yes Man?

OT: Everyone knows that Australian men are vulgar, racist, alcoholic layabouts. We spend all our free time either riding, wrestling and/or fleeing the native wildlife, and have wives that look like semi-trailers.

As for you Canadians... you're pretty much the Kiwis of North America.
Hahahaha, nice! You forgot pottheads. :)

The Kiwis of North America! It´s a bloddy topografy joke. Classic mate! :)

Sry for Offtopic.
 

Danish rage

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Vykrel said:
well im from america, so everyone knows how the worlds sees us.

but more specifically, im from florida, so people see my state as being full of stupid people, crazy people, and old people. also, its not always hot here
Old people and Jeb Bush. Or is it the same thing? :)
 

Bon_Clay

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Canada, the middle child of the developed world. Any time something goes down that is notable on a world wide scale we get generally get no mention. Our living conditions are generally exactly as the same as someone in most American states, but our country doesn't have the aggressive image so we just fly under the radar.

Generally this suits us just fine I think, getting passionate about stuff isn't a very Canadian thing. Not a lot of pressure on us, and we don't have to worry about offending anyone.
 

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bl4ckh4wk64 said:
nin_ninja said:
I'm Canadian, and as such we never really get any notice in the entertainment industry, excluding our horrible movies and TV shows

Blasphemy! Strange Brew was probably the second greatest comedy I've ever seen. Oh and OT: I'm not really sure how California is represented, but we do have Hollywood...
Generally California is represented like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-5F_7DwPpo
 

Nocturnal Gentleman

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I don't think I need to go into the American stereotypes. Everybody else covered that pretty well.
State-wise I'm a Marylander. We're known as...for...who am I kidding? No one cares. I do find it interesting though that many southern people call us northeners when technically we're part of the south too. Just Lincon didn't screw around and forced us to stay in the union. When most people think Maryland they think Washinngton D.C. with the white house and everything. Too bad that's in Maryland but isn't part of us. I guess "the suffering" counts.

I'm also a Virginian(my home state). We're known for being the first state and for that godawful Pocahontas movie. We're also known as the state for lovers I think? I guess there's nothing better for love than vineyards and alpacas. Our cousin state West Virginia is known for being full of hillbillies that love incest.

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oregon- where is that? the mid west?
Hey! You forgot all the eco terrorists and that everyone who originally traveled to your state had at least one family member die of dysentery.
 

NJ

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Given everyone nailed the USA stereotype, might as well follow the lead of others and go indepth state wise.

Manhattan, NY - USA...

Corrupt cops, models, being able to plot a route from Battery Park to Dyckman Ave during rush hour on the top of your head but not being able to pinpoint Nebraska on the map, so many foreigners that none of your friends share the same nationality, cabbies can out-drive the Stig and Naw Yawk accents.

*frown*
 

SadakoMoose

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The US tends to come off the wrong way to foreign countries because of who our political leaders are.
Most Americans are actually decent enough people, and if there was no Fox News, would be centre-left.
Like Captain America.
He may look like a patriotic mess, but he IS a product of the Roosevelt Administration.
The MSER (Mad Scientist Employment Reconstruction) Program.
After WW1, Wilson scaled back our doomsday weapons budget and put a lot of mad scientists out of jobs. Coolidge didn't help...
 

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RhombusHatesYou said:
Get_A_Grip_ said:
Ireland.

Need I say more?
That depends... are you sober enough to say more? :D



OT: Australia... ummm... something with beer and boomerangs.
Don't forget your army of kangeroos and you seem like the most likely to survive WW3.
 

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I_am_a_Spoon said:
Superior Mind said:
I'm from New Zealand. When was the last the a New Zealander was portrayed in a film or TV show?
Ever seen Yes Man?

OT: Everyone knows that Australian men are vulgar, racist, alcoholic layabouts. We spend all our free time either riding, wrestling and/or fleeing the native wildlife, and have wives that look like semi-trailers.

As for you Canadians... you're pretty much the Kiwis of North America.
I thought you guys were all chill and relaxed... o_O
 

JourneyThroughHell

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I am from Russia. We wear ushankas, try to invade everyone, have no regard for human life and drink a lot.

Those are, of course, largely untrue. Except for drinking. That is a pretty common problem.
 

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bl4ckh4wk64 said:
The Historical examples you're giving are from the area we know today as Poland, I don't believe that it was called Poland back then, or was even a country... I thought Modern-day Poland was created after WWI to BE a "buffer zone" between Soviet Russia and the rest of Europe... AP EUROPEAN HISTORY LIED TO ME!!! (...) I'm not insulting Poland, I'm stating that your arguments are false.
What, what, what, WHAT?!

OBJECTION!

I don't even know where did you got that info. Poland as a country officially exists since 966 AD, after Mieszko I, the first ruler of Poland was baptized, and it became a kingdom with it's next ruler, and the first king - Bolesław Chrobry. It lived for better or worse for several centuries, and most of the history facts mentioned by my fellow Pole (Copernicus, beating the Turks at Vienna, etc.) were done by people from the Kingdom of Poland, thank you very much. And those which came during the Age of Particions, were still performed by the Poles, even if they didn't have their own land.

Poland lost their lands in 1795 when Prussia, Russia and Austria took it away, but that didn't mean, Pole's were gone. Oh no, we were still there, and fought for our land, really hard (two major uprisings in 1830, and 1863).

Your "buffer zone" statement is also false. That was the propaganda of the fascist nations, and they said the same thing about Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, etc. The truth is, while Entente approved the idea of recreating Polish country (but they wouldn't even think about it if Roman Dmowski and Ignacy Paderewski wouldn't fight politically for it), it was WE who took our own lands by force in 1918 from Prussia, Austria, Russia, and also Ukraine (Lviv). If the entire Entente just said 'no' to our efforts, we would still had our lands back, thanks to our troops (also, if we would just sit on our asses and wait for Entente's move, we would probably be left with only Warsaw and terrains nearby).

I dunno, how much you Americans learn about Poland, but I assume very little. We only learn about the US Declaration of Independency, and briefly about US war with Brits, and WWII maniacs also teach about their involvement in the conflict, so I take, you don't really learn much about one specific country on one specific continent. I understand that, and I'm not going to call anyone idiot for that. But for Christ sake, check out your facts next time. Also, if someone from other country tells you something about the history of it, you should probably believe him, as he's learning it since primary school. In my case, I'm also a son of two history teachers, so you can bet the paragraphs above are true, I consulted it all with my mom.

Sorry, if it sounded a bit angry, it wasn't supposed to. Also, thanks. I was extremely sleepy (I woke up at 5AM), and your post woke me up perfectly :p
 

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I'm an Australian, I guess we are stereotyped like Steve Irwin saying "Crikey" all the time, or that we have koala's in our back yard, or we ride a kangaroo to work. Also I think when a movie is trying to show that a character is Australian, in most situations they will give him the most refined, purest, quintessential Australian accent and when I hear this I feel ashamed.
 

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Yossarian1507 said:
bl4ckh4wk64 said:
The Historical examples you're giving are from the area we know today as Poland, I don't believe that it was called Poland back then, or was even a country... I thought Modern-day Poland was created after WWI to BE a "buffer zone" between Soviet Russia and the rest of Europe... AP EUROPEAN HISTORY LIED TO ME!!! (...) I'm not insulting Poland, I'm stating that your arguments are false.
What, what, what, WHAT?!

OBJECTION!

SNIP
Well, I'm from Canada and the American and Canadian school system don't teach us much about Eastern-European countries at ALL, unless we take a world's history class. Hell America avoids the War of 1812 where we burned down their White House twice, and we avoid a lot of the things settlers did to the natives here.
 

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In Washington? Nothing much special happens. Other than people think we eat a LOT of seafood when we actually don't eat that much. You get sick of it really easily. In the U.S.A.? Fat slobs who are too prideful and ignorant. I don't personally think that but I have to admit, there are some FAT americans over here.
 

CrazyGirl17

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I don't know if there are any sterotypes for Pennsylvania in particular, so I'm gonna go with the American sterotype of the bombastic nationalist.

(Doesn't stop me from loving Axis Powers Hetalia, though...)
 

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Vodka, mafia, terrorists, cold, bad shave, thick accent, burly, often stupid or melodramatic and communist (red/kremlin/ect). Usually the unsophisticated villain or henchman. Or, well, that MW airport level... whatever we are there, I guess. That being my Russian side.
As for the Canadian one.. er... I've never really seen a Canadian video game or anime character. <.< Geez.
Commander Shepard Male variant counts as one.;-)