Stereotypes of where you come from

[OneBig Man]

America

Fat and obnoxious and stupid.

And somehow we're also lumped in with being uber patriotic.

Yay America...
Specifically Indiana here, so... GO CORN!

HELL YEAH!

 

[300lb. Samoan]

What's the difference? Federal vs. City Government? Or black anarchists vs. white religious kooks?

Well, I think the biggest difference of all is Anti-Flag and Left-Over Crack [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Move_bombing#References_in_music] didn't write songs about Waco, therefore not fostering public understanding of the event. Hurrrr!

(Don't hold me to that, it's more than likely Anti-Flag did write numerous songs about Waco and Left-Over Crack has followed their lead accordingly.)

 

[SilkySkyKitten]

Minnesota. Supposedly, we all speak like we're from the movie Fargo and it's snowy and cold all year, according to what many from other parts of the country seem to think.

Those people apparently haven't been here in August (can someone say 90-100 degrees fahrenheit with terribly high humidity?), nor have they listened to a real Minnesotan speak.

 

[God's Clown]

Stereotype I got from being a Michigander one time was all Michigan people sound arrogant, or something. Not sure where they got that from.

 

[UltraParanoia]

According to Southern Virginians all Northern Virginians are basically Europe's stereotype of all Americans, fat obnoxious stupid yuppies.

better than what everybody thinks about west virginians

also i thought south virginia had more of a yuppie sterotype (at least here in maryland it does)

Well, I am basing this mostly off of UrbanDictionary definitions but seriously check out the definitions of "Northern Virginia" and "Southern Virgina" all of the defintions of SoVa take some form of cheap-shot at NoVa ussually something about us not having "Southern hospitality" and all of the NoVa definitions are written by SoVans who just bash the crap out of this area.

I think it comes from the fact that y'all are too close to DC for your own good.

 

[vodkainferno]

I'm from New york.. I'm either Italian, or Irish, and live in a city...

Wait... those first two sound familiar...

EDIT: Oh yea, the environment. It can fix it self. I will drive my H1 hummer where ever I god damn please, even though it gets 17 gallons to the mile!

 

[Slayer_2]

We Canadians apparently all live in igloos and hunt beavers. Funny, because we usually don't get snow where I live, EVER. Silly stereotypes like this are fun though, as I can play the guy who mentions them.

For example, if someone (usually an American) asks me how it is living in a igloo, I just reply that it is a ***** to stop it from melting in the winter.

 

[Good Wolf]

Southland of New Zealand. The american expression of "the south" applies here. Inbred, banjo-playing, sheep-fucking hics with a farmer's accent.... just because I say "car" instead of "cah".

More broader, sheep-fucking kiwi.

I am from Massachusetts which means I like to throw tea into harbors.

lol'd

 

[Veritas0323]

According to Southern Virginians all Northern Virginians are basically Europe's stereotype of all Americans, fat obnoxious stupid yuppies.

better than what everybody thinks about west virginians

also i thought south virginia had more of a yuppie sterotype (at least here in maryland it does)

Well, I am basing this mostly off of UrbanDictionary definitions but seriously check out the definitions of "Northern Virginia" and "Southern Virgina" all of the defintions of SoVa take some form of cheap-shot at NoVa ussually something about us not having "Southern hospitality" and all of the NoVa definitions are written by SoVans who just bash the crap out of this area.

thats weird, i go to virginia fairly often i live in rockville/potomac which is right by the border

everywhere i've been in NoVa has been nicer than SoVa (newport is a dump)

 

[Anticitizen_Two]

New Jersey. People think I drink toxic waste every day for breakfast before going to work on my Situation-esque abs.

 

[A.A.K]

well i spent a majority of my own life in Australia, so ive been riding kangaroos to school, wrestling crocs at night whilst wearing corkscrew hats using colloquialisms in everyday life with a beer stationed on my 4th belly.

though heritage....turk/german/arab/syrian/english/indian.

I eat tonnes of curry, am emaciated, i have 40 brothers and sisters i never new of, i drink tea to survive, i have a terrible accent, i blow up whilst screaming "WALALALLALALALALALA", i worship a bull, i own a kebab shop AND im a nazi worshiping sausage muncher.

 

[Sahasrahla]

Seattle/Pacific Northwest: We're all flannel-wearing, unshaven software geeks with a salmon fetish.

Actually, when I was younger I was told that Seattle was the gay capital of the US.

Huh. I've actually never heard that one. It is a pretty gay-friendly city, but most of what people know about it involves rain, Nirvana or Microsoft.

 

[Zombus]

Canadian but that has been done. Instead: if you live on the eastside of Vancouver B.C., it means you are a poor, lazy, jobless, stupid, criminal methhead and/or pot grower who will pick locks and kill people just because. I go to a west side school because I'm in the mini program and smart and unhumble, and other students will say some of the most ignorant shit about the eastside. One of my teachers was late to class and left the room locked, and when he showed up and saw everyone waiting out side he said he was surprised i hadn't picked the lock to let everyone in. I play on the rugby team and the coach wouldn't let me pay for my jersey once he found out where I live. Finally, the most insulting of all, a peer counsellor at my school once recommended to me a "good rehab center", and she thought she was being nice and caring and sensitive and was offended when I less than politely declined. The embers of rage still burn crimson, I must say.

 

[Xyphon]

Louisiana stereotypes that I know of are that we are all uneducated, inbred, racist and we all own guns.

 

[Janus Vesta]

Irish. We all drink beer all the time, tea when we can't get beer, we all wear green, we fight all the time, we hate the English, we all speak with a Kerry accent or a mid-Dublin accent, we have all seen/are Leprechauns, we live in thatched cottages, and we are all devout Catholics.

In reality:
We do drink a lot, but not all the time. Coffee is just as popular as tea. We mostly wear green on holidays. We fight as often as anyone else. Hating the English is more of a joke than anything else, we're over the 800 years. There is a rediculously wide range of Irish accents considering there are only 4 million of us. Actually the Leprechaun thing is true. I have never seen a thatched cottage in my life. Most people I know are Athiests or don't care about religion.

 

[RN7]

Canada: Mini-America, except we have never fought in any war, have no military, and are Communists, who also live in Igloos and ride dogsleds, sell furs, speak French, have Terrorists every square kilometer, and always have snow.

... Yeah, makes me want to choke a Texan too.

HA HA HA! Communism. Never fighting wars. Igloos.

Though I despise Canadians, they have a decent military, are like super-socialists, kicked the white, american jackasses in their daddy-bags in 1814 (and burned down their most important piece of infrastructure), and on top of that, their parliament is actually FUN, to watch. Nothings better than a bunch of fat white dudes yelling at each other about healthcare!

But they do enjoy maple syrup. It's embedded at birth, they keep a personal stock of it. They have to get a hit every 3 hours to avoid going insane.

Nationalism ftw

 

[saintchristopher]

In lower-state New York, people tend to think we're pretentious and that we think we're better than everyone else.

Frankly, I can live with it.

 

[RN7]

My turn.

Southeastern U.S.A. I live in the country, I'm poor (har har, proleteriats...), I own a farm, I've seen a cellphone, computer or video game console and have a southern drawl.

and through through heritage/genetics

OH SWEET LAWDA JASUS IMA SORRAH MASTA SAH. Take a good, hard, long time to guess what that is.

Despite this, I live in the 2nd most urbanized part of my state, have no accent what to speak of (besides the occasional y'all when i'm off guard), am very tech-savvy, am in the lower-upper class of society finicially, have a highly above average IQ, hate rap, wear my pants around my waist (not my knees) and enjoy reading, writing horror/supernatural/sci-fi based pieces of literature, videojuegos (I enjoy that word, almost as much as vas Qwib-Qwib) and the interwebz.

My great-grandfather did own a farm thought, which was actually worth a good deal of money.
dolla dolla bills y'all!

 

[Pegghead]

According to most of the world here in Australia we're a bunch of cork hat, blue singlet, boardies and thongs wearing, VB and Fosters drinking, barbie having, kangaroo riding, croc wrestling slang slurring hick manly men currently being oppressed by the evil Mike the merciless in his palace of human skulls (Or from our perspective the slightly uptight, misinformed attorney general Micheal Atkinson who is just delaying the inevitable.).