Stereotypes of your city/state/region/country, and are they true?

[UmJammerSully]

Seems there's an army of us English invading this thread already but I'll add my two cents nonetheless.

Tea - 100% true I think. I only know a few people that don't drink tea, and I am one of them.

Crumpets - This one is reversed. I don't know many people that eat 'em, but I am one of them. Crumpets and jam, yum!

Bad Teeth - Soak it in, suckers. [http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=7933596&story_id=15060097]

Royalty - Most younger people could not give less of a shit about our royalty, but a lot of the older folk eat it up as evident by the 24 million people that watched the royal wedding this year [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/apr/30/royal-wedding-television-audience]. -_-

 

[Togs]

Bath- Toffee nosed posh pricks sunning themselves outside cafes drinking coffee, and yeah it kinda is.
Wiltshire- Cider drinking yokels everywhere, whilst cider is ubiquitous here the yokels are rare.
UK- Too lengthy and complicated to go into.

 

[Togs]

England - Effeminate, posh, priggish, restrained, Well, I can understand the restrained part. The poshness though is very region specific (read: Southern fairies).

Not so much, dont believe everything your told.

 

[teebeeohh]

so let's start:
Germany, we hate our nazis as much as the next guy. Our engineers are indeed awesome. And yes, he use the EU to abuse the shit out of the smaller European countries. We don't hate the french anymore, we still think the polish and Russians steal our cars and we really hate our military.

Berlin, we hate tourists with a passion but since we need them to keep the city alive we are OK with ignoring them and leave the hate speech to our bus drivers. We are ridiculously diverse since a) it's always been cheap to live and it is cool which is why all the weird people from the south move here and try to bring their weird customs with them(greeting your neighbors, who am i some kind of backwater hillbilly?)

 

[Thundero13]

Lets see, are the Irish a bunch of drunken, stupid, ugly, crazy, bastards? Yes, yes they are
Their accents are terrible aswell

Also I see we're back to the old type of captcha, good

 

[Vault101]

Auatralia

barley anyone lives in what you call the "outback" we all live in nice citys around the coast

umm as for Western Australia...I dont know of many steryotypes

however Tasmania has a reputation for incest..for some reason

 

[GWarface]

Spoiler

1. Danes love to stereotype - things works better if everything and everyone fit into neat little categories
2. Danes do not like to initiate any sort of interaction - if you pass someone on the street, they will always avert their eyes, even on the train it is often eerily quiet
3. Danes love to hear what foreigners think about Danes
4. Danes love to explain to foreigners what Danes are like
5. Danes resent the fact that their country is known primarly by the Little Mermaid statue
6. Despite #5, Danes make sure everyone knows who H.C. Anderson was
7. Danes are humble - I have never met a single one who was snotty or condescending
8. Danes do not like being compared to Swedes
9. Danes think of Germany as a country they have to drive through to get to the rest of Europe
10. Danes can speak excellent English - except for the older generation
11. Danes will usually not stop to help or hold the door for you, unless you ask, in which case they will be very willing
12. Danes love pizza
13. Danes think bathtubs are a luxury
14. Danes complain about the high taxes but really don't mind so much
15. Danes are obsessed with candles
16. Danes use any excuse to display the flag
17. Danes are patient in all circumstances except for getting on and off the train/bus
18. Danes don't like George Bush (but then again, who does outside of the US?)
19. Danes are very liberal with their use of swear words
20. Danes still fondly remember when they won the European Football Championship a few years ago (actually it was more like 15 years ago...)
21. Danes from Copenhagen consider their island the mainland, while Danes from Jutland consdier their peninsula the mainland
22. Danes are not all blonde-haired, blue-eyed - but a lot of them are!
23. Danes leave their babies outside in their prams while they shop
24. Danes dress their babies up in extremely warm clothing, even when it's not that cold outside
25. Danes are not known to provide excellent customer service
26. Danes put a strong emphasis on work-life balance
27. Danes are fond of their Viking heritage
28. Danes love their royal family - the emblem of the crown is seen everywhere
29. Danes have a do-it-yourself attitude
30. Danes have a forward thinking sense of gender equality

Just a list i found on the danish stereotypes.. Its quite right..

 

[Vault101]

Well I live in Washington and I remember my math teacher saying that while he was in Cali and was talking with some people they asked where he was from, he said "Washington" and they thought we had polar beads here and that it rained everyday. The rain part is true though and if it's not raining it's cloudy out.

are there alot of mormons around?

 

[Hugga_Bear]

English
-So, tea and crumpets? Sometimes, yeah. I am a pretty big tea fan but overall I drink way more coffee. Crumpets are a rarity but they're nice enough.
-Posh accent? For me, yeah relatively. For others around me? No, not at all.
-Bad teeth? See UmJammerSully's post.

Essex
-Chavs. Millions of the buggers but they're not all that bad, they're just like flies, mildly annoying but easy enough to swat. Flies with big mouths and small penises.
-All girls put out. No not really, I've been around most of this country and it's pretty much the same everywhere. I mean Essex girls might be a little sluttier, but the type who's proud of being an Essex girl is a straight up slapper and you find them everywhere.

 

[Zyntoxic]

I'm in Stockholm, Sweden and well the steriotypes I've encountered are... strange to say the least.

as a country people seemes to think we put out more, easier to get into a bed with you...
aaand no, we have a more relaxed view towards sex both for men and women but in general don't f*ck around more than other nations do.

an other steriotype is that 90% of the swedish population is blonde and have blue eyes, this too i not true, blondes are a dying minority here too. and our women do NOT have humogous boobs, b-cups and c-cups are the most common.

The third and probably most well based steriotype is: Swedes ar unemotional robots.
while not entirely true but we have a culture more based around public and exessive show of emotion being frowned upon, but that gets better by each generation ^_^


As for Stockholm, I don't know any specific steriotype views from around the world but in Sweden people from Atockholm are consedered imperious, arrogant pricks.

well... we are kind of better than the rest of Sweden... lol, I'm kidding, but ther often seem to be a rather big difference between stockholm and the rest of sweden, but I might just think that because of city-pride, since national-pride is very frowned upon we take pride in our cities instead.

as for the steriotype, well as with most people some are pricks and others are not.

 

[Henkie36]

I'm from the east of the Netherlands, and the stereotype around here is that peolpe drink alot of beer. This is true, and since I haven't lived here my entire life, I was quite impressed the first time.

 

[DaWaffledude]

Ireland. Not pronounced Oireland.

We also aren't obsessed with potatoes any more and have perfectly good electricity and internet.

 

[Ranorak]

The Netherlands:
-Yes, we do consume quite a bit of cheese.
-No, we don't wear wooden shoes on a regular bases, some farmers still do, though.
-No, weed isn't legal, it's condoned.
-No, not everyone is stoned 99% of the time.
-No, Amsterdam is the capital, not the whole country.
-Yes, Going Dutch is actually pretty common here.
-Yes, we do have some functional windmills left.

 

[Flip-Shying]

I live in South Africa. Everyone here thinks that we ride elephants to work, have lions walking among us and that we have no sort of structure to the country what so ever. It's all rubbish though and we have a perfectly good country in terms of economy, roads, etc.

 

[Wuggy]

I hail from Finland. Now, to list off some stereotypes and give my take on them:

Finland is a very cold country - Partially true
The winters here seem very cold to non-northern people. Now I live in the very south end, so I get the mildest version. Up in the laplands, around the polar circle it does get significantly cold in the winters.

However, it is not as though we have snow all year, we have fairly hot summers like the rest of the countries.

Finns are rude/depressed - Huge generalization
You can't describe a persona of an entire country, some Finns are rude and some are not. However, there is still a reason why this stereotype exists: Finns, especially in the southern parts of Finland (like Helsinki, which is where I live), people are not talkative nor show emotion in public. It's peculiar when a complete stranger comes talk to you on the street in Finland. It's really a cultural thing and this may put off people from countries with more social cultures.

Finns are alcoholic - Not entirely false
It is true that alcohol is one of the most common causes of death for a working age Finnish male. This is undeniable. However, this doesn't come from the fact that "All finns are alcoholic" but from, again, Finnish culture. In the Finnish culture a state of drunkenness has never been really shunned upon but it's rather seen as a social phenomenom, and a positive one at that.

The president looks like Conan O'Brien - Entirely true
Just look at it:

 

[Avalanche91]

Dutch.....probably free minded, uncaring, greedy, tullip and wooden shoe wearing, stoner stereotypes.......I'll get back to you on that one

The Netherlands:
-Yes, we do consume quite a bit of cheese.
-No, we don't wear wooden shoes on a regular bases, some farmers still do, though.
-No, weed isn't legal, it's condoned.
-No, not everyone is stoned 99% of the time.
-No, Amsterdam is the capital, not the whole country.
-Yes, Going Dutch is actually pretty common here.
-Yes, we do have some functional windmills left.
-Yes we do love our tullips, and give a boatload to Canada each year
-No, there isn't a windmill on every corner
-No, our country isn't called Amsterdam
-Yes, that thing Fox news said about Holland/Amsterdam are utter lies. surprised?
-Yes, we make fun of Belgium

Saves me a lot of time. Thanks Ranorak

 

[DaJoW]

Guess I'll just go on what I've heard, not sure how common the stereotypes actually are...

It isn't dark/light all year, it averages out the same pretty much everywhere.
We're not all blonde, just the majority. I think we're the second "blondest" country in the world, second to Finland.
Not all the men are homosexual, nor all the women sluts (seems to be common on the Internet).
It isn't freezing all year round, we actually have a fairly mild climate.
We do drink quite a lot, especially at New Years, Easter, Midsummer, November 13th (near-exclusively young people) and Christmas. Less so in families with children.
There are no polar bears here.

As for Stockholm, I don't know any specific steriotype views from around the world but in Sweden people from Atockholm are consedered imperious, arrogant pricks.

Also sissies. "Sissyswamp" (fjollträsk) is a pretty common name for Stockholm around these parts.

 

[Biodeamon]

from what i know from my welsh friends they don't hump sheep...And coming from a British father i don't have crooked teeth...

http://youtu.be/wCgx8zM3woQ

 

[Ruairi iliffe]

Northern Ireland(but living in germany now)

Yes we are slightly mad, but Hey at least we are intresting.

No not everyone speaks 'Norn Iron' But Belfast is full of them at times.
(example for those Lucky not the have heard this accent till now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJH3_mYFPYc )

I've only see one bomb go off, and most of the time the capitial isnt on fire... apart from the last week.

And lastly we wont go ape shite mad if you call one of us 'Irish/British' Incorrectly.
But on that note, i am sick of the germans mixing it up on every document with my name on it >.<

 

[maninahat]

England - Effeminate, posh, priggish, restrained, Well, I can understand the restrained part. The poshness though is very region specific (read: Southern fairies).

Not so much, dont believe everything your told.

I was sepaking from experience. On average, the Southern tend to have posher sounding accents, perhaps due to the historically greater numbers of middle-class/white collar roles in the South. Obviously they are huge numbers of exceptions (Cornish, Cockney etc.). DOn't worry about it too much: a recent trip to Oxford reveals that you also have a much higher proportion of attractive people than the North.