What Is Your Idea Of The Average American?

[NeutralDrow]

"Average" American? Are you including California in that? I'm trying to imagine what someone 44% Latino, 40% European, 10% Asian, 5% black, and 1% American Indian would look and act like...

Ha!

Here's a sample

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Now combine that with lucy lui and halle berry.

And I'd imagine her average meals would include chicken soup, sinigang na baboy, tamales, donburi, mapo tofu, kimchi, bún bò huế, sweet potatoes, and okra. Not necessarily all at once.

 

[FallenRainbows]

Rather i think of americans as a super power whos even sitting on top of the world for too long. Well times are changing and they are lowing their ego..

Americans will never lower there ego.........

no,we never will. you know why? because we've never lost a war,and fought through some of the worst wars in the last 500 years. revolutionary,1812,civil,WWI,WWII,korean,vietnam,gulf,and right now iraqi/afgan. i believe we're the best country in all history,but that's just because i'm quite a bit ignorant. i love my country. and that's that.

You won Vietnam? since when? and last time I checked you always have help, pick on small countries or join in late. Or just think angry thoughts at people with the ability to blow you to hell and back.

Most Americans I know are either here (awesome) of XBL (arrogant, ignorant stupid and annoying) but so is every one on XBL. And besides where your from doesn't change your behaviour each person is an individual.

 

[Zeuriel]

America is a good place to live.

Except if you don't have health insurance. As a tangent, I always found it more than a little bit odd how the same people on the other side of the pond who speak out vehemently against abortion couldn't care less if people die because they can't pay for their medical care. Religious "morality" for the win! Oh - on that note - I'd also say being Atheist in the states probably sucks the big one as well.

 

[Agayek]

Except if you don't have health insurance. As a tangent, I always found it more than a little bit odd how the same people on the other side of the pond who speak out vehemently against abortion couldn't care less if people die because they can't pay for their medical care. Religious "morality" for the win! Oh - on that note - I'd also say being Atheist in the states probably sucks the big one as well.

Eh, being an atheist has never caused a problem for me.

You'll find religious nutjobs anywhere, though.

 

[.Warheart]

Fat and stubby, retarded, and interested in nothing more but own country.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Fat, religious, stupid as fuck, but have strong morals and ideals (even if they're not the best ones)

 

[Agayek]

Fat and stubby, retarded, and interested in nothing more but own country.

Isn't that everyone though? Well, with the possible exception of fat and stubby.

 

[Liverandbacon]

The average American is like the average person everywhere else. Any claims other than this are ignorant stereotyping.

(I would know, as although I wasn't in there, I now live in America, and have thus met more Americans than many of you ever will.)

 

[veryboringfact]

fat

 

[Yudas]

The news and tv-programmes we get in my country from america, makes the majority of them look like ignorant, fat, oil-hungry extremist phonies.. That tbh tells me more about the viewers of the tv-programmes, than it does of Americans as a people. It seems that Europeans love to look down on the USA, yet most of our television programmes comes from across the pond. If only the tv-channels would focus on other parts of their culture than Hannah-Montannah and the wars in the middle east.

It's excusable for alot of Europeans to think badly about americans, but I believe that the media more than the people from USA, carries the blame.

I haven't met alot of the cross-pond people in real life, but the few I've met have been polite and outgoing. I can't form an oppinion on the american people based on these few persons, just as I can't get any inkling as to what the general population is like by watching discovery channel.

I find it kind of odd that you said all that with a Jon Stewart avatar.

I see where you are coming from, but I like Jon Stewart for his humor. I don't watch comedy central for the news.

 

[Compatriot Block]

I...honestly don't know what to say. I feel offended, but I really wish that a lot of you guys actually had been to America for a while. You'd realize that the average person isn't any different than your average one.

Fat and stubby, retarded, and interested in nothing more but own country.

Fat, religious, stupid as fuck, but have strong morals and ideals (even if they're not the best ones)

Really? The media isn't an accurate representation. And whoever said that it was "delicious irony" that people can turn around and stereotype us while saying we're ignorant is right.

I think it's hilarious that most people call America ignorant of the world and then turn around and stereotype an entire nation.

Deliciously hilarious.

There you are.

 

[lwm3398]

I believe the average American to be a human being, and as being a human being, have faults.
But I wouldn't dare stereotype these faults throughout an entire community, let alone an entire country.
Me thinks this thread won't last long once the stereotyping and flame-wars start.
But who knows, people might remain civil and use common-sense, this is The Escapists after
all...

It's a shame that you were wrong:

I'm going to go with blindly patriotic, overweight, and dependent with a good taste for mediocre culture. But Americans are also stereotypically naive (in a cute way) and good-looking, so I guess it's not all bad.

Unflinchingly patriotic, hard working and borderline racist.

But that's pretty much to be expected.

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Rather i think of americans as a super power whos even sitting on top of the world for too long. Well times are changing and they are lowing their ego..

Americans will never lower there ego.........

no,we never will. you know why? because we've never lost a war,and fought through some of the worst wars in the last 500 years. revolutionary,1812,civil,WWI,WWII,korean,vietnam,gulf,and right now iraqi/afgan. i believe we're the best country in all history,but that's just because i'm quite a bit ignorant. i love my country. and that's that.

...The Iraq War is still going on.
Also, Vietnam wasn't exactly a win, was it?
Whatever. Someone has to love their country, and it's sure as hell not going to be me, so go for it.

vietnam and korea were losses (i admit it) but not "holy shit what did we get ourselves into?" loss. and i know iraq is still going on. thats why i put "and now" before it. also.

Awesome.

Leather jacket, sunglasses, performing an awesome guitar solo whilst riding a harley davidson...America is awesome.

if these both aren't sarcastic (i hope they aren't or else this makes me look stupid) they are completely true.

 

[MelziGurl]

The ones I meet in person are fantastic people. The ones I've come across on Xbox Live are tools bar a few. I'd have to visit America to have a better idea, but that's how it seems to go for me. I just stay away from the Xbox Live idiots.

 

[lwm3398]

The ones I meet in person are fantastic people. The ones I've come across on Xbox Live are tools bar a few. I'd have to visit America to have a better idea, but that's how it seems to go for me. I just stay away from the Xbox Live idiots.

don't rate americans by the asshole halo players.

 

[lwm3398]

America is a good place to live.

Except if you don't have health insurance. As a tangent, I always found it more than a little bit odd how the same people on the other side of the pond who speak out vehemently against abortion couldn't care less if people die because they can't pay for their medical care. Religious "morality" for the win! Oh - on that note - I'd also say being Atheist in the states probably sucks the big one as well.

Hey, I don't have health insurance. And it's still a pretty damn nice place to live, although I'm sure I'd feel differently if I got cancer or something -- but I'd never know that anyway, actually, since we probably couldn't afford an MRI!

And on the abortion versus poverty angle you take, well, as far as I know religious individuals are among the most charitable in this nation, and among the most charitable on this planet, so it's not as if they don't give a fuck about poor people. I guess they care more about babies than adults though, or it seems that way because since there's no action they can take, they have to politicize it (difficult to open soup kitchens for fetuses).

i'm religious,and i don't care about people in poverty because,in america at least, NO ONE SHOULD BE WITHOUT A JOB!!!!! as for poverty in places like india,africa,south america, and places without opportunity then we should give money to them. not lazy people who beilive the government will take care of them.