What is your state's/country's embarrassing stereotype?

[Ryotknife]

New York:

That we're all from NYC. It's frankly really annoying.

to be fair.....NYC does compromise almost 50% of NY state population. which is also why the politicians can rob the rest of NY state in order to fund NYC because...well....F NY state they dont need it as long as they have NYC. I think NY state is the last remaining Fiefdom in the world.......

There are more deer (in NY state) than people in the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany (state cap) combined.

cant wait for the day in which NY state is released from the tyranny of New York City.

As for embarrassing stereotypes for NY....hmm..

Terrible drivers, mean people, Fanatically politically correct. And that is mostly true.

 

[Dags90]

Well, if those things are considered rude, then of course I have "rude" people here too. Although its more of a an unspoken rule - I'm going from A to B, so don't make my trip any longer than it has to be.

I don't want to seem like a stalker, but are you familiar with a grassy hill called Veteran's Field and the handful of stores and food vendors near it (Kmart, Burger King, Apple Bee's)? I think you might live not too far off from me.

Right. Personally, whenever I travel out west it always creeps me out. It's ingrained in me to consider a stranger taking interest in you a red flag, even something as shallow as small talk.

Can't say I'm familiar with that area.

 

[mrhappy1489]

I live in Queensland, Australia, specifically Ipswich, a city considered to be the Bogan capital of Australia. The problem with this statement, is that there aren't even that many bogans any more, most of them have moved on to other places, not sure where but I think Logan has become their new home. It sucks because the persistent image of Ipswich Civilians as backwards hicks is growing pretty stale and it's frustrating that some people seriously are dumb enough to believe that all us Ipswichians are dumb, backwards hicks. I will say we're not helped by the small vocal population of idiots.

 

[chadachada123]

I'm not sure Ohio really has stereotype. Michiganders hate it but they're Michiganders, no one cares what they think
(cue U of M Ohio State war)

Seriously, though I don't actually know. We're an indecisive swing state? I've got nothing.

I don't see the point of any "war," since it's obvious that U of M is far superior to Ohio State in pretty much every way.

As for the OP, Michigan loves hockey and is known pretty much only for Detroit, one of the biggest crime-ridden dumps in all of the US, but only 1/10 of our population.

 

[Goofguy]

Not necessarily a stereotype but the Canadian media always likes to pander to our apparent inferiority complex. It's not hard to find an article about how a Canadian was involved or linked to something not necessarily newsworthy very indirectly.

In the lead-up to the Prince William's wedding last year, there were some ridiculous articles about Kate's link to Canada which turned out to be one of her grandfathers was out in the Canadian Prairies during WWII, training some pilots for a few months. Then of course, you'll get from time to time an article about how a Canadian was part of a team of 50 who found a cure for stubbed toes or some shit.

It's really bizarre and kind of embarrassing.

 

[mrhappy1489]

I'm from wales, and apparently living here makes me a sheep shagger, which is why i mask my accent when i use public chat in games.

Hey you should be friends with the Kiwi's then, because you both love rugby and shagging sheep.

 

[mrhappy1489]

Not necessarily a stereotype but the Canadian media always likes to pander to our apparent inferiority complex. It's not hard to find an article about how a Canadian was involved or linked to something not necessarily newsworthy very indirectly.

In the lead-up to the Prince William's wedding last year, there were some ridiculous articles about Kate's link to Canada which turned out to be one of her grandfathers was out in the Canadian Prairies during WWII, training some pilots for a few months. Then of course, you'll get from time to time an article about how a Canadian was part of a team of 50 who found a cure for stubbed toes or some shit.

It's really bizarre and kind of embarrassing.

Not much different when you compare it to Australia. Even if it is only the barest of tangential connections we'll find a way to take some credit for it. I remember watching TV once and this pommy girl one the Junior Wimbledon cup or something, and it turns out she lived in Australia for like 1, 1 1/2 years and some Journalist goes off on some random segue about how she feels about us, ignoring the fact she new basically nothing about the country. So I get what your saying.

 

[Varun Garuda Maharaj]

Trinidad & Tobago: Most of the time in everyone's business, Will do anything for a holiday, Always finding a loophole in SOME system. EDIT: people from other countries asking what part of jamaica that is.

 

[mrhappy1489]

Hmm us Kiwis are stereotypically looked at as being really nice, awesome people in general. In addition to being sheep farmers. Seriously only one of my friends actually has any sheep.

As an Australian I can think of many stereotypes, but in true Australian fashion I'll overlook these things and complement you on your accepting and easy going nature. Seriously the nicest dude at my work is a Kiwi, plus one of my favourite Aunts is Waikato.

 

[Nerexor]

Oregon here. I think the majority of the stereotypes revolve around Portland, in that we're a bunch of bike loving, underemployed, 20 something hippies.

Basically, Portlandia...

Also, it rains a lot

I went to Oregon on vacation and I admit I saw some very interesting fashions in Portland, but I had an awesome time there. Your state rocks as far as I'm concerned.

I'm from Ottawa so I guess the stereotype is that everyone is a government drone? In addition to the usual Canadian stereotyping that we apologize for things that are in no way our fault, are unfailingly polite, and hate to be confused with our southern neighbors.

 

[bandman232]

I'm not sure Ohio really has stereotype. Michiganders hate it but they're Michiganders, no one cares what they think
(cue U of M Ohio State war)

Seriously, though I don't actually know. We're an indecisive swing state? I've got nothing.

GO BUCKS, MICHIGAN SUCKS! Ahem...

OT: I'm not really sure what to make of Ohio. I life in the Toledo area, so a good number of the people are fairly liberal, but if you go into the more rural towns, say like Genoa or Delta, it's fairly Conservative. I guess all I can say is we have Toledo, the shittiest town I've ever lived in.

I was born and lived in Nevada for most of my life, and it seems the outside impression is that we spend every waking moment in a casino and that everyone lives in Vegas. Not true, I am from Reno, which is a decently sized city, but it's not too big. Slightly bigger than Toledo probably. But I suggest if you decide to go to Nevada, go to Reno. The casinos don't try to price gouge you and there are more things to do other than gambling, like skiing or going to lake Tahoe. Plus, the people in Reno are really nice.

 

[Neuromancer]

It would seem to me that the prevailing Greek stereotype these days is that we are lazy/job-less/liars-of-great-reknown, and that we planned for the the Euro to collapse because why not?

At least, that much has caught my eye, as I often find myself occupied with much more interesting activities. Is there anything else to add?

 

[Gagballs The Great]

I'm from Moher Russia (Moscow) so you know the list.
-Everyone is comunist.
-Vodka all the way.
-Snow...always and everywhere.
-We are the bad guys, always.
-We want to take over the world and drown it in vodka.
-We ride bears.
-We are rich snobs. (Moscow stereotype)
The list goes on.

 

[QuartzQuadreant]

It's probably been said, but we British (I say British because the stereotype seems to apply to Britain rather than just England despite the whole 'different countries' thing) all have terrible teeth.

I can confirm that while I seem to tick every English stereotypical box, I do not have bad teeth.

I'd also like to add that I quite like stereotypes. Humans like to categorise and compartmentalise, and I'm nothing if not conformist. Stereotypes need to have come from somewhere, after all.

 

[The Tibballs]

The big one for Tasmania the little island state just to the south of Australia's mainland, is we're all inbred and have two heads from genetic fuck ups.

It comes from the fact that back in the day Tasmanian's could marry their first cousins, but that was only the case because there where so few families here at the time, hell there are still only just over 500,000 people living in our state right now, there are bigger suburbs in Victoria/New South Wales. :/

 

[tmande2nd]

Living in Manitoba I am assumed to be:
A French/Metis/Ukranian descended person obsessed with beer and hockey.

I am in fact English/German hate beer, and dont watch Hockey.

 

[Bloodtrozorx]

Hmmm Big fat bearded white man from Maryland. American stereotype ahoy! I honestly don't know if Maryland has a stereotype...Anyone know any?

 

[IamLEAM1983]

To be fair, Quebec has two stereotypes floating around. One is the aforementioned freeloading French-Canadian separatist, the other is the slightly snobby Anglo who can't be bothered to speak a lick of French even if he understands the language.

There's more interesting stuff if you dissect Montreal's greater metropolitan area. The Plateau Mont-Royal is where the province's artistic and intellectual elite reportedly resides, so we get a lot of stereotypes of excessively posh pseudo-intellectuals who fawn about superficially "knowing" some local celeb or another. The English-speaking side of the fence has Westmount, where everyone listens to Q92 and absolutely nobody knows how to properly park a car.

Then there's my neck of the woods, Brossard, and how we're supposedly a hundred percent Chinese and Pakistani in composition.

 

[Fiad]

Nebraska: Contrary to popular belief, we do have indoor plumbing and do not ride horses everywhere.

Really, I have talked to a bunch of people from the coasts who apparently think we are all Amish or something.

 

[TheOneBearded]

Well, if those things are considered rude, then of course I have "rude" people here too. Although its more of a an unspoken rule - I'm going from A to B, so don't make my trip any longer than it has to be.

I don't want to seem like a stalker, but are you familiar with a grassy hill called Veteran's Field and the handful of stores and food vendors near it (Kmart, Burger King, Apple Bee's)? I think you might live not too far off from me.

Right. Personally, whenever I travel out west it always creeps me out. It's ingrained in me to consider a stranger taking interest in you a red flag, even something as shallow as small talk.

It's like the first two Hostel movies and Taken. Right after you get off the plane, some suave, handsome gentleman/ slutty chick will start taking to you. Maybe invite you to a party in this abandoned warehouse.......in this abandoned town.........in the middle of nowhere. Then,BOOM!, you are some crack addicted butt monkey being auctioned off to the highest bidder. Or killed, probably killed.