What is your state's/country's embarrassing stereotype?
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Manitoba - where the capital city (Winnipeg) is known as Winterpeg, or the murder capital of Canada. We're also known for our mosquitos.
... And BTO.
Haven't found anything too positive yet.
Edit: WAIT! We're also the Slurpee capital of the world! ... Except I've had maybe 2-3 slurpees in the last 15 years.
... And BTO.
Haven't found anything too positive yet.
Edit: WAIT! We're also the Slurpee capital of the world! ... Except I've had maybe 2-3 slurpees in the last 15 years.
Yeah, that guy's an idiot. Still I'm not sure if that really reflects as badly on Missouri as it does Republicans in general (a little of both probably.) I've been to Missouri and there are some frankly beautiful places to visit there. I'm from just to the left of you on the map.JimB said:
Kansas... even though we're in the center of the continental US, no one seems to have heard of us. The Wizard of Oz thing gets brought up a lot. TV gets us wrong a lot. According to Smallville there's a little town in Kansas that's somehow within easy driving distance of New York (Metropolis) either that or they could ALL fly. According to a road sign in Jericho's first episode, Jericho Kansas is where Ponca City Oklahoma is IRL. Oh and another *edit* (this is about the 4th one) according to Jericho you can see the Rockies from western Kansas (where they thought they put Jericho.) At the western border of Kansas you still have a hundred miles of Colorado to go through to get to the Rockies. Can't see 'em from here.
And the weirdest one... on 2 separate occasions someone visiting Kansas asked me if it was safe to go to Dodge City. Because (I guess) of the reputation it had as a tough town back in the 1880's. Sorry to disappoint, but Dodge City is really only a little town that smells of stockyard cow shit and the kill floor of a processing plant. Or as the locals say... "smells like money." Oh, and lots of folk make the mistake that Kansas City is actually in Kansas, where in reality only about a fifth (or so) actually is. The rest is all your's JimB.
Sorry dude, can't help ya. A lot of us here go to your state (or JimB's) on vacations and the like. And we may give Missouri a hard time, (they deserve it, they burned down one of our University towns a couple of times... kidding that was a long time ago and we can laugh about it now) I really have not heard anyone say anything bad about CO. Skiing, mountains, resorts... what's not to like. I even love catching the occasional Avalanche game. I got nothing to add as a stereotype. Can yall ski. We yall tawlk like this.Pebkio said:
Hungary: gypsies. the bad kind.
I really don't have a problem with gypsies, but it seems like we get all the rejects. Like all the well-mannered gypsies drop off their unwanted relatives here. it's ridiculous.
Also we have the typical paraszt stereotype, which is quite shameful
I really don't have a problem with gypsies, but it seems like we get all the rejects. Like all the well-mannered gypsies drop off their unwanted relatives here. it's ridiculous.
Also we have the typical paraszt stereotype, which is quite shameful
I'm from the Netherlands, and the common negative stereotype is a slightly overweight farmer who lives in a windmill, farms potatoes and wears blue baggy pants with suspenders, wooden shoes, digs dykes in his free time and potentially grows weed. that is not true. watch new kids turbo or something. that is the kind of person who should be a negative stereotype
England
Where to start?!? Xenophobia would be a good start; I'm not suggesting that every Englishman dislikes non-English people but there is still a sense of collective superiority floating around like a bad smell. That and we invented the phrase: "Johnny Foreigner"!
All Yorksire / Derbyshire people drink gravy, have whippets, wear flat-caps and work down t'pit; Southerners are all poncey and wouldn't know which end of a ferret to hold; Scousers are all thieves; Mancunians are all violent; Geordies are all rock-hard...I could go on.
All the above would be considered offensive in some countries but, most of the time, we see it as a bit of harmless fun and friendly rivalry....
Most of the time...
I could say something about Scottish people but I'm not brave enough to be anything other than complimentary!
Where to start?!? Xenophobia would be a good start; I'm not suggesting that every Englishman dislikes non-English people but there is still a sense of collective superiority floating around like a bad smell. That and we invented the phrase: "Johnny Foreigner"!
All Yorksire / Derbyshire people drink gravy, have whippets, wear flat-caps and work down t'pit; Southerners are all poncey and wouldn't know which end of a ferret to hold; Scousers are all thieves; Mancunians are all violent; Geordies are all rock-hard...I could go on.
All the above would be considered offensive in some countries but, most of the time, we see it as a bit of harmless fun and friendly rivalry....
Most of the time...
I could say something about Scottish people but I'm not brave enough to be anything other than complimentary!
I've lived in Edmonton all my life and sometimes it really is a dull, crime infested shithole. But yeah, not everyone in Alberta is uber conservative, but there is some truth, people did actually try to elect the Wildrose.ErwinGodfrey said:
Would be nice if people didn't think we're all uber conservative...
From Florida and i think the biggest one we have is that florida is made up of old jewish people from new york who can't vote properly and hispanics
UK: We don't have bad teeth and we don't all love the royals. The media just hype them up.
and on my French side: We're not cowards and France's record as far as wars go is a good one. It pisses me off and almost offends me when I hear people (especially English people) think that France didn't contribute to WWI. Ever heard of the Battle of Verdun? Basically the Battle of the Somme but solely for the French, but no one outside of France seems to remember it. French military deaths during the First World War were topped only by Germany's and Russia's and it seems hypocritical for British people to say things like that when they want to see their own war dead treated with unwavering respect. And no French person ever says "sacré bleu".
and on my French side: We're not cowards and France's record as far as wars go is a good one. It pisses me off and almost offends me when I hear people (especially English people) think that France didn't contribute to WWI. Ever heard of the Battle of Verdun? Basically the Battle of the Somme but solely for the French, but no one outside of France seems to remember it. French military deaths during the First World War were topped only by Germany's and Russia's and it seems hypocritical for British people to say things like that when they want to see their own war dead treated with unwavering respect. And no French person ever says "sacré bleu".
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.
Delaware: The state so boring we don't even have a stereotype.
Closest I can think of:
We're known for being really corporate-friendly (to the point that Delaware Corporation is a term, and over 50% of U.S. publicly traded corporations and 60% of the Fortune 500 companies are incorporated in that state), and we have no sales tax. But that's not really a stereotype.
Closest I can think of:
We're known for being really corporate-friendly (to the point that Delaware Corporation is a term, and over 50% of U.S. publicly traded corporations and 60% of the Fortune 500 companies are incorporated in that state), and we have no sales tax. But that's not really a stereotype.