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

[lacktheknack]

Alberta, Canada. We're Canadian Texas.

Other than people on the East Coast often picturing us as... well, Texans, there's nothing really spectacular about us in terms of stereotypes.

(For the record, we don't look or act like stereotypical Texans.)

 

[lacktheknack]

I'm from Michigan, but that is not why I'm here.

No, that is because of the stereotype of Detroit. You see people think that if you go to Detroit you will get shot/stabbed/robbed/assualted in some way. Well to all of you let me say this, this past summer there were 2 days that passed without an assault.

So suck it, that is 48 whole hours of assault-less bliss baby.

Whooooooooooaaaaaaaaaa. I'm not sure if I'm impressed or mega-impressed.

 

[CMDDarkblade]

What most people don't know is that Southern California and Northern California secretly hate each other. I'm from Orange County and I wouldn't mind if San Francisco burnt to the ground. God, I hate that city so much.

How do you feel about San Jose?

Never been there, so I can't really say. But if it's heavily influenced by San Francisco culture then I probably wouldn't like it.

 

[Wen-Chiao O'Boyle]

New Jersey

Despite the fact that the cast of the infamous television show was from Long Island, we still deal with a lot of flack over it.

 

[Kae]

México here, can't really say any state in particular since I've moved too many times and haven't staid in any particular state enough to call it home or get to know people, specially since I don't really talk to people a lot.

But anyway the general stereotype of México is that it's a really big desert with a bunch of really small towns with unpaved roads, also apparently we all still dress like we did in 1910, with sombreros and boots, in fact I think people think it's the wild west, which is odd because as I said I've seen most of México and for the most part it's really green, though here up North there is a lot of desert.

Don't forget that everybody in Mexico drinks tequila and eats tortilla chips, and the national sport is cockfighting...

Well, my family brews Tequila, and I'm pretty much the only person I know that doesn't, so as far as I know that one is true, and cockfighting, well I've never seen it but I did have a chicken that was pretty aggressive and fought dogs, so I guess I've done it.

 

[Xifel]

Still, does Swedish really sound like the Swedish Chef to non-swedes? =P
Cuz it's not even close to real Swedish, like what you wrote (putta der chicken inna der potten), in real Swedish that would be "lägg kycklingen i kastrullen" (Put the chicken in the pot). No the (or der) in Swedish, that's added in the end of the word, En Kyckling (one chicken), kycklingen (the chicken) =P

Swedish grammar class dismissed

I don't think it really does. Although the only time I've really heard Swedish spoken is watching the Dragon Tattoo movie with subtitles. It just sounded like a European language I couldn't identify because I don't recognize any of the words. Well and listening to Movits! where I'm starting to recognize a few more words (not understand yet, but recognize.) But even with that some of it is spoken so fast I really can't recognize it. I just really dig the mixture of swing and r&b. And the cadence of the spoken/sung lyrics is really kind of hypnotic. And I don't think that really sounds like the Swedish chef either.

Just wanted to point out that Movitz! got a pretty hard regional Swedish accent which sounds pretty funny to us as well. Although awesome music, and I pretty surprised that anyone has heard of them outside of Sweden. I saw them last year in a tiny student pub here.

OT:
Sweden: A socialist utopia/hell-hole depending on who you ask. Blond, attractive women and internet pirates are the most common stereotypes. And we are pretty "closed" and do not like to talk to new people.

Since this thread is doing pretty well I going to break it down into regions of my home country as well

Småland (eng literally: Small-land)
The people from my region are supposed to be extremely cheap, and hold on to their money to death. We also had one of the nations major uprisings, and can sometimes still be seen as discontent farmers and hillbillies with a horrible accent, which is true (we do not pronounce "r").

 

[Harkonnen64]

Originally from Texas but moved when I was 6, so I don't really consider myself a Texan. Here in Missouri a lot of lower-income people are assumed to be meth-heads. Missouri held the meth-capital-of-america title for 4 years straight until those bastard Tennesseans stole our title!

 

[DeltaEdge]

I'm from Michigan, and I guess I would just mention Detroit. Nuff' said.

 

[viranimus]

Why?

Uhhhm. If someone says something like that with no hint of humor or irony, you usually wont want further prodding. However, given as its not exactly a secret around these parts, Ill simply redirect you here.

Overview

Further elaboration

And let you figure the rest.

 

[corvuscorrax]

Easily the mormons.

Many seem to think that they run the whole state but we have our mixes of all types like any other state.

 

[The Pumpkin Witch]

Easily the mormons.

Many seem to think that they run the whole state but we have our mixes of all types like any other state.

Are you from Utah, then?

 

[Jarsh82]

I currently live in Iowa. Everyone seems shocked that we would be one of the first states in the nation to legally recognize same sex marriage. This despite the fact that we were the first state in the nation to criminalize school segregation 85 years before the rest of the nation.

 

[Vanitas likes Bubbles]

Well in Australia, you're either a beer guzzling, mullet wearing bogan or a perfect blonde haired beach babe. Largely inaccurate for the most part.

 

[Strazdas]

10 years ago, whneever i said Lithuania the response was "ah, soviet union".
Now due to oru massive emigration to western europe and USA this view has changed into another.
"Ah, that russian speaking guy who always brings vodka and robs you afterwards".
So yeah, id rather take Soviet Union.

[qutoe]Hungary: gypsies. the bad kind.[/quote]
There is a good kind of gipsies? at least the ones living wherei can see are all either durg additcs or thieves. and itsn ot steretypical, all of the local ones are. thier houses were detryed by goverment 3 times nad they rebuild in a day and still sit in city center on drugs.

 

[karcentric]

Bogans... lots and lots of bogans.

Western Australia!

 

[Angie7F]

Japan.
We all wear suits, glasses and bow. Get our R and Ls mixed up.

We like anime and manga and we are all introverted perverted weirdos.

Really? I thought you were all ninjas/samurai who routinely repel incursions by Godzilla, and will commit ritual suicide if you do something dishonorable

But seriously, Japan has earned its reputation for being weird and full of perverts. The penis festival alone is scary.

That too.
Now we do this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cUi6bsMTxA

 

[Shock and Awe]

I'm from Georgia, from what I've gathered were basically a bunch of rednecks but not quite as bad as the rednecks to our west.

 

[Suijen]

California. Apparently we're liberal,communist,godless,sodomizing hippies.




Seems about right.