What we don't know about your country

[Symplify]

Alot of Americans won't touch a gun, drink, or shout insults about other people's ethnicity. Alot of the American stereotypes I hear sound like they actually came from the Confederate States of America, which doesn't exist anymore. Weird thing is, these days alot of those stereotypes seem to fit the northern states better than the southern.

Many people wish the Confederacy still existed, however. And it's those people who create the stereotypes. Contrary to popular belief, not all of the US is full of retards. Up here in the North we're pretty reasonable. But that might be because I'm British/Swedish, and not American.

 

[Lowbreed]

Switzerland:
We're not Sweden, we don't only eat cheese and chocolate, don't all own an 'alphorn' or go yodelling in the mountains. We have a Bundesrat and not a president or prime minister.

We have euthanasia!

 

[luna_moth]

In Oregon it's legal to smoke weed at your house, but not buy or sell it. Fun fact

 

[Log Lady]

America:

1) It's really freaking big, and there are a lot of different people in it.

2) REAL American beer comes from microbrews, and it is delicious.

3) The Republicans are a minority party. They only used to win b/c they'd cornered the religious vote using abortion, which freed them up to ignore social programs thereby lowering taxes. US politics doesn't reflect any sort of majority ideology.

 

[Pepepipipopo]

Brazil:
Where not all playing soccer danzing samba and there is not a 24/7 band plating generic tropical music ... also there aren't monkeys in most cities ... Also... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Santos-Dumont
Hell Yeah!

 

[Symplify]

Igotaname13, you should come up to the north. Many if not most of us are atheist deep down, and those who aren't are mutually respecting.

 

[mr-fix_it]

Sweden.
We all love making fun of our king.
We say 'thank you' a lot.
We don't wear shoes indoors.
On the bus, two complete strangers won't sit next to each other unless there are no other seats empty. We enjoy our personal space.
We tend to be forgiving towards foreigners who have trouble with our language.
Between 6th and 10th grade it is compulsory to read a third language (besides Sw and En); German, French or Spanish. I took French, and lately I have also studied Italian and Japanese.


We're generally a bit taller and a bit paler than the rest of the world.
The ladies are -not- always blonde, though it is TRUE that we're usually unnecessarily humble and a bit uptight.

I'm from Norway. We love making fun of your king too
But generally, all of this can be applied to Norwegians.

another swed here im here to say that we sweds have a entire genre of jokes about you guys
and thats our army is a joke(they have been hawling the funds for 10 years now wonder whats left). we let in ALOT of immigrants in sweden (Södertälje a suburb of stockholm let in more immigrants from irak then USA and Canada togehter)

 

[Agent Larkin]

Anyway Ireland. I would love to start but there is too much to just pick so the basics.
1 We dont sound like we are from some crappy film from the 50's
2 We have the most complicated age of consent laws in the world
3 We dont all drink Guinness as it is horrible.
4 If you mention the British everyone has a different opinion.
5 Dont mention the civil war.
6 Dont mention the failed rebellions apart from 1798
7 We dont have leprechauns. We killed and ate all of them ages ago
8 Any further questions?
9 We all really hate tourists.
10 Our economy is so doomed we might get kicked out of the EU.

3 Despite popular belief some of us don't drink alcohol at all.
4 True, but in my experience the only difference of opinion is on just how much we hate them.

And to all English people, those six county's in the north, despite your collective arrogance ARE NOT PART OF YOUR COUNTRY.

THEY ARE ALSO NOT PART OF OURS (Not in a geographical but Political/cultural sense obviously). If anything northern Ireland is a country within its own rights. And not everyone hates the British thank you.

 

[ShoryukenDude]

4. Canada is the second-largest country by size, but has a small population density. Most people live within a short distance of America.

When the war comes one day it will be easy to find you all.

The last time we fucked with Canada they burned down the white house.

Here in Ohio, It's illegal to go whaling on Sundays. Which brings up so many different questions.

 

[Cuniculus]

In America, we hate other Americans more then any other collective group of people on the planet.

And even more, most like other countries. Why? Because you wouldn't have been dumb enough to elect Bush, or enact all the laws he did. That and you're women.

To the Bush comment, I'd have to say simply: Yes. We're so stupid, we elected him TWICE. Whoo! Go USA!

To the other: Yes as well. At least half of us are indeed women. Most of the mothers in the US are women, in fact.

 

[Randomologist]

Most folks outside of Europe don't really know my country exists
Wales sort of merged with England in 1485, but remains a principality with its own government.

 

[Mullahgrrl]

Sweden don't have an oficially accepted national anthem. we have a traditional one we use and one royal that we don't but bacicly it can be any song we feel like.

On one ocurrence after a game in Moscow where a swedish team had won they couldn't find a recording of the traditional anthem and nobody could play it on the piano they had so the team sang helan går wich is a popular (or at least prolific) swedish drinking song.

The only national anthem that actually mentions Sweden is the polish one.

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

In America, you can get candy at any store. Ever.

 

[Andraste]

The American South East isn't all Inbred and Slack-Jawed, Just Mississippi and Arkansas

I beg to differ

I've been to Florida (Jacksonville, Miami's OK) and Louisiana (New Orleans and Baton Rouge) and you will have to add those two states to your list at least. Maybe because I'm from Nor Cal but any state where people still proudly display confederate flags is redneck to me.

North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas

Just to name them ALL, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM! SLACK JAWED IDIOTS THAT HATE ATHEIST BECAUSE FAMILY GUY DISLIKED BRIAN FOR BEING ONE, AND THEY ALSO FOLLOW BILL O' REILLY

Alright now, you're treading on very dangerous ground. You do realize this website was founded and is based in North Carolina, yes? We are very clearly not inbred, nor slack-jawed, but rather intelligent, thoughtful sorts.

Also:

-NC is among the top producers of apples, christmas trees and peanuts in the nation.
-After New York City, Charlotte, NC is the largest finance center in the US.
-NC is home to part of one of the oldest, if not the oldest, mountain ranges in the world, the Appalachians.
-Speaking of the Appalachians, a large percentage of the people who live there are of Scotish heritage, and in fact some of the accents from the NC mountains belie that fact.
-My hometown, Cary, NC, is sister city to County Meath in Ireland.
-If you've ever seen "Bull Durham" (arguably, the best sports movie of all time) then you've seen the hometown of The Escapist. The movie was filmed largely in Durham, NC and is based on the Durham Bulls baseball team.
-Yes, there are rednecks here, just like they are all over the world - we do not corner the market on rednecks in the south. And the way to tell a Real redneck, is call them one - they'll thank you.

 

[Aqualung]

Canada wasn't actually a multicultural country until maybe the sixties, or later. In fact, during WW2, we had Japanese immigrants sent to camps in Canada, and siezed their land and possessions.

But now we're cool.

 

[Ph0t0n1c Ph34r]

I find this painfully obvious, but America is full of the most racist bastards on the planet. not all of us are, but I don't think other countries have cults devoted to being racist (KKK)

Yeah...

Man, no wonder so many countries think we suck.

And that's how we elected a black president. Just can't win can we?

 

[neoman10]

We named the Molotov Coctail, expanded for the glory of Finland.

As the Russians were bombing our capital, Helsinki, minister Molotov of Russia told in various interviews and communiques that they are simply dropping bread to the hungry, oppressed workers of Finland. Hence the russian bombs gained the nickname Molotov's Bread.

Now, since us Finnish are nice people with sense of propriety and hospitality, naturally we had to repay this kindness showed to us by minister Molotov. So, since Molotov gifted the bread, we had to gift the drink. It was delivered in large quantities to the Russian troops, coming to liberate us and lead us to a new age of prosperity, by offering their tank crew stout drinks as thanks.

Hence, Molotov's Coctail.

yay Finland woooooo

(I just moved here and everyone knows a bout the US, ummmmmmmm go Caps!)