What are your opinion of national stereotypes?
Being an American tourist kinda sucks, because everyone's kinda a smartass with you (in a good-natured way or not). So, yeah, American stereotypes are hardly flattering.
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What are your opinion of national stereotypes?
Being an American tourist kinda sucks, because everyone's kinda a smartass with you (in a good-natured way or not). So, yeah, American stereotypes are hardly flattering.
I think they're super accurate
What in God's name is wrong with American stereotypes, fatty? ^_^
The thing I probably find most incorrect and annoying about English or British stereotypes is the notion that we all talk like Liquid Snake. No one I know has a "british accent." And I suppose the sort of idea that we're upper class sipping our nice little cups of tea in our bowler hats. Its a bit of a :bou::bou::bou::bou: hole in reality.
Although us brits do talk about tha weather a lot. =D
EDIT: What the hell is with the smileys? haha
actually nowadays the British stereotype is more about chavs drinking themselves into a coma and eating fried mars barsQuote:
Originally Posted by Zero Hellfire
I'm happy with American stereotypes because I know I'm better than everyone else.
It's even worse when you live in a southern state. Obviously as a girl in the south I am an obese welfare queen living in a trailer with the confederate flag outside my window :|
Well, at least thats a little closer to the truth.Quote:
actually nowadays the British stereotype is more about chavs drinking themselves into a coma and eating fried mars bars
call 1 8 0 0 j e n n y c r a i gQuote:
obese welfare queen living in a trailer with the confederate flag outside my window
Stereotypes are true, because I live in New York and I am a fast-talking badass.
Except WNY doesn't actually count as New York.
Sadly there are a lot of people who do fit the stereotypes. You're just not likely to meet a lot of them. Especially in such a well bred internet forum such as this :} I actually work with a couple of American stereotypes. Thankfully they're the minority. They just get noticed a lot abroad I guess
Geordie stereotypes are fun, apparently we're all brown ale addicted, cold tolerant fat bastards with a liking for kebabs, gaan oot on the tap and knocking someone's heed off.
In reality, I'm mostly tea total, hardly drink unless i'm out, I can't take the cold because i'm so thin, I hate kebabs and well I hardly go out on the pull because I get jumped on. Every time. D:
So yeah, Tea sipping, cricket loving, buck toothed, queenie bashing, civilised gentlemen my arse XD
Maybe we should do, little brother. Or big brother, I'm not sure which. HELLFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEE!Quote:
Originally Posted by Zero Hellfire
See how much more fun it makes life?
Belgians and their inoffensiveness and bureaucracy :stare:
Also I'm not a big fan of the Azeris, with their oil and their "Oooh Baku is so great" and make up your mind whether you're Persian or Caucasian.
And don't even get me STARTED on the San Marinans. "Most Serene Republic of my Arse" is more like it. Think they're so fancy with their microstate with no debt and a budget surplus and oooh look at us we're too GOOD to join a REAL country like Italy. Berlusconi should invade.
I consumate with ovines daily, so there's nothing wrong with stereotypes here.
And what the hell Algarve? Why don't you even exist anymore? :stare:
What can you even say about St. Kitts and Nevis? Ooooh a couple of islands. Lovely. You're in the Pitcairn Island isolated pedophile club.
Right:
- We eat a lot of cheese
- We have tulips in the summer, everywhere
- We do have a lot of farmers, although far less than southern US states, and still decreasing.
Wrong:
- Dutch people don't go Dutch.
- We do NOT wear wooden clogs. We do drink beer out of them (well, students do).
- We are not dressed like people from the 1800's.
Hahahahahahahaha the smurfing Transnistria come back when you have independence
>implying you aren't dressed like a 1800 civilian in your FB profileQuote:
Originally Posted by Aerith's Knight
>implying you're not dutch
I have a Canadian flag on my neck. Everybody fears and respects me overseas.
Wait, am I going based off what every country thinks of me or what the rest of the US does? If it's the former then apparently I'm fat, love guns and... watch MTV? :confused: If it's the latter then I probably smoke weed, surf, and have a lifted truck.
I don't have a problem with national stereotypes. They're often true about a significant percentage of the population.
I don't say I'm from America; I say I'm from California or Los Angeles. America is too big to have many stereotypes that would be accurate for people across the country. The only one I can think of is that we're independent and/or self-centered.
And American. BTW you only think you are independent. That's why we hate y'all.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShlupQuack
I mean as individuals, not as a country. Like how in a lot of other countries you're expected to live at home until you're married or even after, but in America you're supposed to move out when you're 18.
The topic is lost on me but I don't disagree with that stereotype.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShlupQuack
You're still an American though :aimmad:
"Hey, you're Australian, so you must be a sniper, right?"
smurf YOU.
I hate that all New Englander sterotypes depict Massholes. I hate massholes.
I had to look that up. I was totally thinking it was someone so fat their mass caused a black hole. :|Quote:
Originally Posted by Bert
I <3 stereotypes. What would be the one for a Alaskan-native who claims California as a home state and lives in the Midwest?
That he is a terrible fraud and should be deported to French Canada.
CRIKEY MATES! HOW YA GOING, NEED ANOTHER BEER MATE? GORRR LOOK AT THAT THERE CROC, AIN'T SHE A BEAUTY MATE. I'LL THROW ANOTHER SHRIMP ON THE BARBIE FOR YOUR SHEILA MATE. AIN'T SHE A FINE PIECE OF ASS. OH G'DAY SKIPPY.
how about that boxing day test match
All out for under a hundred. Man I don't think anyone has sucked this bad. But I don't even watch cricket so I don't really care, you guys can have the ashes. I'll still pretend to be angry that you whipped our asses or something. The best team is gonna win and then Australia's going to be all butthurt and blame :bou::bou::bou::bou: and bitch and complain while the English gloat like mothersmurfers and I'm just going to be sitting in my relaxing chair having a couple drinks not giving a :bou::bou::bou::bou:. Because that's how I roll.
Yeah...but at least we drink our beer cold. You sick smurfs.
pretty sure everybody everywhere does this. It reminds me of something my old History teacher said. He and some other students went to visit Russia during the Cold War to see other students there, and the Russians were absolutely convinced Britain was filled with workhouses where the poor were sent to prison for being, well, poor. Britain hadn't had these for well over a hundred years. It was just propaganda to convince them the USSR's silly commie ideals were kickin' rad. Likewise, I think this cold beer thing is propaganda to make you Australians feel better about being inferior to all other nations (besides the French, naturally) at all things.Quote:
Originally Posted by eternal essence
Stereotypes are usually based in truth. Tea drinkers with bad teeth? That's us! Warm beer? What the smurf are you darned convicts on about? :confused:
On second that, that sounds like the best place ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jiro
Me too. I only tell people I'm from New York. It's amazing to see how the expressions on people faces in the UK, when faced with my American accent, became much more pleasant when I said I was from New York.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShlupQuack
xDQuote:
Originally Posted by NorthernChaosGodI had to look that up. I was totally thinking it was someone so fat their mass caused a black hole. :|Quote:
Originally Posted by Bert
Massholes = people from Massachusetts
People from the mid west are flatlanders :D
:( Can I just go be un-American overseas?Quote:
Originally Posted by ShlupQuack
I've heard for years that you people complain that we drink our beer too cold. I had just assumed you drank it less cold.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychotic
I think they're referencing the fact that they cannot comprehend the joys of real ale :manus:
Would take a warm English beer over a cold bottle of whatever gutter filth the convicts are currently throwing down their necks tbh, easily the makers of the worst beer in the world.
As vile as Aussie beer is (And it truly is), nothing can compare with the sheer horrific despicable filth that passes for beer in America. Funnily, I like a couple of American beers when they are brewed in Europe, but the ones actually made in the US? Beyond dire.
So there's one: Americans have :bou::bou::bou::bou: beer.
You're :bou::bou::bou::bou: beer. :mad2:
I love the Irish stereotype because it's about 90% based in truth, especially any part of said stereotype relating to alcohol lol Although this "top of the mornin too ya" accent is only found in Cork but I've never heard an actual Irish person say "top of the mornin to ya" with any degree of seriousness. I am partial to telling the odd leprechaun story to dumba$$ tourist because it's amazing how many actually believe you!
I hate being an American. All the stereotypes are true. :[ Not necessarily about me, but for other people... God, it's true! D:
EDIT: Also, I'm afraid that everyone will hate me when I take my leave to Ireland. :'3
There's another American stereotype: WHAT THE HELL IS SO AWESOME ABOUT BEING 1/18th IRISH THAT YOU SIMPLY MUST TELL EVERYONE ABOUT IT. I'm sure I'm Irish somewhere down the line, but I don't see why I should rejoice in sharing blood with a bunch of 3ft horse jockeys :mad2:
I guess it's kinda like how Americans tell everyone everyone how their great-great-grandfather was a native, except with less guilt involvedQuote:
Originally Posted by Old Manus
As someone who isn't at all removed from Ireland in terms of heritage I can assure you that being Irish is totally pimp and fantastic. :hux:
Y'all just jelly.
I was born in Utah and live in Arizona, so I'm obviously a gun-toting anti-immigration racist conservative Mormon.
Hi! I am Sven Henrik the Chair! I sing ven I talk and I like very many tings but mostly gay rights and ABBA and meatballs. Hav a gud dej! :)
I drink warm beer because I don't feel like putting it in the fridge when it tastes nasty even when its cold. All beer tastes nasty. So the fact that warm beer is nasty is a moot point to me. I drink it for a slight buzz. Nothing to do with the taste in either regard. And yes I've had cold beer. It doesn't taste any better. At all. All varieties. Black, white, regular. Ale and lager don't taste any better. In fact the darker it is the worse it is
Truth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vyk
Too bad as an Australian, I'm expected to be drinking it for breakfast. I don't throw shrimp on barbies either..... I call them prawns :|
I do, admittedly, say g'day.
What are you two, twelve? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tai-TiTruth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vyk
Also, foreigners actually seem to have it in their simple heads that we actually drink that vile piss water known as Fosters, but in my experience the only people who touch the stuff are poms who have migrated over.
Not that this is a stereotype but I hear our money is more waterproof but havent seen any hard evidence. I think Ive left a few $5 notes in my pockets when I put my pants in the wash which come out fine. If it is true Its something nicer to brag about rather than cold beer.
Being from North West England I should probably just leave now; the assumptions of us is that we'll steal, drink, swear and are basically like the families in Shameless. That and we're all scousers from Liverpool.
"... St Helens, Northwest England.."
"Oh, so you're a scouser?"
"No.. DID I SAY LIVERPOOL"
I'm from Tennessee so I'm either a) A gangsta or b)A gun-toting uber-America redneck.
I'm from Ireland so I am a little partial to some of the stereotype of drinking. I am very partial to alcohol (ask Shattered Dreams for details) but I am against the stereotype that all Irish are drunk and do feck all else. In fairness I am an MSc in Analytical Chemistry and I am currently applying to do a PhD so I would consider myself relatively intelligent. Also the amount of Irish immigrant in the US means that by probability that almost 93% of americans have some Irish blood. Bu that does not give you the right to claim "I'm Irish". I postulate that to be Irish yo must be born in Ireland with at least 5 generations of Irish blood or born abroad with 8 or more generations of Irish blood. But I'll acept a drink from anyone so.........who's round is it?!
I wouldn't worry about Ireland Naomi! Buy and large we love American us Irish even when we say we don't :bigsmile:Quote:
Originally Posted by Naomi The Insane
I must agree Matt. But is it because of our amicable nature or that we have successfully invaded every country on the planet?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shattered Dreamer