How is your Country Displayed

[open trap]

Fat and douchy, yay america

 

[Nocturnal Gentleman]

I don't think I need to go into the American stereotypes. Everybody else covered that pretty well.
State-wise I'm a Marylander. We're known as...for...who am I kidding? No one cares. I do find it interesting though that many southern people call us northeners when technically we're part of the south too. Just Lincon didn't screw around and forced us to stay in the union. When most people think Maryland they think Washinngton D.C. with the white house and everything. Too bad that's in Maryland but isn't part of us. I guess "the suffering" counts.

I'm also a Virginian(my home state). We're known for being the first state and for that godawful Pocahontas movie. We're also known as the state for lovers I think? I guess there's nothing better for love than vineyards and alpacas. Our cousin state West Virginia is known for being full of hillbillies that love incest.

oregon- where is that? the mid west?

Hey! You forgot all the eco terrorists and that everyone who originally traveled to your state had at least one family member die of dysentery.

 

[NJ]

Given everyone nailed the USA stereotype, might as well follow the lead of others and go indepth state wise.

Manhattan, NY - USA...

Corrupt cops, models, being able to plot a route from Battery Park to Dyckman Ave during rush hour on the top of your head but not being able to pinpoint Nebraska on the map, so many foreigners that none of your friends share the same nationality, cabbies can out-drive the Stig and Naw Yawk accents.

*frown*

 

[SadakoMoose]

The US tends to come off the wrong way to foreign countries because of who our political leaders are.
Most Americans are actually decent enough people, and if there was no Fox News, would be centre-left.
Like Captain America.
He may look like a patriotic mess, but he IS a product of the Roosevelt Administration.
The MSER (Mad Scientist Employment Reconstruction) Program.
After WW1, Wilson scaled back our doomsday weapons budget and put a lot of mad scientists out of jobs. Coolidge didn't help...

 

[Littlee300]

Ireland.

Need I say more?

That depends... are you sober enough to say more?



OT: Australia... ummm... something with beer and boomerangs.

Don't forget your army of kangeroos and you seem like the most likely to survive WW3.

 

[Littlee300]

I'm from New Zealand. When was the last the a New Zealander was portrayed in a film or TV show?

Ever seen Yes Man?

OT: Everyone knows that Australian men are vulgar, racist, alcoholic layabouts. We spend all our free time either riding, wrestling and/or fleeing the native wildlife, and have wives that look like semi-trailers.

As for you Canadians... you're pretty much the Kiwis of North America.

I thought you guys were all chill and relaxed...

 

[bulbasaur765]

yep. Guess it wasn't that hard, was it?

 

[Something Amyss]

Vermont is the far left socialist state.

And we will NOT apologise for our cheese!

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

I am from Russia. We wear ushankas, try to invade everyone, have no regard for human life and drink a lot.

Those are, of course, largely untrue. Except for drinking. That is a pretty common problem.

 

[Yossarian1507]

The Historical examples you're giving are from the area we know today as Poland, I don't believe that it was called Poland back then, or was even a country... I thought Modern-day Poland was created after WWI to BE a "buffer zone" between Soviet Russia and the rest of Europe... AP EUROPEAN HISTORY LIED TO ME!!! (...) I'm not insulting Poland, I'm stating that your arguments are false.

What, what, what, WHAT?!

OBJECTION!

I don't even know where did you got that info. Poland as a country officially exists since 966 AD, after Mieszko I, the first ruler of Poland was baptized, and it became a kingdom with it's next ruler, and the first king - Bolesław Chrobry. It lived for better or worse for several centuries, and most of the history facts mentioned by my fellow Pole (Copernicus, beating the Turks at Vienna, etc.) were done by people from the Kingdom of Poland, thank you very much. And those which came during the Age of Particions, were still performed by the Poles, even if they didn't have their own land.

Poland lost their lands in 1795 when Prussia, Russia and Austria took it away, but that didn't mean, Pole's were gone. Oh no, we were still there, and fought for our land, really hard (two major uprisings in 1830, and 1863).

Your "buffer zone" statement is also false. That was the propaganda of the fascist nations, and they said the same thing about Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, etc. The truth is, while Entente approved the idea of recreating Polish country (but they wouldn't even think about it if Roman Dmowski and Ignacy Paderewski wouldn't fight politically for it), it was WE who took our own lands by force in 1918 from Prussia, Austria, Russia, and also Ukraine (Lviv). If the entire Entente just said 'no' to our efforts, we would still had our lands back, thanks to our troops (also, if we would just sit on our asses and wait for Entente's move, we would probably be left with only Warsaw and terrains nearby).

I dunno, how much you Americans learn about Poland, but I assume very little. We only learn about the US Declaration of Independency, and briefly about US war with Brits, and WWII maniacs also teach about their involvement in the conflict, so I take, you don't really learn much about one specific country on one specific continent. I understand that, and I'm not going to call anyone idiot for that. But for Christ sake, check out your facts next time. Also, if someone from other country tells you something about the history of it, you should probably believe him, as he's learning it since primary school. In my case, I'm also a son of two history teachers, so you can bet the paragraphs above are true, I consulted it all with my mom.

Sorry, if it sounded a bit angry, it wasn't supposed to. Also, thanks. I was extremely sleepy (I woke up at 5AM), and your post woke me up perfectly

 

[Dimensional Vortex]

I'm an Australian, I guess we are stereotyped like Steve Irwin saying "Crikey" all the time, or that we have koala's in our back yard, or we ride a kangaroo to work. Also I think when a movie is trying to show that a character is Australian, in most situations they will give him the most refined, purest, quintessential Australian accent and when I hear this I feel ashamed.

 

[nin_ninja]

The Historical examples you're giving are from the area we know today as Poland, I don't believe that it was called Poland back then, or was even a country... I thought Modern-day Poland was created after WWI to BE a "buffer zone" between Soviet Russia and the rest of Europe... AP EUROPEAN HISTORY LIED TO ME!!! (...) I'm not insulting Poland, I'm stating that your arguments are false.

What, what, what, WHAT?!

OBJECTION!

SNIP

Well, I'm from Canada and the American and Canadian school system don't teach us much about Eastern-European countries at ALL, unless we take a world's history class. Hell America avoids the War of 1812 where we burned down their White House twice, and we avoid a lot of the things settlers did to the natives here.

 

[Death God]

In Washington? Nothing much special happens. Other than people think we eat a LOT of seafood when we actually don't eat that much. You get sick of it really easily. In the U.S.A.? Fat slobs who are too prideful and ignorant. I don't personally think that but I have to admit, there are some FAT americans over here.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I don't know if there are any sterotypes for Pennsylvania in particular, so I'm gonna go with the American sterotype of the bombastic nationalist.

(Doesn't stop me from loving Axis Powers Hetalia, though...)

 

[Saulkar]

Vodka, mafia, terrorists, cold, bad shave, thick accent, burly, often stupid or melodramatic and communist (red/kremlin/ect). Usually the unsophisticated villain or henchman. Or, well, that MW airport level... whatever we are there, I guess. That being my Russian side.
As for the Canadian one.. er... I've never really seen a Canadian video game or anime character. <.< Geez.

Commander Shepard Male variant counts as one.;-)

 

[Yossarian1507]

Well, I'm from Canada and the American and Canadian school system don't teach us much about Eastern-European countries at ALL, unless we take a world's history class. Hell America avoids the War of 1812 where we burned down their White House twice, and we avoid a lot of the things settlers did to the natives here.

That's what I thought, and I'm not condemning it. It's natural, that your entire learning material is a history of your own country, + some major events elsewhere (like French Revolution, or discovery of America in my case). But now imagine, that one of the most important happenings in the whole history of your country (in this case - let's take the battle in Vienna, since it's considered as one of our two most decisive victories in our history, besides crushing the Teutonic Order at Grunwald in 1410) just been called false by a foreigner who barely scratched the topic. That just hurts (again, I mean no offense toward blackhawk. I just want to set things straight).

 

[nin_ninja]

Well, I'm from Canada and the American and Canadian school system don't teach us much about Eastern-European countries at ALL, unless we take a world's history class. Hell America avoids the War of 1812 where we burned down their White House twice, and we avoid a lot of the things settlers did to the natives here.

That's what I thought, and I'm not condemning it. It's natural, that your entire learning material is a history of your own country, + some major events elsewhere (like French Revolution, or discovery of America in my case). But now imagine, that one of the most important happenings in the whole history of your country (in this case - let's take the battle in Vienna, since it's considered as one of our two most decisive victories in our history, besides crushing the Teutonic Order at Grunwald in 1410) just been called false by a foreigner who barely scratched the topic. That just hurts (again, I mean no offense toward blackhawk. I just want to set things straight).

I've also gotten people saying that the war of 1812 never happened. People are gonna deny things they know nothing about, it's human nature.

 

[Cobbs]

Beer, Poisonous Animals a Dollar a Dozen, Knives and the Entire Spectrum of Moustach Sciences

 

[Mcupobob]

I'm form Californian, were always represented as the surfers/stoner's or uptight liberals.

 

[Nocturnal Gentleman]

Well, I'm from Canada and the American and Canadian school system don't teach us much about Eastern-European countries at ALL, unless we take a world's history class. Hell America avoids the War of 1812 where we burned down their White House twice, and we avoid a lot of the things settlers did to the natives here.

That's what I thought, and I'm not condemning it. It's natural, that your entire learning material is a history of your own country, + some major events elsewhere (like French Revolution, or discovery of America in my case). But now imagine, that one of the most important happenings in the whole history of your country (in this case - let's take the battle in Vienna, since it's considered as one of our two most decisive victories in our history, besides crushing the Teutonic Order at Grunwald in 1410) just been called false by a foreigner who barely scratched the topic. That just hurts (again, I mean no offense toward blackhawk. I just want to set things straight).

I've also gotten people saying that the war of 1812 never happened. People are gonna deny things they know nothing about, it's human nature.

Who denied the war? What are you talking about? American history classes do cover the war of 1812. We have to. Also, why do Canadians always say they burned down the White House? The British did that. Canadians may have helped but the main force was not from Canada.