How is your Country Displayed

[Simulated Eon]

Sweden is full of sexually atractive blond chicks who speak with an German accent and alwys says "ja?" at the end of each sentence (altough we have the word "ja" which means yes and is pronounced almost as the begining of "ya'll"). Oh and it is snowing all the time here.

And do not forget that we are allways neutral.

Well hardly in earlier ages (I'm thinking about vikings, and about the years 1600-1800 probably earlier too) but now adays it's mostly true.

 

[Pyrignis]

Well, Holland has been mentioned enough, so I will talk about my province, Limburg.
We are being thought of (by the rest of Holland) as "not really Dutch" or "Half-Belgian/German".
We are also thought of as being really right winged politically (because of Geert Wilders)

Off course, like all stereotypes, it's generally untrue and not everybody thinks this.

(Fun fact: Our Capital Maastricht is in the most southern part and everyone there thinks that the more northern parts are not Limburgs enough =P)

 

[Ritter315]

cross between a Pancho Villa, Kaiser Wilhelm (First not second) and Jozef Pilsudski.

My God, if it would actually happen, the Earth would melt down from awesomeness. I mean just look at their badass mustaches!

I know right?! My dream is to have a moustache just like them!

 

[krseyffert]

I'm South African, and the only roles I've seen portrayed by a South African, or of a South African, are on District 9, and Leonardo DiCaprio on Blood Diamond, but his accent was shit so i'll mark it down as a maybe...

 

[RanD00M]

Romania
I don't think we have stereotypes since probably most of the world never heard of it and if it heard it probably never gave it any importance.So none.
P.S.Actually the Italians think were all gypsies so I suppose that counts.

Oh yeah? Romania = Transylvania = Dracula = Vampires.
You only have the most infamous vampire ever.

 

[Bobbovski]

Some of the things I've noticed that Sweden/Swedes are known for:

The Noble prize
IKEA
ABBA
Beautiful blonde girls
Porn
Being a socialist paradise/hell hole (depending if you're left or right wing)
High suicide rates (If you're right wing)
Tall blonde people
Vikings
People (usually girls) saying "Ja" with a German accent
Girls named Helga
Atheism
Being confused with Switzerland

 

[The Boy in the Hat]

We from this Green and Pleasant Land (The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, if you were wondering) are predominantly portrayed thus:

English: Hollywood seems to think every Englishman and woman comes from Kent and therefore enunciates every word with military precision and uses Standard English all of the time (Personally I wish this one was true)
Or we are all from London and speak like Cockneys.

Scotsmen (again, I wish this one was true) are either badass or coarse and gruff.
So really, not a stereotype. Or so I like to think, being proud of my national heritage. (Okay, so I'm only half Scottish)

The Irish tend to be shown as either extremely pious or extremely drunk, or free with the old expletives.
My Irish friend tells me this is not much of an exaggeration.

 

[thirion1850]

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.;-)

Ah! He does? Well, thank god - at least that's one.

 

[teh_Canape]

well, I'm from Argentina, so....

being poor and terrible and handling economy, having james bond's nemesis working in our mines, slutty christian school girls, soccer, eating a shitload of meat (this one is true), Maradona, losing lands against them brits, having our natural resources in USA's sight and... that's it

oh, wait, being invaded by alien insect swarms

 

[creepy_rabbit]

we have the hottest women on the surface on the earth,were either awesome badasses or pussies (depends on who you ask), we all work at ikea and have names like Jürgen and Nils.
we also live in loghouses on the top of mountains

 

[BlackStar42]

I'm also Polish.

People think we're stupid or weak because of world war 2.

Do they know we saved the rest of Europe from getting their heads kicked in by the Soviets after World War 1? Oh because we smashed a big army of theirs heading towards Germany (you all know the thanks we got from those fucks). See Polish-Soviet War, or Miracle on the Vistula.

Do they know Nicholas Copernicus was Polish? Gee thanks for that whole everything revolves around the sun theory you dumb Polak!

Marie Curie? Atomic theory and two discovered elements? What did you think Polonium was named after? Again, another example of how we are stupid people.

Some of the oldest universities in Europe are in Poland.

Polish patriots helped America crush the British. Thadeus Kosciusko and Kaszimir Pulaski.

Remember that German blitzkrieg thing? Yeah we destroyed 25% of the Luftwaffe and lasted as long as France in battle. Unlike France we didn't have foreign armies helping us and we also got jumped by Germany and the USSR. Quit making it sound like we threw our arms up.

Driving the Turks away from Vienna sparing Europe a Muslim invasion? Thanks Poland!

First European kingdom with any democratic elements in their government? Us.

First kingdom in Europe to allow religious freedom? Us.

Surviving 1000 years of ethnic cleansing, war, and genocide? Us.

Don't forget the Battle of Wizna. 720 Poles against 42,000 Germans. The Poles fought on till the last man. That takes some serious balls.

 

[nin_ninja]

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.;-)

Ah! He does? Well, thank god - at least that's one.

Both the male and female voice actors are Canadian.

 

[Dyp100]

England? I would rather like to think it's portrayed as a veritable medley of upper class, top hatted gentlemen dontcha know. What ho, pip pip and all that other tosh.

Regrettably, within the next 5 years I see the stereotype moving towards "Alreet, fuck aye wif a can o' cheap beer and mah ho wot ah shag. Ahm 12 init".

This very possible change of events saddens me.

When people think of england people think of your god awful teeth.

Oddly, we have better teeth care than America.

I love irony. :B

 

[Sedweiler]

[quote="erto101" post="18.247140.9072833OT: Finland - nothing to see here, nothing to do here, polarbears on the streets and all that.
The single thing our economy depends on is Nokia and we're a former USSR front. (The last bit is particularly ironic as we sided with the NAZIS to avoid such fate.)

People here are tall blondes with blue eyes who talk so little you'd think they were mute and drink so much you'd think they were dead.

That's of course assuming this place really exists. I've actually run into arguments with someone saying otherwise

This, plus that the basic state of a Finn is depression.

The rest has already been ninja'd (sauna, knives etc). And we have some weird competitions (air guitar worldchampionship, wife-carrying, swamp-soccer etc).

 

[Habakkuk]

Well, if the stereotype is anything to go by, I'm either a posh, top hat wearing, Tea drinking landowner with a butler and a house staff of millions. Or I'm a wide eyed cockney chimney sweep.

Surfice to say, the only one of these thats true is that i drink tea... a lot.

Oh, and we don't all have a huge stiffy for the Queen.

 

[JochemDude]

Americans
Non-Progressive and often too radical in expressing its opinion

Polish
Proud (for damm good reasons) and very straight to the point

English
Kinda snobbish and very stubborn

French
Probably the most patriotic people who will ever live

now for my own country

Holland
I have the feeling that people see us either as hippie's or open minded into the extreme

 

[zestamaster]

true but still no one really recolonizes oregon ecept for nike

 

[Toriver]

Let's see...

I'm originally from Minnesota, which means I must be a lutefisk-eating, fishing-obsessed Scandinavian wit' dat dere accent from Fargo (which is in North Dakota) doncha know? That, or a living, breathing Ole and Lena joke. Yah sure, you betcha!

My family is German, which can be summed up in one word: Nazis.

And with my current location, Japan, there are just too many to mention, and they are all wrong.

Apparently you guys have vikings too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kni0YN76Ux0

I tried to push the first Pokemon movie from my mind about 5 seconds after I saw it. It's a pun on the Minnesota Vikings (for all you who don't follow football, that's our NFL team), which derives its name from the large Scandinavian (especially Norwegian) heritage in the state. That would also be where the stereotype that ALL Minnesotans are Norwegian comes from. BTW, I don't have a single bit of Norwegian in me, though I'm still pretty stereotypical considering that after Scandinavians, Germans are the next largest ethnicity there.

EDIT: Oh, BTW, Okysho, we don't hate Canadians near as much as HIMYM would have you believe. Considering Minnesota's politics, until Obama was elected a good number of us probably wanted Canada to claim us.

 

[Ericb]

Right now? At fucking war.

At least as far as Rio de Janeiro goes.

Yeah, so I heard. Sounds pretty serious. Any inside details?

It's for real. I live close to the slums where the dealers took refuge from the police.

Almost no transportation going this way and not a soul on the street. I missed a rehearsal and work over this. But I knew it was coming.

 

[Aur0ra145]

Wyoming has two conflicting images associated with it, We are labeled the Equality State, but were famous for this one trial for a man who was murdered for being gay *often sited as the reason for Laws being passed nationwide labeled Hate Crimes*. We are also called the gay cowboy state, because the movie Brokeback Mountain took place here and we are officially known as the Cowboy state, though I believe Texas also gos by the Cowboy state.

Ultimately my state finds pride in the amount of hypocrisy its able to get away with.

Texas is the Lone Star State.

To add to convo. I'm from Texas, we generally are regarded as a battalion of John Wayne characters ready to kill anything that doesn't like apple pie.