Odd stereotypes you don't get

[Deathmageddon]

The stereotype that all black people like fried chicken just sounds completely ridiculous. I know that most stereotypes are at least partly based on fact

In the US, post-Civil War but before the late 60's, black people tended to be very poor. Fried chicken is a very inexpensive meal, so it became a staple, hence the stereotype.

 

[Ninjat_126]

I don't get the stereotype about Australia being this apparent Hell-on-Earth full of venomous man-eating monsters. I mean, come on, really?

It's like an RPG fantasy world. You're safe in town, where most of the NPCs live, but if you leave town every few steps there's a random encounter with some horrible monster trying to kill you.

Like giant crocodiles on the beaches. Or lethally poisonous jellyfish. Or the ones that don't kill you, just leave you in agonising pain for days to months. Or giant birds that can disembowel you with a kick. Or giant mammal things that do the same.


The monsters are real, and they will kill you, but if you just drop in on a tourist trip, all you'll probably encounter will be the coconuts, the jellyfish and the kangaroos.

 

[Deathmageddon]

New Orleanians being crazy drunken partiers who flash boobies at the drop of a string of beads.

Note: I'm not denying any of that happens IN New Orleans, I'm just saying it's really more tourists who do that crap. xD

It's because that's all the rest of us know about New Orleans besides Cajun food and Katrina.

 

[Cimerax]

All Germans are angry. Germans are some of the friendliest people in the world.

 

[smithy_2045]

That Australians "throw the shrimp on the barbie". I know it was in an old tourism ad but I have honestly no idea what the flying fuck it even means. I have never thrown a shrimp on a barbecue or seen anybody throw a shrimp onto a barbecue in my entire life of 19 years living in Australia, and no-one has ever used the term before or even since the ad, so... yeah. The bloody hell is that all about mate.

It is common knowledge that kangaroos definitely roam up and down main street Canberra and we all hunt crocodiles for a living with hunting knives strapped to our shins. All Australians are essentially slightly less polite versions of TF2's Sniper. This is pure, unadulterated fact; anyone who attests to the contrary is unpatriotic and provably wrong. Uh, mate.

We've gotta be tough, otherwise how the hell would we survive the constant drop bear attacks?!

 

[Ieyke]

I'm just gonna throw this in here and you can make of it what you will. This is absolutely true:

I college I had a roommate.
A black guy named Denzel.
Our fridge ALWAYS had the following:
-Orange soda
-"Purple Drink" (which I did not know was a thing before then)
-a watermelon
Our kitchen counter VERY VERY frequently (like every other day) had an empty KFC bucket sitting on it.
I was responsible for NONE of those consumables being in the dorm. That was all Denzel.
Denzel would wake up in the morning and blast gospel music through the dorm apartment.
In the middle of the day there would be rap blasting through his door.
At night there would be R&B
Denzel himself was a very loud person.


Denzel is the reason for the black people stereotype.
He is the most freakishly stereotypical black guy I've ever encountered.

I kid you not.
Like I said, that is completely true.

 

[Offworlder_v1legacy]

That every Australian is a beer swilling, shorts and check shirt wearing bogans, and that we all live in small country towns. Sydney is a city of 4 million people for god sakes, how the hell is that supposed to be a small country town?

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

I hate black stereotypes [http://s7.postimage.org/ikbjraqs9/2432_c4e7.jpg]. Don't like a single one of these.

 

[Soviet Steve]

Danes were depicted in South Park as... I don't even know what.

This is not how Danes look. D: