What is your state's/country's embarrassing stereotype?

[Nuke_em_05]

And Seattle is known for... hipsters? Maybe? Olympia is known for being ultra-liberal, home to the Evergreen State college.

Though, my actual home town, Spokane, might be notorious for the "Otto Zehm" fiasco and other "corrupt police" stories. We also had a mayor and a few firefighters who solicited sex from young men from City computers...

Seattle has indy kids in far more abundance than hipsters. I know it can be easy to confuse them. Hipsters are a little more annoying, and way more self involved.

Washington is known for coffee, Microsoft, rain, and environmentalism. Pretty much where I have been people assume the entire state is covered in forests, when over half the state is desert. As for people there isn't a real stereotype to go along with it, you might say slightly liberal run of the mill nice people. Tacoma really screws up that stereotype through.

Yeah, we're known for a lot of things, but the question was embarrassing stereotypes (as in, potentially not generally true); not actual industries, weather, politics, or geography.

The way you define "Indy" sounds like a way for a group of hipsters to try to differentiate themselves from the "bad" hipsters.

 

[BaronUberstein]

I'm from Southern California, going to college in Ohio. People keep asking why I'm not tan and if I know how to surf.

Guess everyone from S. Cali is a surfer dude.

 

[TakeshiLive]

Well, maybe there is a reason Bangkok gets so many jaded European businessmen looking to get freaky tourists.

XD

To be honest... it's hard not to crack a smile at the name of that city XD

That's not even how locals pronounce the name of the city too >.>

 

[Hippobatman]

Norway here.

I'm not sure how people see us, really. What I hear is that we're born with skis on our legs and are all godlike at cross-country skiing. I guess we're also associated with black metal. Oh, and vikings and polar bears everywhere.

 

[sextus the crazy]

New York:

That we're all from NYC. It's frankly really annoying.

Yep. I know how it is. My particular area is usually thought of (at least here in Western New York) as just full of rednecks, drugs, guns, and freeloaders. Not entirely false, however.

I'm from Rochester myself, so we're just normal city folk. I generally think we're pretty friendly and tolerant.

 

[azel]

I'm dutch, so definately the drug addict stereotype. That or that we're very rude.

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

England

a sense of collective superiority floating around like a bad smell.

Are you joking? The best thing about us is we dont take ourselves seriously at all. Look at a LOT of our comedy. Black adder, the inbetweeners and the office. We laugh at ourselves. Its all humor based on the idea most of us are socially unaware awkward people. And we find that hilarious. We LOVE self depreciation. Making fun of ourselves is what England does best! We made a joke out of the Royal wedding when other countries went mental. We just couldnt give a shit. It was awesome.


That said me saying that has helped destroy that brilliant thing we have. So shhh

Id say tea drinking, bad teeth and posh is the main one. Despite the majority fitting none of these at all because: disgusting, NHS and middle class being the reasons why not respectively.

 

[Drejer43]

I am from Denmark, we must be incredible boring since we are never mentioned in Hollywood-films and therefor I can't say there is a stereotype. I guess there is a stereotype that we are unknowingly racist which is true so yeah.

 

[MopBox]

Baltimore City... So you can pretty much watch any episode of The Wire.

 

[Chemical Alia]

I'm from Pennsylvania. Do I LOOK Amish to you people? Seriously, I occasionally hear this.

I am PA Dutch, though, and can even understand the language pretty well.

 

[Shaved Apple]

Nebraska. Apparently we all love corn.