True that (the stereotype, not the actual ownership) but I don't feel as offended as the whole "oh look, she's got a cock" business.Fappy said:
What is your state's/country's embarrassing stereotype?
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English! Whenever I'm in America I always get asked if I know the Queen! Being from the south east of England I get called posh everywhere else in the UK! Though I also get mistaken for being Australian as Southerners don't have a distinguished accent compared to the rest of England!
Stereotypes nowadays are more used for comedy purposes!
This thread has reminded me of this where Al Murray does it to the world:
Annoyingly I couldn't find the full version where hea talks about Europe aswell!
These are the ones I can remember!
Ireland - Britain's sidecar!
French - Neighbours from hell!
Germany - Too quiet for too long!
Turkey - Brithplace of Chritsmas!
Columbia - Capital of excitement *sniff*
Stereotypes nowadays are more used for comedy purposes!
This thread has reminded me of this where Al Murray does it to the world:
Annoyingly I couldn't find the full version where hea talks about Europe aswell!
These are the ones I can remember!
Ireland - Britain's sidecar!
French - Neighbours from hell!
Germany - Too quiet for too long!
Turkey - Brithplace of Chritsmas!
Columbia - Capital of excitement *sniff*
Germany:
being right arrogant bastards who think they work harder than anybody else (not going to comment on the silly...)
harbouring world domination plans (while true for me, not true for ALL germans)
drinking lots of beer and wearing Lederhosen while celebrating Oktoberfest (oktoberfest is actually bavarian and only held in Munich... but we are #2 in per capita beer consumption as far as i know)
being stuffy and organized about everything, being efficient (i wish...)
liking Angela Merkel (weeeell, i guess some third of the population voted for her...)
being right arrogant bastards who think they work harder than anybody else (not going to comment on the silly...)
harbouring world domination plans (while true for me, not true for ALL germans)
drinking lots of beer and wearing Lederhosen while celebrating Oktoberfest (oktoberfest is actually bavarian and only held in Munich... but we are #2 in per capita beer consumption as far as i know)
being stuffy and organized about everything, being efficient (i wish...)
liking Angela Merkel (weeeell, i guess some third of the population voted for her...)
I'm from England, specifically the South-East. More specifically, Brighton, so I am therefore sterotypically either a hippy or gay. I'm neither, but I do have bad teeth so that satisfies the general English stereotype at least! And I like tea and football.
Also, if the Daily Mail is to be believed, this country is all asylum seekers and Polish.
Also, if the Daily Mail is to be believed, this country is all asylum seekers and Polish.
UK, England specifically.
Where do I start? I've spoken tocheese-eating surrender monkeys French people, racist gun-toting fatties Americans, blonde Viking metalheads Swedish people and communist maths savants people from China, and they all seem to have a different preconception.
It's probably because, generally speaking, the English tend to put it about a bit. We did the whole imperial thing a while ago and that was really the last of the great empires. And these days a lot of what I would term 'working class' Brits go abroad a few times a year (don't ask me how they afford it) and seem to pass their time in places like Marbella and Tenerif, where they drink heavily, occupy prison cells and generally piss off the locals.
So a lot of other European countries get the impression that everyone in Britain is like that. Or they subscribe to the American preconception that we're all either twinkly-eyed cockneys or snooty aristocrats. A Chinese student I got to know last year was actually more clued-up on British current affairs than she was Chinese ones, but she seemed to think that British people lived in Middle-earth and did nothing but take afternoon tea and fall in love in various Austen, Brontë, Hardy, Wilde, Keats and, to a lesser extent, Byron inspired ways.
A lot of this is actually pretty close to the truth. Binge drinking is a massive problem in Britain, as is anti-social behaviour and unemployment. The blame for this gets passed around a lot, but for my money it's the fault of a poor attitude to parenting and a strange culture of believing that you are owed something by society.
Anyway, those of us who don't destroy our internal organs and have them rebuilt at the expense of the taxpayer every night tend to be quite calm and sensible. We're generally quite awkward when it comes to our emotions, either failing to experience them at all or becoming incredibly defensive and secretive about them. Manners aren't as important in Britain as my Chinese friend thought, but there are certain unspoken rules of general conduct that can be difficult for foreigners to grasp, about things like how to behave in queues and which subjects are off limits in polite conversation.
Of all the symptoms of being English I think snobbery is the one I exhibit most. Could you not tell? I'm utterly hopeless when it comes to romance and I do speak with a BBC accent. So as an Englishman I am quite stereotypical.
I say Englishman rather than Brit becausethe obese wasteland of frozen doom Scotland, the mountain of woolly humping Wales and the drunken sea Ireland have entire landscapes of social conventions and eccentricities of their own. Don't lump us all in together, we're a United Kingdom, not a single population.
Where do I start? I've spoken to
It's probably because, generally speaking, the English tend to put it about a bit. We did the whole imperial thing a while ago and that was really the last of the great empires. And these days a lot of what I would term 'working class' Brits go abroad a few times a year (don't ask me how they afford it) and seem to pass their time in places like Marbella and Tenerif, where they drink heavily, occupy prison cells and generally piss off the locals.
So a lot of other European countries get the impression that everyone in Britain is like that. Or they subscribe to the American preconception that we're all either twinkly-eyed cockneys or snooty aristocrats. A Chinese student I got to know last year was actually more clued-up on British current affairs than she was Chinese ones, but she seemed to think that British people lived in Middle-earth and did nothing but take afternoon tea and fall in love in various Austen, Brontë, Hardy, Wilde, Keats and, to a lesser extent, Byron inspired ways.
A lot of this is actually pretty close to the truth. Binge drinking is a massive problem in Britain, as is anti-social behaviour and unemployment. The blame for this gets passed around a lot, but for my money it's the fault of a poor attitude to parenting and a strange culture of believing that you are owed something by society.
Anyway, those of us who don't destroy our internal organs and have them rebuilt at the expense of the taxpayer every night tend to be quite calm and sensible. We're generally quite awkward when it comes to our emotions, either failing to experience them at all or becoming incredibly defensive and secretive about them. Manners aren't as important in Britain as my Chinese friend thought, but there are certain unspoken rules of general conduct that can be difficult for foreigners to grasp, about things like how to behave in queues and which subjects are off limits in polite conversation.
Of all the symptoms of being English I think snobbery is the one I exhibit most. Could you not tell? I'm utterly hopeless when it comes to romance and I do speak with a BBC accent. So as an Englishman I am quite stereotypical.
I say Englishman rather than Brit because
I cannot imagine a life where I get my fries without mayonnaise. It goes against anything my parents have ever taught me.rodeolifant said:
But yeah, you're right. I went on holiday to Turkey this summer and I met some English chaps there. After telling them I was from The Netherlands, one of 'em asked "What language do they speak there?". Then after finding out I'm from Amsterdam all the grass and red light inqueries came yada yada.
Canadians are so nice EH?!? EH?!? EHEHHHHHH!?!! If you're wondering what the stereotype is, Canadians are always the most nicest people on the planet. It's completely untrue, we may be courteous but by gum we have a lot of degenerates, criminals, and people who like dubstep/autotune music (most of the time the three go hand-in-hand.)
It's kinda sad because I already forgot his name. And that reflects society in general, I think. People forget the bad things quickly and continue being led like sheep.Professor James said:
I always hated that stereotype. In my opinion the people of Quebec were very forward thinking in their provincial policies and that they have been a great and positive influence on the rest of Canada politically - if not now, at least in the past.Psykoma said:
I'm from America. I'm not going to state the stereotype, since we all know it. Although to add to the thread I'm from Illinois. Im not sure what the stereotype is for that, but I'm sure it has something to do with Chicago, Pizza, and Thompson Submachine guns.
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.sextus the crazy said:
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.Nuke_em_05 said:
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.
You can attribute the decline in cultural relevance of the pacific Northwest to the state government. You may notice few shows and movies filmed in the last fifteen years actually take place in Seattle. The state has made it very difficult and costly to actually film anything here. So you rarely have anything set in Washington unless a previous work (book, etc) calls for it.
Almost everything that takes place in Washington is filmed in Canada, and uses stock shots of Seattle. The last major pop culture thing I can even think of that was set in Washington is the Twilight series, and even that was filmed in Oregon.
...........Ohio
We have a mix of them, and our Football(Not soccer) mascot is named after a nut.
We have a mix of them, and our Football(Not soccer) mascot is named after a nut.