Your country's Stereotypes

[US Trooper]

The United States, every offensive sterotypes out there

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Stereotype for Japan: Tentacle Porn Fans, love pillows.

 

[trollnystan]

My father was Swedish and I was born and raised here so I guess that makes me:

-blonde (I was blonde as a kid, does that count?)
-blue-eyed (Sorry, hazel eyes)
-really tall (I'm 167 cm so no?)
-polite (actually I am)
-private (this too. I've had to train myself to not freeze when being hugged)
-damn socialist (well, I prefer it to capitalism so I guess yes...)
-nudist (so not me. Unless I'm at at home with the blinds drawn, then I prance around in my undies =P)
-sexy (the only people who've told me that I am have been lecherous old(er) men, drunkards and, oddly enough, lesbians trying to get into my pants. Oh and my friends but they don't count.)
-arrogant (I've got too low self-esteem for that, but yeah we're arrogant)

My mother on the other hand was Irish so then I'm also:

-drunkard (don't drink at all. Have them in the family though, and my father was one)
-friendly (I think I am. But in all honestly, the majority of Irish people I've met are mean by my standards)
-believe in and talk about fairies and the like in everyday conversation (my grandmother would have probably disowned me if I did)
-Catholic (I was raised such, but I no longer consider myself that)
-eats potatoes (this is big in both Ireland and Sweden. Good lord, how I hate potatoes)
-great sense of humour (I can find something funny in practically everything. I don't know if that counts. I do enjoy Irish black humour)
-good looking (I've yet to met an Irishman face-to-face who I found attractive. Who didn't have a parent from somewhere else anyway)

Wow. That was long. Sorry about that =o

TL;DR Swedes = sexy, blonde, statuesque, polite bastards. Irish = Friendly drunks who see fairies dancing in their potato patch.

 

[Berethond]

Finland.

Stoic, drunk and cold.

Also you guys take everything really seriously.

And drive really fast.

 

[Saint of M]

America:

pretty Much depending on whether we are the badassess of the world or the asses of the world.

Generlaly Speaking (and this is coming from some games and anime that come over):

Smart Ass
Village Idiot
Militant/Career Soldier
Macho Man

I'm surprised no one has mentioned rednecks yet (look up anything from Larry the Cable Guy and you get the idea).

 

[Bernzz]

I'm Aussie.

Lemmee count 'em off...

1. We all have accents like Crocodile Dundee.
2. We all are Crocodile Dundee: don't know how to function in cities, live in the Outback, wrestle crocodiles...
3. We're obsessed with barbecuing shrimp. I loathe shrimp.
4. We're all drunkards, drinking just to pass out. I drink to enjoy, and have never been drunk.
5. We're all super people. How else would we survive the dangerous animals?
6. As I said, all our animals can kill you with but a touch.

 

[DementedSheep]

NZ
Last time I checked the general stereotype was rugby obsessed, short shorts, gumboots and plaid shirt wearing, sheep humping hippies.

 

[Vouk]

Austrian: Either we're Nazis or we're extreme polite, musical geniuses in the footsteps of Mozart who frolick all day on our beautiful mountains.

(Just mix Schindler's List with Sound of Music and Mozart)

 

[DasDestroyer]

Russia.
Apparently everything happens backwards in Russia, and bears wear fur hats to the store to get vodka.
If so, the same thing happens in Canada, because I don't see much of a difference between the two.

 

[captaincabbage]

Australia: "Shrimp on the barbie". They're called prauns.

Ehm... Prawns actually.

lol.

OT: Australia, so my stereotype is easy-going, beer-swilling racist.

 

[Klepa]

Finland.

Stoic, drunk and cold.

Also you guys take everything really seriously.

And drive really fast.

What do you mean? We haven't won WRC nor Formula 1 for a long time, I don't see how those stereotypes fit, they aren't even funny. Explain yourself.

 

[Mr Cwtchy]

Welsh:

Sheep.
Nothing else to add really.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Hungarian: Body hair, bitterness, nationalism and anti-Semites.
Irish: Dhrink! Dhrink!

Needless to say, national stereotypes are stupid as hell.

 

[rabidmidget]

Like all other questions, I turn to Monty Python for answers

 

[BENZOOKA]

Finland.

Stoic, drunk and cold.

Also you guys take everything really seriously.

And drive really fast.

But at least we're slurring badly while driving through a deer without showing any emotions, so you can't know what it is we're taking too seriously.

That's a cool username by the way. My favorite is perhaps the story of Beren and Luthien, and Huan being the go-to character at that.

 

[darth.pixie]

Romania...we are all thieving gypsy vampires who can hack!

There are jokes here that every time we should pickpocket a foreigner we should leave a leaflet with the wonders of Vlad Tepes.

I'm quite sure that there are a lot more of them...

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

Scotland: We all wear kilts apparently.

 

[Wintermoot]

The Netherlands: either farmers in traditional clothes walking on clogs or drugs users
De Achterhoek (where I live): farmers launching soccer balls from milkcanisters or people jumping mud hills with dirtbikes
also I,m not sure about this one but the one that we are all soccer fans

 

[ChupathingyX]

 

[BENZOOKA]

<spoiler=snipped to a spoiler>My father was Swedish and I was born and raised here so I guess that makes me:

-blonde (I was blonde as a kid, does that count?)
-blue-eyed (Sorry, hazel eyes)
-really tall (I'm 167 cm so no?)
-polite (actually I am)
-private (this too. I've had to train myself to not freeze when being hugged)
-damn socialist (well, I prefer it to capitalism so I guess yes...)
-nudist (so not me. Unless I'm at at home with the blinds drawn, then I prance around in my undies =P)
-sexy (the only people who've told me that I am have been lecherous old(er) men, drunkards and, oddly enough, lesbians trying to get into my pants. Oh and my friends but they don't count.)
-arrogant (I've got too low self-esteem for that, but yeah we're arrogant)

My mother on the other hand was Irish so then I'm also:

-drunkard (don't drink at all. Have them in the family though, and my father was one)
-friendly (I think I am. But in all honestly, the majority of Irish people I've met are mean by my standards)
-believe in and talk about fairies and the like in everyday conversation (my grandmother would have probably disowned me if I did)
-Catholic (I was raised such, but I no longer consider myself that)
-eats potatoes (this is big in both Ireland and Sweden. Good lord, how I hate potatoes)
-great sense of humour (I can find something funny in practically everything. I don't know if that counts. I do enjoy Irish black humour)
-good looking (I've yet to met an Irishman face-to-face who I found attractive. Who didn't have a parent from somewhere else anyway)

Wow. That was long. Sorry about that =o

TL;DR Swedes = sexy, blonde, statuesque, polite bastards. Irish = Friendly drunks who see fairies dancing in their potato patch.

Never feel bad about making thorough posts. It's always good for the forums.

All in good spirits: The Finnish stereotypes about Swedish people aren't perhaps the most balanced gender-wise: Swedish girls are hot and cute, whereas Swedish guys are flimsy and feminine metrosexuals, who have self-tanned themselves to orange, wear white sailing clothes, sing drinking songs and so on.

Swedish-Finnish on the other hand are often referred to as "bättre folk", even by themselves, so it's not that serious.

I've never really got what the Swedish stereotype about Finns is, other than that we're supposed to be some kind of primitive woodsmen? Which doesn't make all that much sense.