country stereotypes

Put your vision of the stereotype of the average citizen of your country (or your section of the country):

Qualities of a massachusetts citizen:
politically correct until his or her passing away
liberal on all the issues except the ones that matter
puritan
often lesbian
witch burner
tea destroyer

Popular Sayings:
"Patriots RULE" or "Red Sahks rahk!"

Most disgraced person:
Kennedy's cousin... scakill? ... and our governor

Biggest wastes of money:
Dr. Seuss Memorial (mentioned on the Daily Show as example of government waste)
the Big Dig

Whachu talkin 'bout, ya'll? I reckon that everythun' people dun think about us here floridians is mighty right. Hyuck! I cayn't vote!

California stereotype:
Spoiled gossipy rich asses that are overly liberal

The truth:
Spoiled gossipy rich asses that are retarded and cry about everything. MORONS!!!

Alabama has some serious stereotypes.

Just know, everyone isnt like the ppl that you see on TV, that talk like Ken just did :P.

People that fit that stereotype are from the LITTLE towns, not the bigger cities.

Hey Vicious don't forget the incest!

Sterotypes:

1. We all have pet beavers
2. There's gay mounties everywhere
3. It always snows
4. We live in igloos
5. There's no large cities
6. There's penguins
7. Terrorists all live here
8. We have no military power
9. We all say "eh?"
10. We rule at hockey

Truth:
1. I've never even seen a beaver. I think they're all dead from the fur trade in the 1700's
2. Yeah we have mounties, but they hardly ever ride their horses, and hardly ever wear their red uniforms. And by the way, they look cool, not gay.
3. This is the same climate as the northern states
4. I've never even seen an igloo
5. Um... Montreal, Quebec, Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria...
6. SOUTH pole NOT NORTH(I hope I'm right about this or I'll feel really stupid)
7. Right after 9/11 everyone complained about how they all were able to sneak in through Canada, and it was all Canada's fault. Read the news and you'll see how they all got American passports, trained in American schools etc.
8. Our military is small but deadly. Although equiptment is typically inferior to American, training and discipline is much higher.
9. This one's actually true, eh
10. Damn right!!

These were actually said to me by Americans. I thought they were pretty funny, especially the bit about igloos.

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9. We all say "eh?"

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And don't forget "aboot" instead of "about".

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Hey Vicious don't forget the incest!

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I thought that was West Virginia?!

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Originally posted by mike_k
Sterotypes:

1. We all have pet beavers
2. There's gay mounties everywhere
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There are too gay mounties. I should know, I've sleept with 2 of them.





and no, not at the same time, I know how you think .................................................. .......................pervert!


:D

You live all the way across the US, yet somehow you snatched 2 canadian mounties?

Odd....

Arkansas has way too many negative stereotypes. Jeez, look at my user name. :( :D

>People that fit that stereotype are from the LITTLE towns, not the bigger cities.<

I think there is people like that all over the US, and they all live in smaller towns. For example, I'm sure a small town in Oregon or something has some "hickish" type trailer trash people.

But in bigger cities, definitely. You don't find people like that, thank God. We hate them too, people. ;)

PS.: Ken really is a hick. :D

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But in bigger cities, definitely. You don't find people like that, thank God. We hate them too, people.

PS.: Ken really is a hick.

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Son - whin wuz th' las' time you got a REAL ass-whoopin?

ok here's another one...

In Canada there's a province called Newfoundland (Which just changed its name to "Newfoundland and Labradour") where the people are, shall we say, "different". And this is not just made up, I have several newfie friends and they're all really strange. In fact, just as in the Us they'll tell blond jokes, in Canada we'll tell Newfie Jokes.

Anyway, heres a "virus" I got in my email awhile ago:

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This is the Newfie Virus

As we ain't got any programming experience this works on the honor system.

First, format your hard drive yourself, then mail the virus to everyone in your mailing list.

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:D :D :D :D :D

>>PS.: Ken really is a hick.

Perhaps I should show them that picture of you over at flashdaddee...::whistles:: "Scooby dooby doo, where are you?"...

Yeah, that's what I thought, hick-boy. Now shutup.



:D

Wurst case scenario OR meet the stereotypical german

- square jawed robot
- car outperforms yours easily and we have the autobahns to prove it
- Beer. We eat it, we drink it, we bath our children in it... it's everywhere
- serious
- orderly
- occupy beaches in the morning, fortifying beachheads with sandcastles
- owns a shepherd
- Götterdämmerung
- Vergangenheitsbewältigung*



* The sum total of difficulties a nation encounters in struggling to to come to terms with it's dodgy past. Who but the germans would have a word for it...

i can't let that go by without posting a picture of Hillbillie...

but i guess i need permission.. :(

Well let's see... brits...

English:

-Wearers of tweed jackets and monacles
-Always polite, totally unexcitable and reserved
-Aren't getting any
-Have a fascination with horse-racing or hunting
-Avid tea-drinkers and biscuit dunkers

If you don't fit into this category then you have the other extreme...

The football hooligan.


Welsh:

-Where's Wales?
-Have improper thoughts about sheep.

Scottish:

Haggis, kilts and bagpipes.

Americans in general:

No knowledge of other cultures
Moron Presidents
Think we're superior
Hypocrites
ect, ect, ect....

Now, lets see, how many of these are false. Well, ummm, errrrr..... I hate you all, leave me alone.:mad:

That's a good one :D

Canadian....

That Beer Ad,.,,

[Yankee]: So, you're a CANADIAN EHHHHHH.....HAHAHAHHAH...where's your PET BEAVER??
- Here it is *takes out a beaver* [I hope that’s what they said!]

classics :cool: :D
[I hope that’s what he said, I can’t exactly remember....there were a couple more, but I can’t remember the exact lines]

DAMNIT:mad:, I just ruined a good joke:mad:
*hits self on the head*

Well the rest of Canada assumes we're all fishermen down here in the Maritime provinces.

The main steroetype of Canidians that I use is that they're crazy. And from what I've seen (been to Vancouver Island 3 times) it's true.

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Originally posted by Pendragon
Well let's see... brits...

English:

-Wearers of tweed jackets and monacles
-Always polite, totally unexcitable and reserved
-Aren't getting any
-Have a fascination with horse-racing or hunting
-Avid tea-drinkers and biscuit dunkers

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Don't forget the bad teeth.

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Originally posted by mike_k

6. There's penguins
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6. SOUTH pole NOT NORTH(I hope I'm right about this or I'll feel really stupid)

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<Puts on pedantic hat>
There are no penguins at either the north or south pole. Penguins do live in Antarctica, on the shoreline areas, and range up to to more temperate zones, such as S Africa.
Putting penguins at the south pole is like putting Toronto at the north pole.

Canada
11. Drinking age 19, lots of cross border travel by the under 21 US crowd.
12. Quebecois permanently ........ed off at English speakers.

Canadian Bacon is my all-time favorite politically CORRECT movie :)

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....there were a couple more, but I can’t remember the exact lines

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There's the one where the girls like "Oh your from Canada.... Do you know Glen... from Canada.... He works in a office... in Canada..."

"Oh. Office Glen. He's Dead"

How about the Saint Louisans?

If you've heard anything about Saint Louisans, you may have heard some of these things:

- that we're all big sports fans--the Cardinals (National League baseball), the Blues (NHL hockey), and the Rams (NFL football).

- that we were into soccer before soccer moms were even heard of (thank all the Catholic school CYC soccer teams and mass immigration from soccer-loving countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries).

- that we're not much for basketball (you must remember, the last NBA team moved out a long time ago)--"What's a 'Knick'?"

- that we like to eat concrete--a frozen yogurt desert, kind of like a Dairy Queen Blizzard (the concrete was probably an inspiration for the more recent Blizzard), served from Ted Drew's (two locations in the City!).

- that we have a strong disliking of hoosiers (unsophisticated, oafish rednecks/hillbillies/slack-jawed yockels (like Kleetus)); and, if you're not careful, you'll get called one, too.

- that all the hoosiers live in trailers in Arnold.

- that we have a metropolitan-wide "inferiority complex" with Chicago--"So what if Chicago has a bigger population, a downtown that is actually vibrant, more big business headquarters, more and possibly better restaurants, and more stuff to do? They don't have the Arch! Oh yeah, and Sammy Sosa didn't beat Mark McGwire in the home run race!"

- that we all pronounce words like for, forty, or, with an are sound instead of the more usual ore sound; this simply isn't true, at least for most of the younger generations, with older people it may still be true.

- that we pronounce sundae like "sunduh." Like the ore as are pronunciation, this nonstandard pronunciation is becoming increasingly rare.

- that the first thing we'll ask a person we just met what high school they went to. (I think we'll ask, "Hi, how are ya?" first.)

- that we don't come to a complete stop at stop signs--"Honest, officer, I thought I did come to a complete stop back there."

- that we are highly provincial--we got the City of Saint Louis; all the various municipalities like Clayton, University City (the U. City Loop), etc.; the Metro East (in Illinois); etc.--"We like it that way! Tell the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch to stop pushing its plans for urban consolidation/renewal/revitalization on us!"

- that our winters are cold and our summers are hot and humid (you won't get "mild" much in Saint Louis).

- that we are dull, average Americans; we're typically neither too conservative nor too liberal; we don't adopt the latest thing until the likes of San Francisco, New York, and Chicago have been the Guinea pigs first--"A few years back, Time magazine did an article about life at Webster High School in Webster Groves [a suburb in the County] because it was so incredibly average!"

>Son - whin wuz th' las' time you got a REAL ass-whoopin?<

ROFL... I've never had an ass-whoopin, but you have my permission to proceed and try to give me one. :p

>Canadian Bacon is my all-time favorite politically CORRECT movie<

Hear hear, that movie is the ****.

>Yeah, that's what I thought, hick-boy. Now shutup.<

LOL, wut er you tokin' abowt? I ain't no hick, ya yella bella. :p

>but i guess i need permission.<

Bah, I don't care. But if you post my picture, you've got to post Ken's as well as the picture of Govtcheez's face on the cow (or maybe the one with his face on the Michelin baby). :D

no fair, mine was taken 2 years ago when I was a fatass with a min-fro! :)

well...

here's the photo gallery down at flashdaddee. if you look hard enough you can find 'em all.:D

here's a newer one of hillbillie... (i'll get to the gov't cow in a post or two)

govtcow.

and ken. (there's a ... more controversial... picture, but with a little searching you can probably find it at flashdaddee.com)

Haha, just for the record: I shaved off my sideburns and that lil' patch of hair under my chin. (For real.)

God do I need to find a picture of me looking sexy so I can combat that...bleh, I don't have any pictures though, all my girl-friends take them and I usually never ask for copies.

and HB! How could you! The chin patch was the only thing keeping you sexy. Geez, now you've killed the (wet)dream :). Anyhow, if you look at the picture of HB from his student ID he looks exactly like Ross from Friends :)

Well, can't think of much for Ohio besides the fact that it is chalk of bull- headed republicans (yeah, I'm talking to you Taft) who would rather take the $40 million lottery surplus that was intended to go to the failing school systems and vote in that it be used to pay their salaries instead. Also, our citizens don't give a damn about the school system themselves. They're all baby boomer republicans who would rather VOTE OUT LEVIES INTENDEED JUST TO KEEP THE SCHOOL SYSTEMS FROM GOING BANKRUPT THAN GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE FUTURE THEY SCREWED ME OUT OF. Well, when I was in school, I made the threat that if those ass****s republicans in Ohio, with their stupid voucher lobbying, decide to screw me out of a decent future, then I would (which I am old enought to now) rally my fellow generation to decide on which social security benefits get cut, and I still intend to carry the threat out; after all, fair is fair.

Oh yeah, our poor education has also taught us that there are only 3 seasons of the year: Almost Winter, Winter, and Construction.

Well, in Michigan the lottery goes only to support the schools. Of course, the general fund spending on schools is cut by the same amount, so no net gain.

OK, stereotypes of Ohio from up here:

1. Flat. Really flat.
2. Ok, hills in the southern part. But now you're talking hillbilly.
3. What the f*** is there to do down there? Besides Cedar Point & Sea World? And why is there a Sea World in Ohio???
4. Hot. Humid. Winter worthless without snow.
5. Pretty damn conservative. Except for the drive thru beer and liquor stores. Gotta wonder about that.

Just joshing around, I have lots of relatives in Ohio, mostly Zanesville area (and they speak hillbilly). Really nice people there. If they got rid of ticks and chiggers, had real seasons topping out at 75 - 80 F in summer, and had lots of trout streams, I might live there. As is, see no point in going below the 45th parallel, unless altitude compensates for the difference.

While I'm at it, let's hit the Europeans...

Nah, they love hitting the US, let 'em have their fun. We can take it, gnats on the elephant and all... :D

>and HB! How could you!<

Don't worry. I'm in the act of growing it back.

The reason why I shaved it is because I was thinking of growing a big afro type beard over the summer and come back to school to get my senior ID picture made like that. :p It got too itchy, so I shaved that bugger off!

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Originally posted by salvelinus
3. What the f*** is there to do down there? Besides Cedar Point & Sea World? And why is there a Sea World in Ohio???

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Not even Sea World, Six flags bought up Geauga Lake and neighboring Sea World and closed down Sea World for expansion.