Stereotypes about Your Country/State

[Madame Royale]

Rikku1994

About the patriotism-thing, though... is it really as bad& a lot as it seems from outside of the US? razz

Um, let's see. xD My high school mascot was the Patriot and our colors were red, white and blue. While I was growing up, we all had to learn and sing patriotic songs, and say the pledge of allegiance every morning at school. Schools have spirit weeks with "patriot day" where you deck yourself out in red, white and blue.

There are people who are ALL patriotic, where everything they own are the colors or has the flag on it. There are the ones that are in the middle... and the ones who are not patriotic AT ALL, like me. biggrin


The stereotypes for Los Angeles (California) that I knew of, is that everyone is either superficial or a gangster.

[snowman want meat]

supposedly people think canadians live in igloos, which is true, because the word Igloo actually means house, and we live in houses(though, that the case, then maybe i should have said Igloot as opposed to igloos. . .because data keeps its latin plural, so should igloo take its orginal plural. . .but then it would have a dual form too. . .alll so confusing)

[An Atrocious Story]

Most people already got the Canadian quotes covered. I'll add one more I didn't see(maybe I missed it, I thought it was common) Is about having pancakes with maple syrup for breakfast. Its not common. And I speak for myself here, I hate syrup its sticky and ucky, and I prefur frenchtoast. 3nodding

[Mercurial Anima]

TheFluffyElf

Mercurial Anima -Zeph-

We're all a bunch of backwoods, religious fanatic hicks, but not so bad that we marry our cousins.

I live in the middle of ******** nowhere. (Australians would be right at home here.)

I was born in Charlotte. I have no idea what stereotypes exist, but I've heard people say downtown Charlotte is the east coast version of Compton.

I've had a few foreign friends though, mostly in high school.

We had this black girl from Scotland. Well, her mom's from Louisiana.

That's....Three stereotypes.

She'll trade haggis for hot wings any day. But she does drink a lot and get into her fair share of brawls.

We've got an Australian too. The most notable thing about her is that she collects sharp pointy objects and voted for Tom and Jerry in the 2008 election.

My idea of Australian stereotypes?

Just making it to tomorrow is a crapshoot. I mean...The most dangerous animals in the world are native to either Australia or the Great Barrier Reef. In other words you have to kill at least five different species just to make it to work alive.

...One question though.

Is Darwin really the middle of nowhere like I think it is?

I had a hard time reading your posts. Are you dissing Australians, or are you one?

Neither.

And this is a thread about stereotypes, ain't it?

[X-i-lily-X]

We're cheap, stubborn and hard to negotiate with when asking for a lower buying price. We look for bargains but cannot give you one. Our children are smart. They must get over 90% on their report cards or else we spank them. Guess?

[X-i-lily-X]

Madame Manson

Most people already got the Canadian quotes covered. I'll add one more I didn't see(maybe I missed it, I thought it was common) Is about having pancakes with maple syrup for breakfast. Its not common. And I speak for myself here, I hate syrup its sticky and ucky, and I prefur frenchtoast. 3nodding

I remember one of my teachers saying that.
Last year, my homeroom teacher told us a story about when she went to the States, people were asking her what was it like living in the cold and things along those lines. She started laughing and teased them by saying "Yeah, it's REALLY cold here! We have no summer days here. We ALWAYS wear winter jackets and ride sled dogs to school! We're so used to it that we're immune to the cold!"

[Sockers]

Mercurial Anima -Zeph-

TheFluffyElf

Mercurial Anima -Zeph-

We're all a bunch of backwoods, religious fanatic hicks, but not so bad that we marry our cousins.

I live in the middle of ******** nowhere. (Australians would be right at home here.)

I was born in Charlotte. I have no idea what stereotypes exist, but I've heard people say downtown Charlotte is the east coast version of Compton.

I've had a few foreign friends though, mostly in high school.

We had this black girl from Scotland. Well, her mom's from Louisiana.

That's....Three stereotypes.

She'll trade haggis for hot wings any day. But she does drink a lot and get into her fair share of brawls.

We've got an Australian too. The most notable thing about her is that she collects sharp pointy objects and voted for Tom and Jerry in the 2008 election.

My idea of Australian stereotypes?

Just making it to tomorrow is a crapshoot. I mean...The most dangerous animals in the world are native to either Australia or the Great Barrier Reef. In other words you have to kill at least five different species just to make it to work alive.

...One question though.

Is Darwin really the middle of nowhere like I think it is?

I had a hard time reading your posts. Are you dissing Australians, or are you one?

Neither.

And this is a thread about stereotypes, ain't it?

Yeah, it is, it's just your post confused me.

[Rainabow]

Apparently I live in grass huts, take a surfboard to school, and live next to the beach.
Also, I supposedly know how to dance Hula and it's all green.

Wow.

[The Real Bail Anwamane]

We live all up in the Alps.
We only eat cheese and chocolate.
We wear Leather pants.
It's always cold.
We all can yodel and play the alphorn.
We are all called Heidi and Peter.


For my part I do not live in the Alps, barely anyone does, but I do love chocolate and cheese.
And I can't yodel nor play the alpenhorn, and my name is definitively not Heidi

[Miah_308]

Rainabow

Apparently I live in grass huts, take a surfboard to school, and live next to the beach.
Also, I supposedly know how to dance Hula and it's all green.

Wow.

Oh you must be from Hawaii too. Yeah a lot of people on gaia thought that about Hawaii, some one even thought that we didn't have electricity which was stupid since I was talking to him over the internet.

[O w h a t s h e r f a c e]

I am culturally ignorant.
I live off of Big Macs.
I'm loud and obnoxious.
I am a Christian extremist.
I'm close-minded and an arrogant a*****e.
America

I say "yo" a lot.
I gel my hair a lot.
I'm a douche.
I drink cawfee.
65 miles per hour means 80.
I know what real pizza tastes like.
New Jersey

I own a convenience store.
I was brought up in poverty.
I'm Muslim and will bomb your a**.
I have a strong, funny accent.
India/Bangladesh/Pakistan

[MingTheCat]

Funky Panda

I live in an igloo.
It is always snowing. Always.
I am very, very polite.
I am a nice and intelligent version of an American.
I love hockey.
Eh.

Canadians are a lot like Americans, really, and our national sport is actually Lacrosse, not hockey. I have never seen a real beaver before in my life, but I have seen moose. We use Celsius, so Americans and other peoples who use Fahrenheit tend to get confused when we say that it's a hot thirty degrees outside in the summer. I don't have an accent like Bob and Doug McKenzie, either, haha.

Oh and I live in a house.

lol! was just what i was going to say. although i have seen a real beaver many times and i have seen a moose. i dont have an accent either. no one i know does. i think that was a fake TV accent really. but i do like to joke to people i meet on gaia about how "we are ruffin' it" in canada and all sorts of other junk.

[Escargot]

X-i-lily-X

We're cheap, stubborn and hard to negotiate with when asking for a lower buying price. We look for bargains but cannot give you one. Our children are smart. They must get over 90% on their report cards or else we spank them. Guess?

中國人！ mrgreen

[Magi_Axi_Ruin]

X-i-lily-X

We're cheap, stubborn and hard to negotiate with when asking for a lower buying price. We look for bargains but cannot give you one. Our children are smart. They must get over 90% on their report cards or else we spank them Guess?

Either Hong Kong, China or Singapore. biggrin

Maybe South Korea but I think they only fall under the "They must get over 90% on their report cards or else we spank them." category.

At least I know Singaporeans fall under the "Looking for bargains" "cheap, stubborn" and "They must get over 90% on their report cards or else we spank them." stereotype. Oh yeah and that Singaporeans are all chinese and we are a sad bunch because we are under a "Draconian rule". Yep, that's the stereotype I hear for my country. And we complain too much.

The good ones are that uhhh...we don't eat chewing gum... gonk