Arrogance?

[PiercedPixie2]

I have a friend ive been talking to via MSN from Denmark.
And at first, i think he thought i was English since on another site, my profile lists me as an Anglophile and with the English flag.

And we hit it off really well as friends, and one night i said i mentioned drought, and he was like 'Drought, in England?' That is when i told him, i was American but my husband is English...and from that point, it changed.


He referred to me as a heathen from 'that' country, and then went on and on about how many flaws America has...Denmark has a high suicide rate for it being a socialist country, its not like Scandinavia is a Utopian area =/

* Has someone belittled you because of what nation you're from?

* How did you deal with it?

 

[Egrus Dam]

Not me, but a chat friend of mine, who is ethnically chinese, was treated like this by some redneck kid, who let the phrase "that's why you sound so retarded" slip. Nonetheless, the girl who owned the chat quickly banned him twisted  

[PiercedPixie2]

Egrus Dam

Not me, but a chat friend of mine, who is ethnically chinese, was treated like this by some redneck kid, who let the phrase "that's why you sound so retarded" slip. Nonetheless, the girl who owned the chat quickly banned him twisted

How do you know he was a redneck?
I am Southern, but do not discriminate :3  

[Egrus Dam]

Simply, I was told so. And I was told that he was Southern. But I know that not all of you are discriminators whee That's also because I joined this guild... I wanna meet other nice people who don't discriminate!  

[RubyLight]

Speaking of the South, I was in Tenessee and one of the hotel staff assumed I was illiterate, because I was from Michigan! gonk
Other than that one exception, I've met alot of nice people down there.  

[Britomartis-the-Valiant]

Surprisingly, no one has belittled me for being from the US, but I suppose that is because the people I meet online from foreign countries are trying to learn or practice English.
Some I've met don't like the USAmerican government at all, but don't think badly of USAmericans in general.

But this reminds me of a friend of mine said. Nowadays he looks for language friends who are learning Arabic because he feels like they don't have a prejudice against Arabs. He said that in the past, he had friends who refused to talk to him after they found out he was an Arab (he's from Algeria).  

[PiercedPixie2]

RubyLight

Speaking of the South, I was in Tenessee and one of the hotel staff assumed I was illiterate, because I was from Michigan! gonk
Other than that one exception, I've met alot of nice people down there.

Ive been to Tennessee, they are so rude x3
I live in Georgia >.>  

[RubyLight]

PiercedPixie2

RubyLight

Speaking of the South, I was in Tenessee and one of the hotel staff assumed I was illiterate, because I was from Michigan! gonk
Other than that one exception, I've met alot of nice people down there.

Ive been to Tennessee, they are so rude x3
I live in Georgia >.>

I was on my way to Georgia. Didn't have a problem there. 3nodding  

[Im A Little Pea]

It happens to me quite often. Most people assume I hate Palestinians and have no problem with killing civilians, when that's absolutely not the case; people would mostly assume I'm very religious, conservative and a nationalist - neither is correct. I don't really mind that so much. Usually I explain that they're wrong, but I don't take it personally. I can see why such an impression could come through. It's completely understandable.

Edit: I also don't mind it because I know I'm exactly the same. I mean, I'm much more tolerant than that and I'd never behave this way, but I'm probably just as ignorant. A few years ago my parents got cables to their TV, and, since I study Arabic, I started watching LBC (a Lebanese channel). Those Pepsi commercials, or programs like "Star Academy" (the Lebanese version to "American Idol") starring girls in little tube-tops and sexy skirts caught me by surprise. It was really a slap to the face. If I'm that ignorant about a country my house nearly borders, I must know so very little about places much, much far away. So how can I be mad?  

[Einllikoach]

PiercedPixie2: that guy must've been really stupid if he didn't noticed you weren't expressing yourself or at least spelling like a Britt.

Anyway, it happens to me to the most of the time: it is either I am blamed for being a murderer and then the conversation ends, or the person I am corresponding with shows an incredible ignorance and dares to argue with me whenever I prove them wrong (well, that rarely happens as I never bother to let such conversation last more than a few more minutes after such turning point).  

[Verderbnis]

* Has someone belittled you because of what nation you're from?

I'm from germany, lots of people pick on us, because they're dumb enough to think we still stab jews into pits (sorry for that formulation). It's always the same s**t by people who can't think for themselves. Other folks are gloryfying themselves because their culture have surpressed x% of the globe during colonial times (I'd see no difference if I'd say "My country has burned x% of europe TWICE, in LESS than 50 years, in one century!").

* How did you deal with it?

First I was upset, but later I learned to ignore it. Everytime I watch comedy and they pick on those old times I get bored, it's a bitter sweet irony, that the european union is one of the positive results of WWII. Ah, anyways screw it, I know about my dues in that case, which are none and Nationality is nothing you can choose so fast, so what's wrong with those people whining?  

[Einllikoach]

Verderbnis

It's always the same s**t by people who can't think for themselves. Other folks are gloryfying themselves because their culture have surpressed x% of the globe during colonial times (I'd see no difference if I'd say "My country has burned x% of europe TWICE, in LESS than 50 years, in one century!").

Good point. neutral  

[Verderbnis]

I don't identify myself with sins of the past and that's what I think is the best way to find something like a national identity, it's quite ahard deal in germany, because WWII destroyed any sense of it, because every attempt of reconstructing it was declared as Nazi-ism.

We have one of the biggest book markets in the world (import and export), our cars are driven all over the world, our doctors save lifes around the globe and our guns fire everywhere, seems like we are stronger than we think.

Well, we should work on that part with the gun, but usually german engineering is really what people tell about it.  

[LadyLoriel]

In my case, it was someone who hated Sweden because it's "homo-friendly" and because of some old suff about vikings and stuff like that.
I myself can't see what is so bad about it, the vikings lived around 1000 years ago so what happend back then doesn't really matter now, so that is something I don't bother much about. But when it comes to the homo-thing, I can't see anything bad about that. I know that it's highly accepted here and that over 75% of the priests in Sweden wouldn't mind gaymarriage. My only point there is that we can't be the only country that have an open mind like that, right? So why hate sweden for that?
I might not know how it is in the USA, but I'm sure there is a lot of open minded people there too. Not to mention other countries. Is it just me that thinks it's weird to hate a country and their people because they have an open mind?

And now I think I should stop ranting.  

[Verderbnis]

Though viking had (even if they were "barbarians") great cultural achievements and a good order of society...

...actually there is no stereotype I can spontaneously pick for swedish people...