What are the stereotypes held by your nation of other peoples?

[Dauphin]

Dance around the handbag

Should I even mention the Essex stereotype.....

Kentish maids are far better IMHO.

[Jac de Molay]

Hi, long time listener, occasional poster...cant resist

Detroit- perceived by the rest of US (and our burbs) as apocalyptic, post-industrial, DMZ that is inhabitated by nothing more than crackheads, hookers, and burned out buildings left over from the 60's riots. Exemplified as the construct for "White flight" across all major Us metropolises. Has seriously been considered as a living museum for the faded Industrial Era. Nothing but cars, cars, cars,

Actually- a lot of it unfortunately true. However, one of the best music scenes and infinite cultural possibilities keep me here despite numerous break-ins and assorted petty crime BS. By the way, we just don't make cars, we make Wonder Bread and Faygo Pop as well...

[Hoek]

American intra-stereotypes:

Geographical (keep in mind that I am white, male, blond-hair, blue-eyes, middle class protestant from New Jersey):

Southerners: Slow-witted biggots and bible-thumpers

Westerners: They all sit on their Ranch porches, stroking their guns

Californians: Fake

Floridians: either old guys or FOB's

West Virginia: Deliverance...(inbred hicks)

New Yorkers: Rude (but not anymore)

stereotypes of foreigners:

Mexicans: short

Canadanians: loggers

French-Canadians: the French X2

French: arrogant, dirty bastards

English: depends on accent. Some accents make British people sound uppity, others sound really dirty (wrong-side of the tracks type of an accent)

Polish: dumb (don't ask me where this came from)

Chinese: good at math...did anyone see that Conan O'Brien skit "I'm bad at math?"

Japanese: really wierd

Aussies: British hicks

[red_jon]

Originally posted by paiktis22
Northen Europeans: passive as cows and washed out like a used cloth (in color)

Americans: stupid as can be, ignorant and incredibly misled

more specifically:

english: gays

turks: brutes, savages, animals

albanians: cutthroats, barbarians, primitives

bulgarians: primitives

germans: naive, easily mislead by rhetorics and crypto nazis

italians: same as us

serbs: brothers

russians: the orthodox connection

french: socialist fighters

scandinavians: lucky bastards

slavs of Fyrom: thieves of history, gypsies


these are the most prominent INMHO.

English : Gays? WTF are you guys on?

[Dauphin]

English : Gays? WTF are you guys on?

Its fitting as we have the stereotype of all Greeks being gay.

[Hobbes]

My stereotypes. (from the view of a British Columbian):

Ontario: Center of the world. Center of the center? Toronto. Not very humorous place. The 'Leafs.

Quebec: The French. They like to 'fool' around (double pun, refers to love for sex and comedy festival) Poutine, traffic, Celine Dion. Doesn't really like Ontario.

Newfoundland: Lazy. Funny talkers. Like fish. No jobs. Seem to like sex, but probably are doing it all wrong.

The rest of the East: Not a lot to say. Hmmm. Anne of Green Gables. Potatoes. Goin' nowhere fast.

Manitoba: Floods. Bugs. No more Jets. They lost to Calgary in football. Louis Reil.

Saskatchewan: Probably spelled it wrong. Lots of crime, apparently. Boring shape (rectangle). Wheat.

Alberta: Cow-people. The Stampede! Lots of dem' fun-da-mentalists. The Oilers and Flames. They beat Manitoba at football.

British Columbia: Home. Hippies (who seem to vote for the Canadian Alliance). 'B' stands for 'Beer' and 'C' stands for 'Coffee'. Forests and mountains. Economically and politically disfunctional. Doesn't really like Ontario.

The North: who knows. I've never been there. I assume it's cold this time of year, and pretty much any time of year.

The U.S.: Funny (laughing at, not with) people. Most nice, some rude, but most dazzled about other cultures, yet want to familiarity of home when travelling abroad. That's why we have MrDicks around the world.

[Thue]

Originally posted by Big Crunch

English : Gays? WTF are you guys on?

Its fitting as we have the stereotype of all Greeks being gay.

Aren't they?