What are the stereotypes of your respective countries?

The Saloon
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[quote=“Mrs Angel Eyes, post:13, topic:1999”])

Silence - Ikea? Beer. Likes to pick on Finns. Feels superior to Norway, hates Denmark. All blonde and beautiful. Spaced-out. No sense of humor.[/quote]

Don’t forget Abba and Volvo

I’d think we’re believed to be relatively shy and quiet?

No sense of humour is Germans not Swedes though

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And it’s not Sweden who hates Denmark, it’s the other way around

Danes only like other Danes, no one else

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THE SWEDISH BIKINI TEAM! 8)

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I’ve heard many many stereotypes. Being a “Mrican”, were “all” descended from Europeans. A bit of my Euro blood tie stereotypes:

  1. Swedish-Beautiful blonde women, like the dark and being alone (true and true fr me).
  2. Dutch-all a bunch of cheap bastards (wish it were true for me :’()
  3. French-stuck up jerks who smoke a lot (probably not entirely true. Certainley not me ::))
  4. English - bad teeth, worse food, dark weather
  5. Spanish cough Royalty cough. Not sure but nobody ever believes me when I tell them I am descended from Spanish royalty and that part is true. During the war between Holland and spain or something, a Dutch relative of mine married a Spanish Prince my family is the far removed result.

Then there’s the Poles and Russians (none of which I have any blood ties) all have skis or skys at the end of there name.

But the simplest stereotypes (not entirely true in order to protect myself as I’m not the one who made it up) would be three things you’ll never see:

an Italian war hero
English cook and
a Polish Nobel Prize winner.

sorry. :-\

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[quote=“Lindberg, post:21, topic:1999”]Don’t forget Abba and Volvo

I’d think we’re believed to be relatively shy and quiet?

No sense of humour is Germans not Swedes though[/quote]

Ah, yes, the subtle differences I missed :smiley:

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[quote=“korano, post:24, topic:1999”]I’ve heard many many stereotypes. Being a “Mrican”, were “all” descended from Europeans. A bit of my Euro blood tie stereotypes:

  1. Swedish-Beautiful blonde women, like the dark and being alone (true and true fr me).
  2. Dutch-all a bunch of cheap bastards (wish it were true for me :’()
  3. French-stuck up jerks who smoke a lot (probably not entirely true. Certainley not me ::))
  4. English - bad teeth, worse food, dark weather
  5. Spanish cough Royalty cough. Not sure but nobody ever believes me when I tell them I am descended from Spanish royalty and that part is true. During the war between Holland and spain or something, a Dutch relative of mine married a Spanish Prince my family is the far removed result.

Then there’s the Poles and Russians (none of which I have any blood ties) all have skis or skys at the end of there name.

But the simplest stereotypes (not entirely true in order to protect myself as I’m not the one who made it up) would be three things you’ll never see:

an Italian war hero
English cook and
a Polish Nobel Prize winner.

sorry. :-[/quote]

So… uh… are you claimant to any title… a.k.a. vast properties and real estate? ;D

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That all U.K people just sit around and drink beer all day…where do they get ideas like that from I wonder.

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*Mrs. Angel Eyes:

Apparently there is a castle around Madrid that belonged to my relatives. Knowhere near my ownership though.

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We in American have NO Stereotypes…

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Being from Canada here are some of our stereotypes:

  1. We live in igloos and it snows year round
  2. We ride the coattails of the Americans
  3. Montrealers are drunks who can’t drive.
  4. “No doot aboot it!”
  5. Vancouver is known as “Hongcouver” because of the high influx of immigrants from hong kong
  6. People from Newfoundland are dimwitted country bumpkins
  7. Toronto is known as “Hogtown” because they supposedly think that the rest of Canada revolves around them.
  8. Canadians are supposedly polite and submissive to a fault.
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But your uninhabited :slight_smile:
You forgot… ‘Canada, America’s Hat’ :slight_smile:

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^LOL, I try really hard not to giggle when Canadians pronounce “about.”

Best Canada Tribute song ever: - YouTube

I’ve never met anyone from Vancouver who wasn’t Chinese :smiley: I thought it was “Chancouver”?

I…I…Idiot, I saved that map immediately.

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[quote=“korano, post:28, topic:1999”]*Mrs. Angel Eyes:

Apparently there is a castle around Madrid that belonged to my relatives. Knowhere near my ownership though.[/quote]

Lots of castles/palaces around Madrid… which one?

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Yes, that’s very odd but I think you’re right. Hate is such a strong word though :slight_smile:

In fact we (the media/politicians what ever) always compare the Danish society to the Swedish one whenever something is ‘rotten’ here (Look at what the Swedes are doing with good result etc.) So we kind of look at the way Sweden is put together as something to aspire to (minus the weak Swedish currency)… Do also notice how Denmark is slowly taking over sports that were Swedish trademarks in the past (Tennis, Tabletennis, Handball, Icehockey)… Don’t think that’s a coincidence for a minute :slight_smile:

That’s not true, we only hate Norwegians and Swedes.

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I can’t believe you left out the most obvious one: All Canadians are toothless hockey players …

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:smiley:
I guess the other way round it hasn`t taste him

All in all its a exception i think.
With beef,pork,chicken and so on the offer of meat should be big enough,but some people gorge nearly anything…but i guess you could find them all over the world.

Maybe there are people among the tourists which ask for it,to claim that they did it ?

Here in Southwest Germany we have a lot of horse butchers
A girlfriend of mine who loves horses eats a meatball one day,unknowingly that its horse meat.She was not excited,when she was told ;D

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oh here’s the absolute worst stereotype from being from NJ

the men look like this:

the women are even worse and look like this:

if that’s not a bad way to go through life I don’t know what is…

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FT, please keep pics of yourself on the dedicated thread :slight_smile:

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At least people know what I look like already - I should have asked permission before posting your family pic Idiot. :wink:

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All the Poles are drunken thieves according to the stereotypes, so excuse me while i go steal some tires from cars trying not to fall down because of my drunken state :wink: