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Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: Jome on August 28, 2004, 06:29:05 PM
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After the dumbass Jake made a a fool (http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=57545.25) out of himself in the American stereotypes discussion, I would like to hear what stereotypes Americans have of Europeans..
American stereotypes have been discussed enough, no America discussion in this thread!!
So Americans, (Non-Europeans outside U.S. may also reply) what's your stereotype impression of these countries:
U.K.
France
Germany
Russia
Spain
Italy
Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark)
Holland & Belgium
Eastern countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, etc.)
A short description is enough, blank if you have no knowledge on certain parts.
No off-topic, for one times sake.
ster·e·o·type Audio pronunciation of "stereotype" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (str--tp, stîr-)
n.
1. A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
2. One that is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
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After the dumbass Jake made a a fool (http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=57545.25) out of himself in the American stereotypes discussion, I would like to hear what stereotypes Americans have of Europeans..
American stereotypes have been discussed enough, no America discussion in this thread!!
So Americans, (Non-Europeans outside U.S. may also reply) what's your stereotype impression of these countries:
U.K.
France
Germany
Russia
Spain
Italy
Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark)
Holland & Belgium
Eastern countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, etc.)
A short description is enough, blank if you have no knowledge on certain parts.
No off-topic, for one times sake.
ster·e·o·type Audio pronunciation of "stereotype" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (str--tp, stîr-)
n.
1. A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
2. One that is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
UK - bad teeth
France - pussies
Germany - The woman are built like men
Russia - Commies
Spain - none
Italy - none
Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark) - Girls from sweden are easy
Holland & Belgium - none
Eastern countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, etc.) - none
thats not what i believe but just what i heard... cept the french one lol. My aunt lived in france since she was 20 an now shes like 60. One x-mas she sent me a toy pony for x-mas. I was like ummm i dunno what the guys in france play with but i sure aint into that lol.
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U.K. - Bad teeth. Funny accent.
France - Assholes
Germany - Zey eat za bratverst and drink ze beer. And zey yell a lot.
Russia - Commies
Spain - Spanish?
Italy - Greasy and hairy
Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark) - Windmills, Vikings. Wooden Shoes.
Holland & Belgium - Chocolate & Pancackes
Eastern countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, etc.) - Unkrainian Eggs! lol
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U.K. - Hows my Teef Guvna?
France - Surrender Monkeys
Germany - Stanky
Russia - Vodka Drinkers
Spain - none.
Italy - Womanizers
Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark) - Blonde supermodels
Belgium - Hitler used them to FUCK France
Eastern countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, etc.) - swimmers look like men because of steroid use.
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Russia - Vodka Drinkers
no thats true... ;D
plus how can u call Russia Commies, and not Ukranians... ???
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Germany - Zey eat za bratverst and drink ze beer. And zey yell a lot.
LMAO!!!
UK - The teeth
France - They're wimps
Germany - Really strong women
Russia - Communists
Spain - "Don't they speak Mexican?"
Italy - Mafia
Scandinavia - ???
Holland - Wooden shoes
Eastern countries - They're all powerful like that one dude in Rocky
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U.K. : football hooligans with bad teeth
France:pussys
Germany: angry beer drinking sausage eating Nazis (that's the stereotype)
Russia:none
Spain:none
Italy:none
Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark):Vikings
Holland & Belgium:Nazi speedbumps
Eastern countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, etc.): countrys more fucked up than ours
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U.K. - ugly
France - woman have under arm hair
Germany - rich and racists
Russia - Drunks and poor
Spain - My kind of ppl!
Italy - Sexy women, gay men
Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark) - just like canada
Holland & Belgium - drugies
Eastern countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, etc.) - poor por people
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Don't know or have any stereotypes about anybody in europe, I usually aren't aware the countries exist until someone that lives in one of them says something on the board or such, lol. I don't watch or listen to the news, either, so usually I never hear about Europe.
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U.K. - Fags
France - Anti-American Pussies
Germany - Nazi, beer lovers, dirty people
Russia - Poor Commies
Spain - None
Italy - Rude Assholes and Pizza
Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark) - Windmills, Vikings. Wooden Shoes.
Holland & Belgium - Chocolate and quiet people
Eastern countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, etc.) - There are russians
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i think the UK have ugly woman idk why its just the girls i see on TV prolly I'm sure there is beautiful woman...
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i don't know how i was made a fool when you're the one who think america is one big bad ghetto where we go around killing each other religiously.....i broke down all the bad places in the US and told you that they wern't that bad. the only fool here is you. ::hands jome a tampax tampon :: here jomey i can see you've started your period
anyways back to the topic
the English: place with a bajillion magazines lthat are similar to the Enquier, bad teeth, pale skin, stuck up
the french: feminine, very metrosexual, hairy , smelly, smoke a lot, obsessed with art and Jerry Lewis
the germans: Militant, Loud, racist, love techno, robotic
countries like denmark, and sweden and netherlands....cold , full of happy go lucky blonde people
Italy: laid back, love to eat pudgy, obsessed with sports cars
Spain: Obsessed with catholic churches
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I had one already written, I guess it never appeared.
U.K. - proper people, gentlemen. Royality is very high thought of, and people don't like to get dirty because it would force them to bath. The Irish are drunk Catholics who like to talk shit about the British well drunk.
France - Snotty people that like to have oral sex. LOL, I read a book about a different culture, and they thought it was weird the French like oral sex. Also, they hate Americans, including Latin Americans, and they feel they are better than anyone.
Germany - Germany is a place where the men are menly men, and so are the women. Lots of beer, and people know about great cars.
Russia - Cold, cold as hell. I mean colder than a mother-in-laws cold stare. People are drunk, and dancing to Tetris music. The men are huge, steriod using monsters, and the women are fine as fuck.
Spain - Catholic central. The guys all think they are Don Juan, and the women are just hot as hell.
Italy - Same as Spain, except that they have better artist and culture. Were Spain trys to be the shit, Italy is the shit. From the mob family's, to the pope, to the Roman ruins Italy is just the fuckin shit.
Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark) - Cold, lots of fields and farms, and green when there is no snow. Not many people, but the ones that are there are borderline Communist. In case of war, they defend themselves with hockey sticks.
Holland & Belgium - Waffells. Lots of green, and waffells, and forrest and stuff like that. Did I mention waffells.
Eastern countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, etc.) - Unstable. War, people hating each other. People have no clue what to do with freedom after so many years of others ruling them. Industral hell, as there are tons of factories from the Soviet days, but not enough leadership to run the place. Don't get too close of you might get shot.
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U.K. - Only Sterotype that pops into my head is Austin Powers
France - Hairy Pitts For the Girls, Berrette Wearing guys who paint pictures and sing with little guitars
Germany - Sausage loving, beer drinking people....they also love the month of Oktober
Russia - Very cold people, the woman are prostitutes who want to marry someone in america so they could take their money....the men are cold people who supported
Spain - um, they hate mexicans and philipinos, even though they created those races...i dunno
Italy - Pope, Um Spaghetti spaghetti, Pizza, They All Remind Me Of Super Mario
Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark) - They Wear Wooden shoes And Dance in skirts and pigtails and everyone is blond hair blue eyes
Holland & Belgium - Bunch of pothead sex maniacs & Drug addicts
Eastern countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, etc.) - Just Like Russia
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U.K. - Bad teeth, talk with gay accent, kind people.
France - Assholes, pussies, love sex, hate Americans & Jews.
Germany - Racist, crazy about trance, talk loud.
Russia - Love drinking (especially Vodka), big guys, cute chicks.
Spain - Another form of Hispanic people, Catholic.
Italy - Mafia, pizza & pasta lovers, quiet people.
Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark) - Fine ass blond chicks, very sexual.
Eastern countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, etc.) - Poor countries, not vacation spots.
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i don't know how i was made a fool when you're the one who think america is one big bad ghetto where we go around killing each other religiously.....
ROFL.
I pointed out the obvious fact that there is more weapons and crime in U.S. than in e.g. Europe, is that when I called America on big bad ghetto.. ?
Lmao, you're killing me, and obviously yourself too. :laugh:
I think it's safe to say after reading this topic (Btw, pure comedy, thanks ;D) that Europeans have a much more realistic view of America, then Americans have of Europe, not that I was expecting else though.. especially STRONG BAD'S list was hilarious.. :D ;D
However, unlike Jake, I do understand that this is STEREOTYPES, and not personal opinion, I just didn't think the European stereotypes was THIS crazy..
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i still don't get how i'm the fool here
you're the one basing your view of america on some stereotypes, then contradicting yourself by saying you know the differences between stereotypes and real life. wtf!? Also you're saying that we all BELIEVE all the stereotypes of europeans. I've been to quite a few of those countries and can say that these are PARTLY true. You , correct me if i'm wrong, have not travled all of america yet have some blind belief of how this nation is. I simply told your ass how it was in compton, detroit, and New York City....because i've actually been to most of these gun affluent areas america, and quite frankly Jome it's not even 90% as basd as they make it out to be in Boys in the Hood, Menece II Society, and Colors. The only person being ignorant and falling for stereotypes is you jome. if you seriously think what lloyde banks says on record is 100% true i truely feel sorry for you and your sense of reality.
you know what i think is funny?
when ignorant Europeans try to tell us how things in the US are because of what their media and their rap records tell them when you have people like me and tom who live in these places that rappers talk about and and DARE to tell us we're wrong and that WE"RE the ones being controlled by the media!
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you're the one basing your view of america on some stereotypes
That's where you got it twisted in the first place.
I'm telling you the American stereotype, which doesn't necessarily have ANYTHING at all to do with my own view/opinion.
well so do white people as being robotic souless racists, so do germans as being militant angry nazi's, so do asians as being rice eating samari sword throwing kung fu fighters
Is this a Latin (Or whatever the fuck you are) stereotype of white people, or is this your own views/opinions/prejudices.. ??
In both cases, you're FAR worse than me, you're judging a whole a race, that would make WHO the racist... ??
I simply told your ass how it was in compton, detroit, and New York City....because i've actually been to most of these gun affluent areas america, and quite frankly Jome it's not even 90% as basd as they make it out to be in Boys in the Hood, Menece II Society, and Colors.
And who said it was in the first place... ???
When did I describe U.S. as a shootout/riot area.. please show me, I must have missed it myself.
And it sure as hell isn't Europeans making these movies, music or painting these pictures.. everybody knows it's fiction based on the truth, so don't blame our media, movies, music or news coverage, that's the worst explanation so far.
But STILL, you don't have to look at many statistics to see that weapon crimes are a lot higher in U.S. than in Europe, you CAN NOT deny it.
you know what i think is funny?
when ignorant Europeans try to tell us how things in the US are because of what their media and their rap records tell them when you have people like me and tom who live in these places that rappers talk about and and DARE to tell us we're wrong and that WE"RE the ones being controlled by the media!
OUR rap records, and our media is to blame... ?? (http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0304/lachen/laughing-smiley-014.gif)
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that's right when you sit down at night and watch your news and believe that all the images on tv about americans being gun totting maniacs , then listening to your copy of Doggystyle to reinforce those misconceptions.
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Yeah, that's what I do.
First I listen to Doggystyle, then some NWA, then add a small dose of "Bangin' on wax", before I watch some Michael Moore docu's.
Then I turn on the news programme called "Violence in America, daily report", and then I form my opinion on how U.S. is like.
Great work Sherlock. ::)
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...and if you go around thinking that's how america is then i feel bad for you .
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And then late at night, I watch stuff like "American Teen #53" or "College Sweethearts 77".
Thereby, I automatically assume that all American girls are hookers.
You didn't get the sarcasm, did you.. ?
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and obviously you didn't catch my sarcasm....
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Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark)
last time i checked Finland was in scandinavia too, props man ::) that already tells somethin about u ::) ???
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^wow jome isn't very liked is he?
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last time i checked Finland was in scandinavia too, props man ::) that already tells somethin about u ::) ???
Some Americans think Finland is the capital in Sweden, that's why I didn't include it. :D ;D
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last time i checked Finland was in scandinavia too, props man ::) that already tells somethin about u ::) ???
Some Americans think Finland is the capital in Sweden, that's why I didn't include it. :D ;D
yea ok, or u skipped too many geography classes at school.. anyways no problem man..good topic overall.
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last time i checked Finland was in scandinavia too, props man ::) that already tells somethin about u ::) ???
Some Americans think Finland is the capital in Sweden, that's why I didn't include it. :D ;D
yea ok, or u skipped too many geography classes at school.. anyways no problem man..good topic overall.
you are from finland I assume :D .. it oughta feel bad to be forgotten by one man of ones own kind.. hatred is one thing you can deal with.. but being forgotten and not cared about is def worse..