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oregonQuote:
Originally Posted by Taiden
i hang with mostly poor people
they think different and act different
than rich kids or even middle class people
instead of seen things as race or religion
i just see rich and poor
dude.........dude.......... i kinda think the same way, almost. the only difference is i dont like hanging out with religous fanatics. i mean, its cool to chill with somebody thats laid back with it, but otherwise..........Quote:
Originally Posted by friendowl
Awwwww come on, did you read the disclaimer? DEspite the lack of running water, I someday hope to live with the hippies! :D So please unknot your shorts!Quote:
Originally Posted by Taiden
For some odd reason, Maryland has every ethnic minority except Asians. My cousin lives in Seattle, and they're chock full of 'em.
I like Asians, too... :\
actually, in my area, alot of asians...where i work, 17 different cultures thereQuote:
Originally Posted by Purple Banana
First I would like to say that I feel that grose overgernerailizing of any one person based on their place of origin is wrong. I find that there are open-minded people and closed-minded people everywhere. There is some truth in every stero-type, however, some are vestigages from previous eras.
I am from the western sububs of Philadelphia, otherwise known as the main line. it is a very interesting place to grow up, as it is halfway between philly and Lancaster, home to the Amish community. one think i notice about how people from my area are treated is that people in NY think we talk with a southern accent, and people from DC think we speak with a northern accent.
Some of our views of other areas is that nobody outside this area can make a good philly cheese steak, or drive, although we drive like crap in other states, it has something to do with completly different road design, i still dont understand the roads in NJ, thank god they are getting rid of those circles,
pretty much anyone west or south of DC are southern hicks, and blame bible belt mentality for our current international 'sittuation,'
although they fail to realize that anywhere west of pheonixville pa has a small percentage of the population that has at least one confederate flag,
Most of the common view point of people i talk to in this area believe that the rest of the world thionk that americans are fat, lazy slobs, which to a certian percentage is true, however, there there is a much larger percentage of the population in the states that are over achievers that think that they are too fat, when instead, if they were to loose 15 more lbs, they would be considered anorexic.
We gennerally see Brittish as having bad food, although McDonalds does nothing for our reputation. French are cheese munching, wine swilling, surrender monkies... that drown their food in mayonaise. Germans are over anal, leather fetishists.
Italians are just crazy.
As far as the money thing is concerned, anywhere with vast suburban areas will generally generate a lot of overworked bad parents, trying to make up fro their bad parenting by spoilling their already unsupervised kids, but thats a story for another thread...
I live in California.... the land of mix.
Everyone is different in California that you never know where anyones from.
There's not a lot of Californians, as like a smaller state, where peoples ancestors have grown up there since way back when.
We don't really have an identitiy.
It's pretty chill and everybody just does their own thing.
Let me tell you.
Next door to me is a Vietnamese Family, the other side is a Chinese Family, next to them is a Mexican Family, next to them is a Black Family, next to them is really weird white people, and next to them is Mormons. :D And I am white.
I don't know how you describe the typical Californian, except everybody AND their mom is getting stomach bypass surgery (stomach stapling) to loss weight.
I don't really know what that has to do with the topic but oh well....
by this i dont mean i think that asians and cold weather dont mix, other people do.Quote:
Originally Posted by MastaChronic
i just think that james kim + cold weather didnt mix
Heres some blatant stereotypes that ive heard of american people. By the way, i in no way support these statements as true.
New Jersey is a shit hole.
Boston is full of Irish people.
Everyone in California surfs
Everyone in Orange county is beautiful or rich.
Everyone in San Fransisco is gay or a Hippy.
People from Alabama are hillbillys.
People from the Bible Belt are all raving neo conservatists.
Everyone from New York is gangsta, gay, or in the fashion industry.
Philadelphia is a huge Ghetto.
thats all i can think of at the moment. As i said before i dont support any of the steretypes ive listed. Theyre just what spring to mind.
Oh, and Idaho is the most boring place in the world...
No you dont. Anyone who says they dont have any prejudices are lying. It's part of human nature to have prejudice, it's a survival instinct. The trick is realizing that these prejudices exist and using your better judgement to see beyond them, not ignore them completely, because that's impossible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skink
But as for my personal prejudices which I can say thanks to the wonders of internet anonimity:
I think that Europeans are full of themselves
In particualr, the brittish and french and the germans are just wierd.
Jews are assholes unless you personally know them (but they have good weed)
Blacks try to hard to be "cool"
Mexicans are to narrow minded
I dont know many Arab people but they all seem to caught up in their own little world to be realistic.
And I think white people are God's chosen race and will inherit the earth. Just kidding, I think white people in general refuse to step out of their comfort zone no matter what the consequences of staying in the zone are.
And if you disagree, then good for you.
This is actually 100% true... Boston and Holyoke MA have the 2 biggest, most active Irish communities in the States.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kid Dynamite
And it makes for one holy hell of a music scene... If you are ever in Boston, go to Inman square and listen really hard... there's almost always a live band somewhere! I play Irish fiddle myself and try to get out there as much as possible.
Different locations means different attitudes and upbringings. Some if not most regional stereotypes are plausible and in most cases true.
For example, Melbournians are far more fashionable and better looking than Sydneysiders. Myth Confirmed. :p
...it has everything to do with the topic..dude....you nailed it...Quote:
Originally Posted by BigHyphyD
Bostonian: "You have a funny accent, where are you from?"
Me: "Minnesota, originally"
Bostonian: "I'm sorry"
Me: "Have you ever been there?"
Bostonian: "No"
Me: "I'm sorry"
That about sums up what I think of my home and what others think of my home.... "cows, colleges, and contentment"
lol
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Originally Posted by fikusroot
Spoken like a true prejudice...
Wow, Asians in Maryland, whodathunkit?
I love the Asians.
Presumeably you have to know a whole heap of people of different ethnicities personally before you can generalise them altogether. Otherwise, what exactly is prejudice based on other than your knowledge of popular prejudice? Blacks try hard to be "cool"? Because they're in a lot of hiphop music on TV right?Quote:
Originally Posted by fikusroot
No, because there's this group of these ghetto black kids at my school who walk around like theyre the shit and talk brag about how fucked up they are. White people do the same thing, but it's just for attention. It seems like black people do it as a status thing. Now, I know plently of intellectual and genuinely good black people who are some of the most realistic, down to earth people in the world, but it just seems like their definitions of what's cool is so far from the reality of what should be comsidered cool it amazes when the streach themselves to confor to that level. I dont know, may it's because their ideas of whats popular are so far removed from but anyway, that's just what I think when I see these rappers getting famous for making crappy music and when I see this douchebag ganster kid come up to me and tell me out of the blue that he once got cut in a knife fight and that his mom's an alcoholic and expects me to be like "oh my god youre such a hard ass! I wish my life was as fucked up as yours!" I realize I'm kind of rambling but whatever, I felt I needed to validate some of my opinions.
im from south england and it has been said that all americans are yanks all yanks are fat and often pussys, french are dirty, black people are strong all chinese people are black belts and eat cats and all ppl from north england are 'DIRTY NORTHEN BASTARDS' lol but the thing bout up north is more of a friendly rivalry than anythink else one song ive herd is 'you go to the pub and you have a pint dirty northen bastards then you go back home and you beat the wife dirty northen bastards'.
those of us who reside at the pole consider the coastal inhabitants to be indolent and slovenly. we seldom deign to speak to or even acknowledge these inferior miscreants.
Well. Here in Cork City Ireland. We think:
Everyone in Dublin is a gimp.
Anyone from Limerick will stab you.
Anyone from Kerry is a sheepshagger married to their brother.
Everyone from anywhere else in Ireland is a cultchie.
And how Cork is the real capital city of Ireland, and how the real hero's of Ireland are Corkonians and how we have the best sports teams, athletes blah blah.
In Cork city.
A norrie (north sider) will rob you.
A south sider is posh.
errr, all i can think of.
Now, for me being born in Dublin, and being brought up mainly in Kildare. I think it's all a load of balls and most people from Cork are up themseves. Lmao.
(No offence world)
Most of Ireland thinks:
Americans are fat.
English owe us after 800 years yadayadaya.
Protestants are tight asses. Usually called "Basil" lmao.
Refugees are getting too much in this country.
Eastern Europeans are taking our jobs.
Germans are robots.
Chinese make good curry chips.
My apologies to anyone that may take offense to that. Not my own personal beliefs.
I think a lot of Ireland is still only getting used to other cultures and races living here. :o
im from northern california. we think that people from so cal are fake for the most part
Texan.
I drive a 4wd 4 door F250 diesel.
I 4wheel in a toyota with a chevy smallblock.
I have ridden a horse ten times longer(as in time in the saddle) than I have a bicycle.
I say "sumbitch"
I say "gawd damn"
I say "pieceshit"
I say "ain't" alot
I drink Natty Light - The Cadillac of Beers.
I drink Sunny Brook and coke.
I've gutted hundreds of deer.
If it has 4 legs and it can be found in texas, i have probably shot it.
I've hit a tree waterskiing on a river.
My best friend's name is Bubba.
I graduated with 40 people.
I didn't have a neighbor until I was 16.
My first boat was a 12 ft john boat with a 15 horse Nissan outboard
My sister is a New Haven Yale liberal.
New Mexico is the homeland of crazies. (i have new mexico plates on my car, so im not just bashing.
California is fake, but their pot is good.
Florida - old people.
New Jersey - it smells.
New York - you can smell new jersey there.
England - people would be frightned if i showed them my SKS.
Arkansas - I have personally seen numerous inbred families while working in central arkansas. Alot of stuff goes on there that people don't talk about.
From Los Angeles
I see all kinds of different people, I know people from all over the fucking world.
I am not a racist, but I make fun of my friends because of their race because it's all in good fun and if you cant take a joke then too fucking bad you pussy!
From my experiences, alot of the stereotypes are true, or at least seem to be
Mexicans steal
Black people try to be all hard and shit when they wear expensive clothing and have bling bling or w/e
Asians are smart
White people dress nice, are tanned (fake or real, doesn't matter), dye their hair, spend most of their time at the gym, and try to copy the other races in a desperate attempt to have a culture
Gay people are very trendy
The majority of people I know hate Texas for numerous reasons, and European people are pretty much always welcome in LA
In my fullest, most honest opinion, you will be welcome by everybody in LA if you wear nice, expensive clothing and spend alot of money on dumb shit. Happens to me all the time.
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Originally Posted by couch-potato
Can you tell me why? I am a proud Texan. I don't understand why people have a dislike for texans. Personally I think we are really friendly. We tell stories, we lie alot in them too. We drink and party and aren't afraid to get down.
I don't have anything against Texans, but stereotype is that they're hicks, arrogant, overly proud of being cowboys, think that just because they are a big state that makes them cool, butcher the English language with shit from a redneck dictionary ( I admit I do hate that, but Texas isn't the only one) and just the typical southern stuff...