Regional Stereotypes (International Posters Please!)

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Originally Posted by Skink

I think this topic Wreaks of prejudice,,,I honestly consider everyone equal...

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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.
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.

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Originally Posted by Kid Dynamite

Boston is full of Irish people.

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This is actually 100% true... Boston and Holyoke MA have the 2 biggest, most active Irish communities in the States.
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

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Originally Posted by BigHyphyD

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....

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...it has everything to do with the topic..dude....you nailed it...

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

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.
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.

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Spoken like a true prejudice...

Wow, Asians in Maryland, whodathunkit?

I love the Asians.

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Originally Posted by fikusroot

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.
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.

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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?

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'.