Stereotypes of where you're from?

Honestly, I like Kaiser's post better than mine, because it's so much funnier and, well, it's Kaiser.

 

I'm from East London and people think anyone with a Cockney Accent is a chav.

 

Not only do we live in igloos, dog sleds and snowmobiles are the only transportation available. (To be totally honest...I have seen a fair few blizzards where snowmobile is the only way to travel.)

Okay you don't like hockey, but you have played it.

Everyone goes to Tim's for a double double, probably at least twice a day. (Ew coffee)

We all speak French.

We say 'aboot' and 'eh'.

Now specifically I'm from near the GTA so:
I'm a hipster.
I must be completely okay with everyone and 100% PC all the time, genuinely.
I must be a horrible driver.
I must believe that the worst drivers in Canada are from Quebec.

 

My city:

- We have a ton of crime

- We're all drug dealers

- We're one of the worst polluted cities in Canada

- We're very nice

The reality of it:

- The crimes committed here are mainly robbery. Still bad but some people (no names) try makes us out to be these terrible thugs that'll kick your ass if you smile at us the wrong way. You just have to know where to walk at different times.

- Not all of us are, but there are quite a few people living here who are drug dealers. Most aren't aggressive because they know better than to sir things up.

- One of them (apparently) but personally, Fort St. John is a lot worse than us and they were listed pretty low.

- I wouldn't say very nice. Nice to an extent but still pretty rude.

 

I'm from the Chicago area, which means I like hot dogs and pizza.

Fuck yes, I love hot dogs and pizza.

REAL pizza.


And NO KETCHUP on that dog!

 

Well, in our school there is a whole stereotype thing about the suburb I live in that we are all drug dealers, druggies and bogans. And also a lot of crime Which isn't completely true. There have only been 3 different drug dealers on my friends street and a couple of arrests! XD

Well I think everyone thinks that Australian that live on the coast are really beachy but most of us are not.
We are all gorgeous!
No, we don't ride kangaroos to school, people need to shut up about it.
Yes, there are snakes and spiders everywhere. Oh, did I mention they are normally all dangerous?
Not everyone like Vegemite, but we don't mention those people...
I have NEVER seen a shrimp or prawn on a BBQ, no one does that where I live.

 

I like clogs, cheese and tulips. However, I think the stereotype that Dutchies are greedy also applies to me (in terms of money).

 

Russia at all
1) Endless eternal winter
2) Beautiful woman (?) ( I don't sure it wasn't invented by Russians)
3) Bears
4) Ballet
5) Gloomy faces
6) Good programmers
7) Everyone has a dashboard camera
8) And, of course, homophobia
My city in particular
1) Half of habitants are sailors
2) There are a lot of immigrants
3) Damn cold nord-ost wind
4) Good but narrow roads
5) Cement dust everywhere

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Really? I have never heard this stereotype. It's interesting.

 

I'm from Yorkshire, so...
Wear flat caps and own whippets
Stingy
Stubborn and argumentative
Never bother saying 'the' (so we go t'shops instead of going to the shops, which a lot of us do to be fair)

And I'm from a large northern city, so I'm most likely a chav, criminal, poor and taking at least one illegal substance (well they're half right LOL).

 

A lot of stereotypes of California focus on northern California, all hipsters and douches and uber liberals. People who wear expensive shoes with no socks. Well, I have seen that in SoCal, actually. Los Angeles has the stereotype of being essentially the New York of the west coast.

 

As an Italian I should have a bunch of siblings, adore my hundred of small, hairy, loud, tanned relatives, have pasta and pizza daily using a red and white table cloth and sing "o sole mio" with my mafious neighbours every Sunday when we all have dinner at my father's "mamma".
Well, I do have pasta everyday, so I guess that's kind of true, but that's pretty much it. Stereotypes are just silly!

 

Rochester, NY:

1. The Rochester "a"...very nasal
2. Our hot dogs are white...we have red one's too, but natives eat the white ones
3. We've a very self-satisfied bunch, one could say smug
4. Our grocery store, Wegman's, beats every other store hands down - Dean & Deluca, Whole Foods - all poor cousins.
5. Very, very cultured
6. very, very educated
7. One only works in town or partakes of nightlife in town
8. Everyone plays golf and belongs to a club
9. We consume a lot of "garbage plates" - hots or hamburgers over French fries, mac salad or beans, covered in yellow mustard, hot sauce (a type of spiced meat sauce) and onions...originally eaten as a hangover preventative or cure
10. Buffalo and Syracuse are our ugly step-sisters with NYC as the wicked step-mother
11. We've the most dysfunctional state government.
12. Winter is a 6 month affair.
13. After golf, horses are our big thing
14. Sport Anglophiles on the amateur level- big into soccer, rugby, cricket
15. A crumbly inner-city, that those of us in the suburbs ignore
16. The last bastion of Republicans that have not drunk the Kool-Aid of the conservatives and the Tea Party
17. We claim the Finger Lake region as our own.
18. Nobody shops in town; we prefer to shop for our clothes in Toronto, NYC, Boston, DC...we travel a lot.

 

Quebec, yeah!

I must be:

-complaining all the time!
-bad in English!
-racist
-hate all English speakers
-preach about independence 24/7
-love maple syrup
-dumb
-bad at school

Most of those stereotypes are from the English provinces, actually.

 

Norwesters are supposed to wear a lot of flannel, dress up in jeans, drink coffee and microbrews, and smoke weed. Well, some of it is true, anyway.

 

Wales...:
I shag sheep
I own a herd of sheep
I play rugby
I get drunk a lot
I have unprotected sex
I'm a chav
I can't talk properly
I'm thick as shit

There are others but this is all I can think of at the top of my head...

 

Good ol' PA (pronounced Pee-ay)
1. We're all Amish
2. It's either Pat's or Geno's (I prefer neither..)
3. Either Sheetz or WaWa (Sheetz is best.)
4. Everyone from Pittsburgh says yinz, crick, and pop (you guys, creek, soda)
5. EVERYTHING IS HAUNTED
6. Did I mention everyone is Amish?
7. Germans. Germans everywhere.
8. Amish Mafia
9. Let's just not plow the roads when it snows
10. Intercourse...Blue Ball...Bird in Hand...Virginville
11. HERSHEY!!!!!!! Chocolate and park
12. Everyone has had a near miss with a deer
13. Amish.
14. Haunted.

 

I only drink tea
I wear a bowler hat
I speak in a brummie accent
I'm dumb

 

I have played floor hockey, does that count? I say "eh" a lot too and hell yes to Tim Hortons Timbits ftw!

 

Canadians are a fake friendly, I've learnt this. At least in the Greater Toronto Area, people from big cities generally are douchier.

It because they're from an area where there are tons of people so giving a shit about others isn't as important as a small town or low populated area because your actions in a small town will come back to haunt you. Be rude to someone in the city and you may never see them again.

That's just my experience, I find Toronto very cold, douchey and full of inflated egos. Yes there are good people there, but I would not stereotype Canadians as friendly because the majority live in big cities and majority don't give two shits about you.

One stereotype about the area I'm from is that

everyone from Toronto area thinks Toronto is much more important and culturally significant than it actually is.

Toronto is a boring ass city, with no character and charm; Ive been all over Toronto from delivering furniture there for over 5 years.

Toronto literally has nothing special going for it, can't think of a single unique thing about that sterile concrete pad.

I've literally never met people from such a bland city that are so blind to it.

I know the rest of Canada agrees with this, that's why everybody hates Toronto who isn't from it.