Stereotypes of where you're from?

Your mother is correct, people here are indeed stereotyped as aggressive. Other stereotypes from Puerto Rico are:

-Listens to reggeaton music
-Aggressive (as NingyoBroken said) and highly badmouthed
-Uneducated
-Patriotic to an extreme
-Drug dealers, thugs, and other things related to that
-All men are macho
-Treat women as trash
-Female are usually seen as sluts
-They get pregnant, many times, to be maintained by the government (sadly this is incredibly common)
-We talk a lot about politics but we have no knowledge about what we are saying
-Highly conservative religious

Not bad things:

-We can dance merengue, bachata and salsa without effort, or just about everything
-Highly hospitable
-Treat close friends as family (call them brother or sister)
-We wear a "pava" and use "playeras"
-We talk as if we are singing
-We go to beaches a lot
-We are always partying and use whatever excuse to take a day off
-We love to celebrate everything

Those are some rather common ones we have here. Just so you know, I don't really fit them. Maybe the one about celebrating everything, the way we talk, the treating friends as family, and I'm not that bad of a dancer.

 

I'm originally from Sicily, so:

-We all fucking love pasta
-Pizza too
-Wine! Wine! WINE!
-Get the olives, we need to gorge ourselves
-Foodies. We're all foodies. And chefs.
-Hello, Mafia!
-Eat a LOT
-All the men are hot, right?
-All the women are pretty hot too, RIGHT?

(Most of these also apply to Italy)
(please note I didn't live there for long- but this is what I can remember from that short time )

And now, I live in the Southern United States, soooo:

-Very close-minded down here, yup!
-Republicans.
-White people, they're all white people (with the exception of Florida)
-Fat n' Sweaty
-We all love fast food
-For those who live within at least 5 miles from the beach- We love the beach (I actually hate it a lot)
-The white people are either bronze or paper tanned
-Everyone else? Where?
-AIRPLANES
-SUNSHINE (sorry, more rain than shine.)
-Everyone lives in condos or apartment flats
-Cheap beer. Cheap beer for all.

(admittedly, some of the American ones are true... sadly)

 

Haha, yeah..

Wikipedia on Dutch Book:

Wikipedia on Going Dutch:

And there are more of these. XD :lol:

Some others:

- Dutch people are often stoned and/or do drugs
I'm not aware of it being very common, but I do know that there's no / not much shame about the subject here. Admitting you smoke marijuana is no big deal here (amongst friends, in my experience)

- Dutch people are giants
Well.. We are in fact on of the tallest in the world on average, that's true.

- Dutch people have many bikes / The country has many bicycles
It's true, in my experience, I owned 3 bikes (one got stolen) and our family has many bicycles. This one is true.

- Dutch people are good at languages
Hm, hm. We like to think we speak English well, but often the pronunciation is a bit odd. Mine is definitely not that well (although it's not Dutch, it's just bizarre) XD

- Dutch people are very tolerant
The first country to legalise gay marriage.. I'd say we are tolerant (relatively speaking), but it can be better. :icon_bigg


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Since I live near Rotterdam, there are some others in addition:

- We hate Amsterdam / Amsterdam is our rival
Sadly, it IS a fact that there is quite some rivalry between Rotterdam and Amsterdam, which is very apparent in our soccer/football games. It depends on the person. I don't have anything against Amsterday, but we have to admit that Rotterdam is better. :lol:

- We are vocal, have no shame and are foul-mouthed
I'd say this is quite true. Sure, it doesn't apply to all, but we are quite vocal and don't have shame (easily). About the foul-mouthedness... We tend to argue by calling each other names of diseases (cholera for instance) and calling friends idiotic (or imbecile) is not frowned upon much. And the insults can go way worse when people insult with cancer, which is something many dislike completely. Especially since some use those things for almost everything. Where some would say "Open the f#cking door", some would use cancer here. It's considered extremely vulgar though.

- We speak "Rotterdam"
True, we have our own dialect. No matter whether we like it or not, we do use distinct words and have a pronunciation that is distinguishable from others. At least I've been asked "Are you from Rotterdam?" several times (when not in Rotterdam). :lol:

 

i'm a hippie depressed tree hugger then i wish i was more green honestly

 

Rich
Spoiled
Entitled
Jaded
Throw in a dash of racist too since my town's almost 100% white

 

Maryland...
*We all eat crabs and/or some other seafood
*If you're from Baltimore, it's likely you've witnessed some heinous crime. (Where I am from)
*If you're from Western MD, you're likely abhorrently racist and/or homophobic. Generally like much of the south and Appalachia. You probably hate the rest of the state too.
*We can't tell if we're southern or northern.
*"Hon"
*Our accent, which is an odd blend of a southern one and one from Philadelphia.
*Generally very LGBT+ friendly and open in general (Well, of course with the exception of Western Maryland like said before...)

 

Wisconsin!

Beer
Cheese
Obesity
Goiters
Alcoholism
Hicks

 

I'm from Asia


I guess ....
- I consume mostly rice
- I always like to study

 

I'm from Seattle so I OBVIOUSLY...
1) Smoke weed.
2) Am a radical liberal.
3) Go to Starbucks everyday.
4) Only wear heavy rain gear.
In reality we do actually have sunny days here (crazy to believe I know), Starbucks doesn't have very good coffee, and most people I know (including me) don't smoke weed (although people that do are becoming more open about it), and just like everywhere else Seattle has it's percentage of conservatives.

 

I don't think Floridians have a lot of stereotypes, other than the generic southerner ones or being able to stare at a hurricane coming at us and laugh like Simba from The Lion King. Mostly we're a tourism state so see people from other places hehe.

And this is totally true for not just girls sometimes:

 

Rich, conservative, country club white kids. When my high school basketball team plays, the opposing student section's theme is always "preppy."

 

Right, I live in the South:
-Everyone is overweight and diabetic
-You can't order Unsweet Iced Tea, it's just Mega-Sweet Iced Tea
-We all love fast food
-Everyone says "y'all"
-Older women will call you "Honey" or "Sweetie"
-We are all Baptists
-We are all racist, homophobic hillbillies

More specifically I live in North Carolina:
-We hate South Carolina
-We all love College Sports
-Every North Carolinian thinks they know what the best BBQ is (Hello, it's Lexington-style!!)
-We eat biscuits with every meal
-Cheerwine is the best thing ever
-The only Southern state where Pepsi is king over Coke (Seriously if you order a Coke, you will get funny looks and will be told "We have Pepsi"
-We have the best doughnuts (cough cough, Krispy Kreme, cough cough)
-We all own pick-up trucks or we wish we did
-We are all rednecks with buck teeth
-We have a terrible education system
-We bleed either Blue or Red
-When it snows half an inch, it's an apocalypse
-NASCAR is not a sport, it's a lifestyle
-If you live in Charlotte you work in the Financial Sector (Hey, we are the second largest financial centre in the US after New York) or for US Airways (one of the biggest employers the in QC)

 

Dont forget the water thingy, if there is a problem with water anywhere in the world the dutch can fix it.

The dutch are very stingy
not true

When you live near rotterdam you are a fan of the local soccer club called feyenoord
and if you live near Amsterdam you have to hate them because you have to be a fan of ajax then..

I used to live near amsterdam.

we have coffeeshops on every corner of the street
actually in amsterdam when you go into the center of the city it's true..

in amsterdam is the gay city of holland
So not true, the center is but outside of the center Amsterdam is just a normal city with a lot of intolerant people...

 

Yeah, you are right about the water! We are specialised in building levees / dikes / stopbanks. Stingy.. It does apply for some, but not for all indeed. :lol:

And yeah, the whole Amsterdam versus Rotterdam is mostly due to soccer/football I guess.

Amsterdam has coffee shops everywhere. For those who don't know, it's about selling cannabis (and the like). They are known as cannabis coffee shops in English. And you're definitely right about Amsterdam not being the gay capital of the Netherlands, although it does host the annual Gay Pride (and in special the Canal Parade). :icon_bigg

 

once a year it's fun in amsterdam indeed, i like to see all the different people being who they really are. It's sad though that on the other days there is a lot of violence against lgbt people too. especially when you go out of the city center..

 

guys I'm from Virginia so obviously I wanna get in my truck and go huntin' chew A LOT of dip, and I'm super racist and homophobic.

 

well in my case of Southeastern Europe:

* My dream is to move to england and steal their wallets (or do the same in Paris...).
* I am a homophobic racist gypsy who lives on benefits (in belgium, germany etc.).
* I speak russian and like putin and our alphabet exists thanks to russia.

Fun thread though

 

Oh.. I don't really know, but these are some thing I've heard.
I'm from Sweden so I must be:
Long
Blonde
Blue-eyed
Thin
Stiff (Can you say that? Ah, who cares)
Shy
Boring
Pretty

Uhmm... yeah as I said I don't really know :/
But here in Sweden, because I come from where I come I must be cheap and a farmer... Stereotypes are weird y'all

 

Don't forget that we can't speak English, we're communist and all we can do is clean houses and drive taxis. :dry: