"American" steriotypes

[Ecofarm]

Phil, spare me the ancient history. Euro was no less brutal in its early expansions and wars than the US was. They were barbaric times, get over them and join us in the present.

Anyway, I bet there are as many people speaking Cherokee (sp) as there are people speaking goth (or whatever language that supposedly is).


Thanks for the update on what that guy said (even if you made fun of me in the process). Flemish, Welsh... wth is the difference. Sounds like some pasty boat-happy euro-clan to me, eitherway. Are they both not pasty and boat-happy? Wussified vikings, right? Note: I could be wrong here, but seeing as Phil can explain the truth of US multi-culturalism I figure I can explain the Welsh or Flemish or whatever.

and really, make a post in one go. you are being annoying.

Nope, not gonna happen. Ignore me if you want, or learn not to jump on my first words because you are unlikely to understand until I work to make myself more clear. You just wait over there with the other non-english native speakers and wait till I'm done, nodplzthx.

 

[philippe]

Phil, spare me the ancient history. Euro was no less brutal in its early expansions and wars than the US was. They were barbaric times, get over them and join us in the present.

Anyway, I bet there are as many people speaking Cherokee (sp) as there are people speaking goth (or whatever language that supposedly is).


Thanks for the update on what that guy said (even if you made fun of me in the process). Flemish, Welsh... wth is the difference. Sounds like some pasty boat-happy euro-clan to me, eitherway.

Welsh, come on, it's common knowledge they are in the UK. Meh, i guess i thought you were more-traveled.

Oh, europe was brutal alright, and a lot of linguistic treasures are lost. we could have had a lot more sources to reconstruct indo-european proto-language. (beethoven 9th while studying that is so fitting ) and i think it's a miss honestly.

just look at the niceness of this 6th centruy sentence: maltho thi afrio lito
(i call you, i free you, serf (or halffree one)) (would be fitting for you )

so, i'm thinking assimilation politics should be very carefully executed and only with the free will of the population involved.

Of course I have mixed opinions on this regarding immigration, but yes multilanguism is a way better language-adaption then just monolinguism.

Nope, not gonna happen. Ignore me if you want, or learn not to jump on my first words because you are unlikely to understand until I work to make myself more clear. You just wait over there with the other non-english native speakers and wait till I'm done, nodplzthx.

don't be such a Skadistic.

 

[caketastydelish]

Dude, you said that the expansion of the Aryan race continued into America during the colonial period. And that "the majority of my friends are not white" is awfully close to, "why, I have many black friends."

If I said that, it must have been a long time ago because I don't remember saying that. Though technically speaking, that would be correct. I'm not implying that that would be a good or bad think, but its technically the truth. I'm not sure what the heck that would have to do with anything though...

I love it how you're trying to get us Americans on the defensive when infact its you guys that would allow something like this to happen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwpO-nnFY9g

You guys should be ashamed of yourselves we would NEVER allow something like this to happen in my country!!! We Americans don't act like this.

 

[Gooblah]

1) Generally friendly, but sometimes loud and overbearing
2) Willfully ignorant of rest of world
3) Blindly nationalist
4) Fat

I think that covers it. I think I defy all the stereotypes but the first one.

 

[TheLastOne36]

1) Friendly and interested
2) Loud
3) can't drink strong alcahol
4) dumb and stupid
5) horrible school system
6) suck at geography
7) grammer and spelling
8) stupid sports
9) and some other things that would be said after the person i was talking to agrees with me and therefore not as important.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

7) grammer and spelling

Whoops!

8) stupid sports

You forgot "played by girls", there (netball, rounders)

 

[Bigfoot3814]

You forgot "played by girls", there (netball, rounders)

WTH is netball?

 

[Phlegmak]

1) Friendly and interested
2) Loud
3) can't drink strong alcahol
4) dumb and stupid
5) horrible school system
6) suck at geography
7) grammer and spelling
8) stupid sports
9) and some other things that would be said after the person i was talking to agrees with me and therefore not as important.

Wow, I feel loved.

 

[LuckyAC]

Bad school system: TRUE - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7126388.stm (below average in math, lower than poor countries such as Azerbaijan, Russia and Poland, they do just as badly in reading in years when they actually have results)
Fat: TRUE - http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/07/worlds-fattest-countries-forbeslife-cx_ls_0208worldfat_print.html (71% overweight, #1 in the world among real countries... well, maybe Kuwait)
Suck at geography: TRUE - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/roper2006/findings.html (37% find Iraq on a map, 50% can't find New York on a map).

 

[TheLastOne36]

Bad school system: TRUE - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7126388.stm (below average in math, lower than poor countries such as Azerbaijan, Russia and Poland, they do just as badly in reading in years when they actually have results)
Fat: TRUE - http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/07/worlds-fattest-countries-forbeslife-cx_ls_0208worldfat_print.html (71% overweight, #1 in the world among real countries... well, maybe Kuwait)
Suck at geography: TRUE - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/roper2006/findings.html (37% find Iraq on a map, 50% can't find New York on a map).

Hmm?

btw our education is very good compared to some other countries.

 

[LuckyAC]

Hmm?

btw our education is very good compared to some other countries.

GDP per capita (PPP) of countries on list in order of math ranking:
Tawain: 29,500
Finland: 33,700
Hong Kong: 37,300
South Korea: 24,500
Netherlands: 32,100
Switzerland: 34,000
Canada: 35,600
Macao: 28,400
Liechtenstein: 25,000
Japan: 33,100
New Zealand: 26,200
Belgium: 33,000
Australia: 33,000
Estonia: 20,300
Denmark: 37,000
Czech republic: 21,900
Iceland: 38,000
Austria: 34,000
Slovenia: 23,400
Germany: 31,900
Sweden: 32,200
Ireland: 44,500
France: 31,100
United kingdom: 31,800
POLAND: 14,300
Slovak republic: 18,200
Hungary: 17,600
Luxermbourg: 71,400
Norway: 46,300
Lithuania: 15,300
Latvia: 16,000
Spain: 27,400
Azerbaijan: 7,500
Russia: 12,200
United States: 44,000
Croatia: 13,400

Those are the three poorest countries - I also could have mentioned Lithuana and Latvia. The point, though is just that the USA is way down there in the territory of much poorer countries, showing it isn't doing a good job.

And yes, Poland must have a good education system, since it is up there with mostly countries that are twice as rich.

 

[Bigfoot3814]

GDP per capita (PPP) of countries on list in order of math ranking:
United States: 44,000
Croatia: 13,400

HAHAHA WE PWN CROATIA

 

[Bugfatty300]

And Croatia PWNs Russia!

 

[LuckyAC]

HAHAHA WE PWN CROATIA

We own plenty of countries, if you look at the full list. But beating out the likes of Mexico and Jordan is no great achievement. It varies a lot too. I am sure Massachusetts, for example, is similar to or better than Canada, but Mississippi is closer to Mexico.

 

[Sharwood]

If I said that, it must have been a long time ago because I don't remember saying that. Though technically speaking, that would be correct. I'm not implying that that would be a good or bad think, but its technically the truth. I'm not sure what the heck that would have to do with anything though...

I love it how you're trying to get us Americans on the defensive when infact its you guys that would allow something like this to happen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwpO-nnFY9g

You guys should be ashamed of yourselves we would NEVER allow something like this to happen in my country!!! We Americans don't act like this.

You said it in this thread, around five months ago. And despite people pointing out how wrong you were, you're still spouting similar tripe. "Technically the truth." That is nothing but willful ignorance on your part.

You just proved you're an idiot. The Aryan race, migrated from Central Asia to India, then from India to Persia. Barring some minor migrations here and there, they thoroughly assimilated into Persian culture and ethnicity. Anything else is Nazi gibberish, pure bullcrap.

I don't watch Youtube videos on general principle, but it says European racism, so I'm assuming it's the Cronulla Riots. If not, you really need to learn I'm from, it's written directly beneath my name.

Firstly, the actions of some white supremacist groups that made the trip from all around Australia, particularly Newcastle, can hardly be deemed as the actios of the majority. Moreover, it was police stupidity that led to both the riot, and the Lebanese counter-riot, much worse than the white one, that night. Finally, you Americans certainly never have race riots, do you?

 

[philippe]

So, anyone still wondering why americans are seen as idiots abroad?

 

[theskald]

So, anyone still wondering why americans are seen as idiots abroad?

No. Idiots are often very, very loud and more amusing to the media to cover than intelligent people; therefore, they tend to be more visible to non-Americans.

In addition, I postulate that if all I had to go by were English game shows and reality TV, I would think very lowly of Englishmen. As it stands I only think lowly of their modern entertainment and their food.

 

[Atticus]

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[caketastydelish]

You said it in this thread, around five months ago. And despite people pointing out how wrong you were, you're still spouting similar tripe. "Technically the truth." That is nothing but willful ignorance on your part.

You just proved you're an idiot. The Aryan race, migrated from Central Asia to India, then from India to Persia. Barring some minor migrations here and there, they thoroughly assimilated into Persian culture and ethnicity. Anything else is Nazi gibberish, pure bullcrap.

I don't watch Youtube videos on general principle, but it says European racism, so I'm assuming it's the Cronulla Riots. If not, you really need to learn I'm from, it's written directly beneath my name.

Firstly, the actions of some white supremacist groups that made the trip from all around Australia, particularly Newcastle, can hardly be deemed as the actios of the majority. Moreover, it was police stupidity that led to both the riot, and the Lebanese counter-riot, much worse than the white one, that night. Finally, you Americans certainly never have race riots, do you?

That makes since. The youtube video is devestating for your side of the argument therefore you "don't watch it". And of coarse, you have to bring up something I said five months ago however something I mentioned just right now you don't even bother to watch.

Certain things I've said taken out of context have always come back to haunt me... Well, we treat our African minorities much better than Europe does, thats for sure. I don't know about Australia. We may have race riots, but probably a lot less than other parts of the world does. I've never seen one myself.

You're saying the Aryan race never migrated to Europe. Wow what a bunch of BS... Where do you think the term "Indo-European" came from? Anyway I've had that argument before and don't want to have to deal with it again...
If they didn't go to Europe then where was the majority of the immigrants that settled Europe? They came from the area around the black sea thats where. Thats where the immigrants that settled India and Persia as well came from. Well in India, the Aryans were not the original settlers and I'm not sure about Persia but in Europe they definintly were. I'm not saying Aryans are superior/inferior to anything else but I'm just saying there technically IS such a thing as the Aryan race.

You're the one trying to say that we Americans "hate non-whites" when infact they face much more discrimination in Europe than here. YOU'RE THE IDIOT.

edit: One more thing: I didn't see a single one of my post in that page... And was it Cheezy arguing with me? Oh he hates me and constantly follows me around telling me just how wrong I am... The guy is like a stalker and any time I say something he just has to get his two sense.

 

[Grisu]

what excactly is the point of this thread? you ask for stereotypes and then lament that they're not accurate?

dude, they're stereotypes....