stereotypes you don't mind

[cgannon64]

People with big feet...

have big socks.

And people with big socks...

have big shoes.

(In case you haven't heard this one, it eventually works it way to where you think its going.)

 

[History_Buff]

I dont mind have people joke about the "Canada eh?" thing, mostly because i find myslef ending abou a quarter of ym sentences with "eh" now a days eh?

 

[Margim]

Death to all crocodile hunters. And 'Neighbours' bred pop-stars. Yes, I'm Australian, and I don't like stereotypes. Or general ignorance. By the way Canberra, NOT Sydney, is our capital.

 

[Mario Feldberg]

Originally posted by Margim
By the way Canberra, NOT Sydney, is our capital.

I always thought that Washington was your capital

 

[SeleucusNicator]

I'm fluent in Polish and could easily obtain citizenship in that country due to my parents being born there, so I should be a very easy target for stereotyping.

However, I don't, since I have mostly rejected my heritage and since my last name is Austrian. (That does make for the occasional "at last my country wasn't ruled by inbred morons" comment, but those are rare.)

If anything, I get sterotyped as the flaky intellectual who loses things and knows everything. That gets really annoying if somebody asks me a question that I don't know the answer to, or when somebody scores higher than me on an exam.

Within the city of Chicago, there are several stereotypes for White Sox fans. (the White Sox are one of our two baseball teams -- the two are bitter rivals), which is a group that I am a member of. They're stereotyped as being poor, uneducated, violent, and having a tendency to run onto the field and attack umpires or opposing coaches.

I have a lot of fun with the last one.

 

[Mark Young]

Originally posted by Margim
......By the way Canberra, NOT Sydney, is our capital.

For now anyway..........

 

[Grisu]

Originally posted by polymath
And formalities. Herr Professor Doktor Doktor etc.

that's the stereotype we have here for Austrians, it seems that everyone who can read is at least a Doktor..

I generally don't mind the swiss stereotypes, some of them are annoying (like that we are horrible lovers, or that we (like the germans) have no humor), but they are generally not too bad. Oh, and we live of course all in huts in the alps (like heidi)

 

[stratego]

By the way Canberra, NOT Sydney, is our capital.

since when?

I always thought that Washington was your capital

Washington's a person, not a capital.


More questions to the Australians. Do you live far from your neighbor (reference, Simpson), and do you see kangaroos a lot?

 

[bobgote]

Originally posted by The Yankee
And since nobody figures out my part-Polish and little bit of Russian blood...I don't mind if it's done with good humor. Nor any stereotypes about Americans or New Yorkers.....it's when it's malicious that pisses me off.

But I still like the big feet stereotype....if anyone knows what that is.

big feet oh yeah
mine are fairly big - size 13
but from memory yours are a few sizes bigger.
man am i envious

Originally posted by Sir Eric
For now anyway..........

The day Sydney, the city of one-way streets, becomes capital, is the day i lead victoria to secede from the rest of the nation!

Originally posted by stratego

since when?

Washington's a person, not a capital.

More questions to the Australians. Do you live far from your neighbor (reference, Simpson), and do you see kangaroos a lot?

oh god

kangaroos are plentiful, and a useful source of cheap transport. It takes me 5 hours to walk to my neighbour (2 hours by roo).

ok but seriously - in Canberra (the capital) there are roos around a fair bit. I live in a block of flats so its like no distance to my neighbours

 

[test_specimen]

Originally posted by KaeptnOvi


that's the stereotype we have here for Austrians, it seems that everyone who can read is at least a Doktor..

I never heard that one, but a lot of Austrians are quite fetishistic about their titles. Also we have a lot of titles that are not related to any education or achievment (other than sufficient age). e.g.: "Hofrat", "Studienrat", "Regierungsrat". From Germans you usally hear, that Austrians are too friendly ("Küss die Hand, gnä Frau") even when not liking the person you are friendly to. And it seems that Viennese accent implies some lazyness.

Most of them are not true, and no one attributed them to me personally, so I have not been offended, yet.

 

[Mark Young]

Originally posted by stratego


More questions to the Australians. Do you live far from your neighbor (reference, Simpson), and do you see kangaroos a lot?

I live right next to a National park in Sydney's north so I see mostly swamp wallabies and there are supposedly Eastern Grey kangaroo's but I have yet to see one.

More questions to the Australians. Do you live far from your neighbor (reference, Simpson), and do you see kangaroos a lot?

I grew up in the bush in Tasmania, our neighbours were only a few Kilometres away so I mostly played with the animals.
We had no sewerage, we had an outhouse that is a shed with a bucket in it that got empied every few days. We had no plumbing so we used rainwater for everything (we bathed once a week and me and my 2 brothers used the same bath water, I was the last one to bathe cause I'm the youngest). I never had a shower until I was 10 years old.

I visited my Auntie who is still down there and she now has the luxury of having a toilet in the house.

 

[Margim]

Stratego - Don't know if you were serious on the whole "Since when?" thing, but...
Canberra, the capital of Australia was named in 1913, and built over a site between Sydney and Melbourne, Australia's two largest cities (and Melbourne being the better of the two by far - it has REAL football). Australia's parliament started meeting there in 1927 (slow development - must have been due to the fact its surrounding territory lies in the state of New South Wales ). Between 1901 and 1927, Australia's parliament convened in Melbourne.

Regarding neighbours - We've only got 20 million or so people in a pretty large country, but much of it is desert. Most of our population lives on the eastern/south easter sea board in cities. Sydney has around 4.5 million, Melbourne 3.5 million (very rough - don't quote these figures. Someone correct me...). That being said, in the country and up north on cattle stations, there are vast distances between neighbours.

And yes there are Kangaroos, no they don't plague all our cities - possibly you could compare them to deer in the U.S. May appear in some outlying suburbs, but not an everyday sighting. Much more common in the country. And Canberra, which is more or less country. (350,000ish people)

Sorry this post was a little off topic...

 

[bobgote]

Originally posted by Margim
Stratego - Don't know if you were serious on the whole "Since when?" thing, but...
Canberra, the capital of Australia was named in 1913, and built over a site between Sydney and Melbourne, Australia's two largest cities (and Melbourne being the better of the two by far - it has REAL football). Australia's parliament started meeting there in 1927 (slow development - must have been due to the fact its surrounding territory lies in the state of New South Wales ). Between 1901 and 1927, Australia's parliament convened in Melbourne.

Well they had to build a capital city in the middle of nowhere - give them a break

 

[sysyphus]

Stereotypes of Candians are like funny, eh?

Of course, we're not all Bob and Doug MacKenzie up here (though there are a few around who seem to fit the bill)

 

[Riesstiu IV]

We'll my dad is from America so we all know the stereotypes Americans get.
In India, there tends to be some nasty racial stereotypes. South Indians, who are usually darker skinned, consider North Indians who usually have lighter skin as airheads concerned with their looks (I think they get this impression from Bollywood movies). While north Indians think of South Indians as ugly and too smart for their own good.

I think the stereotype In the west towards Indians is that they own a lot of shops (Apu from the Simpsons) or they are very smart (Asok from the Dilbert comic strips).

 

[BobTheTerrible]

Being young and ignorant, I would be curious as to know what the stereotypes for New England are, or should I say, Nutmeggers.

As to getting offended, I don't get mad at the least if someone stereotypes me, because it's probably not true. Somehow being Italian the Mafia always pops up, and nobody really knows much about Ukrane, my other half. (What are Ukranian stereotypes? Sitting in little hovel by a fire eating soup?)

 

[Pontiuth Pilate]

Borscht. Or is that Lithuania?

I'm Californian, so people I assume I know how to surf, I can fix any computer in half a minute flat, I'm a communist, and I have at least once smoked marijuana. None of which are true.

Well, ok, one of them - I'll let you guess which

 

[De Lorimier]

You're a COMMUNIST !?!?!

 

[bobgote]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
We'll my dad is from America so we all know the stereotypes Americans get.
In India, there tends to be some nasty racial stereotypes. South Indians, who are usually darker skinned, consider North Indians who usually have lighter skin as airheads concerned with their looks (I think they get this impression from Bollywood movies). While north Indians think of South Indians as ugly and too smart for their own good.

I think the stereotype In the west towards Indians is that they own a lot of shops (Apu from the Simpsons) or they are very smart (Asok from the Dilbert comic strips).

and full of programmers, so our programming jobs go offshore to india, meaning less opportunities for me

 

[Archer 007]

Originally posted by bobgote

Well they had to build a capital city in the middle of nowhere - give them a break

Kinda like Washington DC was