What is the stereotype for the state/province/region you live in?

[Atlas14]

Eastern Shore of Maryland and we're all farmers, rednecks and hicks that only know how to hunt, fish, and go crabbing.

More specifically, I live on Kent Island, yes a real island in the Chesapeake Bay, and people in Centreville think we're all chicken neckers, or people from across the Bay who have migrated here in masses and have ruined the Eastern Shore way of life. People across the Bay Bridge think we're all rednecks. Being called a chicken necker hurts more though, cause I was born here on the Eastern Shore, and actually am currently living in Centreville.

 

[MjM]

California!:

We love the beach alot
We are all Mexican
We say "dude and like" alot
We are super ghetto (Southern California)
Everyone has a perfect tan
Everyone has fake tits/other things...
Everyone loves Arnold Schwartezenegger

some off the top of mah head.

 

[The Yankee]

new york city?

We all rob and stab people in the subways and we're rude to everyone, especially the tourists. We do have the tendency to form a momentary gang just to go after tourists also.

A couple times, tourists have asked me if it was so dangerous in New York and if I was going to stab them for the hell of it. I guess I should have played with them a bit.

There's also a weird thought that everyone else is paying to subsidize the city...when it's more like the other way around.

 

[Insayn]

Springfield-Branson Missouri AKA "the Ozarks".
We all drive trucks
We all have a fishin' boat.
We all listen to country music
We all have this laid back attitude and an annoying southern slack jaw accent.

This is actually true. Especially the closer you get to Arkansas.
Most people actually listen to classic rock n roll and just have a slight accent. Our favorite past time is going to the lake with our boats too.

 

[Slaughter]

That's what people from Brazil thinks about people from Pará:


-That we're all thiefs

-We are a bunch of native rednecks who walk around with double-barreled shotguns.

-Our lives: Awake, shot, eat, shot, rest, eat again, shot, sleep, shot, go sleep again, awake.

-The Rest of Brazil think that we live in a permanent far western move, with crossfires all days.

-They all think that we're natives or grilleiros. Sometimes both.

-That our natives eat people. (The ones that ate people lived further south)

 

[PHSikes]

IOWA
Flat...not all, but most is small rolling hills
Corn...lots of it (true, if it's not corn, it's soybeans)
Potatos...Nope...that's Idaho.
Redneck farmers..nope...well maybe
Not too technologically inclined...way false because---->
Iowa State University is recognized as the birth place of the computer!

http://www.cs.iastate.edu/jva/jva-archive.shtm

 

[sysyphus]

I live in Ontario - We think that Toronto is the centre of the universe and that the other provinces don't exist.

Are you in Toronto or elsewhere? Seems to me the attitude toward Toronto is the same in the rest of Ontario as it is around the rest of the country.

And just to clarify, we don't think Toronto is the centre of the universe, just the centre of Canada.

 

[greekguy]

Oregon: (that place north of California)

You live in California's Canada?

 

[Ovulator]

 

[Riesstiu IV]

You forgot to post a picture of the farmer's beautiful innocent yet sexually curious daughter.

 

[luiz]

That's what people from Brazil thinks about people from Pará:


-That we're all thiefs

-We are a bunch of native rednecks who walk around with double-barreled shotguns.

-Our lives: Awake, shot, eat, shot, rest, eat again, shot, sleep, shot, go sleep again, awake.

-The Rest of Brazil think that we live in a permanent far western move, with crossfires all days.

-They all think that we're natives or grilleiros. Sometimes both.

-That our natives eat people. (The ones that ate people lived further south)

Nah, we just think you're a bunch of funny indians.

 

[Dr. Yoshi]

We are all insane.

Oh and we surf a lot.

 

[Turner]

In addition to what Puglover said, people think Kansas is all flat. That may be so in the western part of the state, but in the eastern part the terrain can be quite hilly. Nothing like Pike's Peak, or even the Appalachins, but definately not flat.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I'm from Southern Maryland, and we're pretty much a bunch of rednecks who grow tobacco and listen to country music as we roll around in big red pickups, at least thats what another Marylander will tell you, assuming he knows where southern maryland IS ( many dont, and i can say im ashamed for them). Oh, and we fish a lot (that ones true) and make absolutely THE BEST crabcakes youve ever had, thanks to the Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab! ( that one;s true too, you havent eaten crab until you've been to Captain Billy's Crabhouse or Clarke's Landing)

 

[malclave]

California... hmm...

Hippies.
Surfers.
"People's Republic of California".
An earthquake is going to hit that exactly follows the state borders, separating it from North America and dropping it into the Pacific.
Celebrities can get away with anything... especially movie or TV stars.

 

[Spartan117]

chicago:

more specific everyone is a "gangerbanger" and there in iraq...tagging tanks and such

 

[Winner]

We’re all pretty familiar with national stereotypes but what about the regional stereotypes of your nation?

Well, in Europe you don't only have dozens of coutries, but even in the smallests of them there are dozens of regional stereotypes and rivalries

In Czech Rep.:

I am from Moravia, which is often seen as a rural region with pleasant peasant way of life, small cute villages, vineyards, winevaults and so on. The problem is that even if this may be true for some regions in southern Moravia, the rest is looking different now. Brno, the city where I live, is making huge progress and we're starting to be a technological center of Czech Rep.

Then there is Prague. Admittedly nice city, but unfortunately full of arrogant, egoistic and overconfident people, for whom the world ends few kilometers from Prague. The rest of Czechs usually don't like Prague, the biggest resentment can be find in Brno and Ostrava, the second and third largest cities.

Similar to the Brno-Prague relationship, there is also the Moravian-Bohemian issue. Moravians don't like, when the Bohemians ("Češi" in Czech) make no differences between their half of the country and the whole country itself. It is hard to explain in English, because it has different names for both parts, but in Czech, the name of the country is derived from the name of its western part and that's what Moravians don't like. Bohemians, on the other hand, accuse Moravians of separatism, which is ridiculous

 

[TheBladeRoden]

Wisconsin: Everyone either farms, hunts, or fishes, but mostly all three.
We can't get enough beer, sausage, and cheese.
Brett Favre is god.
The reddest-looking blue state.
Booooring!
The cows! They're everywhere!
There are two seasons in Wisconsin, winter and construction.

And my hometown Beloit is comparitively ghetto next to the other nearby cities.

 

[7ronin]

Southern California

In addition to the excellent observations of Dr. Yoshi, McClave, and MJM:

Airheaded Valley Girls and Mallrats.
Freeway chases every hour.
People who spend half their lives in their cars.
A swimming pool in every back yard.
The Govinator.
A ton of fast food restaurants no one in the rest of the country has ever heard of.
A taco stand on every corner; The names of all of them ending in "berto."
Low riders and Mexican gang bangers.
Every house has a Mexican maid and yardboy.
Perpetual smog.

It's like just the craziest and bestest place you know.

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

Leigh, Wigan and the Rest of the North West of England
Unemployed: Since Maggie shut the pits and left us to rot.

Chavs: Admittedly Liverpool and especially it's satellite towns Widnes, Skem, pump these out like McDonalds Burgers.

Thugs: Hard to argue, most people up North either get bladdered and beat each other up on a Friday Night or play Rugby on the Saturday and beat each other up legitimately.

Dirty: Stems back to the old Coal & Cotton days. Most Cities are getting alot nicer, Manchester in particular but since Londoners will not come any further up North than the Watford Gap, nor would we want them to, the "Dirty North" myth is perpetuated.

Sheep Sha**ers: (two 'G's ) Yep, although this is a common phrase for use against those uncivilsed Celts, citizens of Girocity (Liverpool) do consider any town with more than a football pitch of grass to be "Wollybacks".

For a more indepth look at how parts of England are percieved look at the "North / South Divide" Thread