Your national complex

[Desmond Hawkins]

This, and the fact that 'man for man' Australia is the greatest sporting nation in the world, is why it is Great Britian's favourite Colony Cousin. I'd love to live there at some point

Australia is NOT the greatest sporting nation in the world. They are just overrepresented in the Olympics because the Olympics rewards greater for sports that Australians play.

Think about it. For all the people that play ice hockey, there can only be one medal per country. Same with soccer. No matter how many competitive ice hockey teams Canada could potentially field, they can only win one medal. No matter how many competitive soccer teams Brazil can field, they can only win one medal.

Then one big-footed Aussie can win like 8 medals in swimming.

Anyway. Canadians? Well, quite frankly most countries have the same stereotypes about themselves. We are underappreciated, we have an inferiority complex, blah blah blah.

 

[Dann]

Well, the Filipinos have a love-hate relationship with the US, the Americans having been our colonial masters since the Spanish had the good sense to get the hell out. On the one hand, they detest the fact that the US crushed the First Republic, and put it under US control, then after 1949 screwed us over with economic domination, and supporting the Marcos regime. On the other hand, we have adopted the American culture almost wholesale, with fast food, Hollywood, etc.

So true.

We see our Muslim minority as a bunch of secessionist traitors (they’ve been trying to get their own state since the Americans came here)

That's because prior to the Americans succeeding in beating the crap out of them, they were for all extents and purposes an independent nation. (The British were able to lease Sabah directly from the sultan of Sulu as late as the 19th century, and that old claim almost led to hostilities between Philippines and Malaysia in the 1960s.) For the entire duration of their reign the Spanish exerted only nominal control over Mindanao, and never were able to impose their will over the Muslims of the south, much less convert them to Catholicism like the rest of the islands.

In the eyes of our Muslim minority, they are the true heirs of the pre-colonial Philippines, and the rest of us are all a bunch of sell-outs.

While I sympathize with them for being marginalized in our society (In Manila Chinese New Year's gets more coverage from the media than Ramadan! How's that for irony?), they are not entirely blameless. The Abu Sayyaf's activities are not helping their cause any. A few of my friends have gone and done business in Mindanao, and they observed that it is the Muslim womenfolk who farm, work, and engage in business. The men just sit around all day drinking coffee and complaining about their lousy situation and the government's indifference towards them.

 

[bathsheba666]

.. oh forget it ..

 

[Reno]

-300°C Hell turns to ice.
The finns win the Eurovision Song contest.

Seems like Hell froze afterall.

 

[classical_hero]

Us Aussie do not have a somplex, because we are jus the best nation in the World. We have fabulous weather, which means we are lacking water. We haave to rebuild our north every summer so we are very industrious as a result. America eat your heart out at that one.
As Prince of Liegh rightly said, we are the best sporting nation, because we all know that the Winter Games are not a proper sporting contest.
We have a shitload of minerals that we are digging up and making moeny from as result making us one of the world's richest nations. We actually have a growing economy, which is rare.

 

[Savas cafe]

Gent's, we have a winner; no other nation has more complexes than the Greeks

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

Australia is NOT the greatest sporting nation in the world. They are just overrepresented in the Olympics because the Olympics rewards greater for sports that Australians play.

Think about it. For all the people that play ice hockey, there can only be one medal per country. Same with soccer. No matter how many competitive ice hockey teams Canada could potentially field, they can only win one medal. No matter how many competitive soccer teams Brazil can field, they can only win one medal.

Then one big-footed Aussie can win like 8 medals in swimming.

Arrw we still like Canada too. *Rubs Canada's Head* But your brother is the World Champion in many sports, not just Olympic ones. Perhaps you'd be better at running, jumping and swimming if Canada was filled with deadly animals. Now run along you little scamp.

Well Done Finland for the Eurovision It is a selection of the worst songs ever but any song which foretells the "Day of Rockening" gets my vote

Also well done Greece for putting on another awesome show

 

[Commy]

some finns even want the region of Karelia back

2 aaglo:

 

[aaglo]

But some people do want it (and I've said earlier, I don't)... no point denying that fact.

 

[thetrooper]

Actually, Norwegians are the "joke people" in Denmark Wonder if we are the joke people of the Swedes... Then there would truly be basis for Scandinavian conflict.

'Fjellaper' are we (i.e. Norwegians)?



Fjell = mountain.
Ape = monkey.

And of course we Norwegians believe that you speak with hot potatos stuck in your throats.



Edit: and I agree with Erik on the first page of this thread.

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

'Fjellaper' are we (i.e. Norwegians)?
Fjell = mountain.
Ape = monkey.

Am I right in saying that the Germans have a similar name for the English? Issan affen? IIRC "Island Monkey".

I always thought that was too funny to have been thought up by a German

 

[Till]

Am I right in saying that the Germans have a similar name for the English? Issan affen? IIRC "Island Monkey".

I always thought that was too funny to have been thought up by a German

Yeah, "Inselaffen" (Island Monkeys). But it doesn't get much use as far as i know. England is just not a popular target for rants. (Unless it comes to football, but even then Holland comes first. )

 

[Leifmk]

'Fjellaper' are we (i.e. Norwegians)?



Fjell = mountain.
Ape = monkey.

We are apes, not monkeys. As anyone who's read enough Pratchett can tell you, it's important to get your primates right.

 

[thetrooper]

Pratchett who?



Okay, simian then?

 

[Leifmk]

Pratchett who?



Okay, simian then?

Ook, I say, old chap. Ook.

 

[Zardnaar]

In New Zealand we suffer from tall poppy syndrome and have a massive inferiority complex. We regard ourselves as having the best race relations in the world and as one of the most liberal. Aussie is the big brother nation over the ditch but we have a very similar culture of rugby, pies, beer, pavlova. We tend to regard the rest of the world as. We're anti nuclear not realising the rest of the world largely doesn't give a rats ass.

USA. Loud, brash, arrogant and clumsy. Generous though at the individual level.

England. Full of whinging poms. Given the weather can't blame them.

Germans. Complain more than the English. At least they fight well though.

French. Soft and weak. Nuclear armed terrorists. Panzer parking lot.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Sweden: We're heads and shoulders above the lot of you, and very modest about it.

Finland: Taciturn drunks in saunas.

Norway: Proverbially stupid people who somehow have become richer than us. Thinks that Swedish booze is cheap.

Denmark: Source of cheap beer. Speak with hot potatoes in their mounts.

Germany: Source of even cheaper beer. The population consists entirely of Turks and Bavarians.

Netherlands: The Red Light District with some surrounding polders and windmills.