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Wesley
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posted May 27, 2002 02:25 PM |
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Biggest errors?
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1:We ALL love soccer(I can't remember I loved soccer? I hate it! So that's 1 less! -1 Aerial hates it aswel)
2:We all smoke weed? What's weed? And what is the goal of weed? Only pathetic people smoke weed...
3:We all Drink beer?(Only the males drink that snow! But they are stupid anyway, it can't kill anymore braincells because they are brainless already...
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SirDunco
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posted May 27, 2002 03:27 PM |
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Slovakia
Misconceptions
1) We are stupid
2) We are all beer drinkers and drunks
3) We are poor
4) We are not technologicaly advanced
5) A land of agriculture
6) We are Communsits
7) The women here are fat and ugly
8) We live in huts
The Truth
1) F*No! We are not stupid!Example: I come from a line of doctors and chemical engineers. My grandfather is one of the most respected cardiologists in Europe and the World
2) Not all of us drink beer, and only a few people are drunks.
3) Poor? Our income per capita is bigger then the Polish, Hungarians andd every other former communsit country excluding the Czechs. Their the only ones who have a better income per capita.
4) Rightnow i'm sitting at a Compaque Pentium3 labtom using a 68k(or something) modem, with the latest equipment around me.
5) Wrong! Look at the stats. Most of our population works either in manifacture and(or) services.
6) We were in the Communist block, but we didn't like it. And now we have a President a Prime Minister and a 150 seat pairlament. In other words a democracy.
7) Once again wrong! Just a couple of examples. We have 3 Miss Universe winners in the past 6 or 7 years.
8) Yes. Do huts have telecommunications and electricity? No then do we live in huts? No. We live in normal appartments and houses.
I hope you were enlightened.
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DonGio
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posted May 27, 2002 03:52 PM |
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Misconceptions
1) We are stupid - well, most nations have a wide array of less fortunate, I don't think it's a common misconception that Slovakia is a particularly stupid country
2) We are all beer drinkers and drunks - who isn't?
3) We are poor - Well, you are (being richer than other poor countries doesn't make you wealthy (not that being poor makes you lesser people in any way))
4) We are not technologicaly advanced - I reckon you mean 58K modem and not 68K, but if you call that and a P3 the latest equipment, you just proved yourself wrong (I'm using a 1,9 GHZ pc with appropriate accessories and a cable hookup, and this machine is nearly a year old!)
5) A land of agriculture - you have some strange notions of what the misconceptions about your country is, we're the peasants, you're the industry workers
6) We are Communsits - who thinks so? and judging by some of your political statements on this board, communist would be a fair guess as to where your sympathies lie
7) The women here are fat and ugly - no, not fat, you can't afford that much food, just ugly
8) We live in huts - again, do you live in Slovakia or Bolivia?
I hope you were enlightened. sure
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SirDunco
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posted May 27, 2002 04:11 PM |
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dongio ,
go drink down some of that oil of yours, richee ! Lol.
We are richer than the poor countries? Wtf are u talkin about? We are not at the level of Afghanistan or Angola or third world countries! We are the second richest country in Central europe.
As for my computer, it's great that u have a good computer, but the computer i'm using is all i need and for most of the money used to buy it i worked for myself by refereing soccer games. I know that there is pentium4. I have used it and some of my friends have it.
Look Dongio i personaly am a MARXIST not a COMMUNIST, but it's different where my wievs lie and where the wievs of the others lie.
AND WE ARE NOT PESANTS!!!! Look come to slovakia sometime and i will show you all the industries here.
Women here are not ugly! I have seen ugly and here is nothing near it.
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Stalefish
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posted May 28, 2002 11:51 AM |
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We don't walk around all day smoking weet, chewing chees and selling tulips and clogs to every snowing tourist who wants to see us in our damn mill were we are supposed to live in.
oh btw amsterdam as sex capitol is way overrated!
It's sickening!
(exuse my language, got a little pissed)
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DonGio
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posted May 28, 2002 09:50 PM |
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Glad to see that you're not freaking out about this. Makes it more fun.
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We are richer than the poor countries? Wtf are u talkin about?
Oh, I just thought you were. If you aren't, fine, my bad  .
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AND WE ARE NOT PESANTS!!!! Look come to slovakia sometime and i will show you all the industries here.
Hey, know what, if you read the thread really thorough, you'll see that I said we(meaning the norwegian) were the peasants, leaving the factory workers all to you!
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Women here are not ugly! I have seen ugly and here is nothing near it.
Sorry. Nothing can compete with norwegian girls. And compared to them, well... your girls... err... come out... bottom...
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matthy
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posted May 28, 2002 10:14 PM |
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Welcome to ESTonia!
1)estonians beat the living crap out of russians all the time
2)estonians are slow and uneducated, would compare us to american rednecks
3)all estonians are exteremely poor and dumb
but the biggest and most insulting is
4)estonia is not estonia, its a small part of soviet union...  we were taken by force!
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DonGio
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posted May 29, 2002 12:31 AM |
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TERE ÖHTUST!
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phYscHo
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posted May 29, 2002 05:44 AM |
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Oh Wow, lots of angryness and misconceptions, well my misconception i guess bout the netherlands wasn't that they all smoke weed, and to my knowledge that number is about only 20-30% actualy do(from some research paper i was reading)
is it true that you have shops that sell it on the corner like 7-11 type things?
anyways the biggest one i've ever heard of is everyone from africa is definatly black, and if your white you hate anyone of any other color nomatter what...
basicly tho all our idea's are based on tv and movies, and if they didn't tell us what we thought was true, we wouldn't really watch, who would really wanna watch some russian who didn't drink vodka everyday(just example), or some aussi that didn't wear the funky hat with the hanging corks.. tv has made us all idealized and given us something to believe in. if this private world of ours is torn down(such as this thread does) people tend to get angry and confused as since everything the've been told isn't all true.. what really is true, and what isn't. noone could really know
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Avallach
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Disputo ergo sum.
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posted June 02, 2002 03:58 PM |
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I saw a survey result once which showed that Asians tend to think we Australians are a bunch of lazy slack-arses.
But I guess that doesn't really belong in this thread, as I'd have to say they're pretty much spot on  .
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Consis
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posted May 25, 2004 07:51 PM |
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Edited By: Consis on 10 Jan 2005
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Thread Revived
Good thread
Outside of america it seems like many foreigners have a general american stereotype but inside america the stereotypes go by each state. Each state usually has their own set of biased stereotypes and misrepresentations.
Let me see if I can name a few:
Texas(where I am from)
cowboys, mexicans, and farmers eating tacos and biscuits and gravy.
Everyone plays football(american)
Everyone says, "Y'all".
Steers & Queers....
Massachusetts(all New England area)
clam chowder
fisherman
loggers
boston creme donuts
"My dahg has fah pahs"
established wealthy patriots
wealthy people live here
New Mexico
mexicans
snow skiing
alcohol drinking
retirement homes
Washington
home of most serial killers
most rock bands come from here
Mount St. Helens
Oregon
a pass through the sierra nevada mountains
paper mills
on the coast above california
Tonya Harding lives here
Vermont
nicest place to live
everyone lives in coffee shops
everyone uses internet
word "Java" comes from Vermont
Lots of trees
Tennessee
country music
home of Elvis Presley
eats southern food dishes(fried apple crisp desert)
all the women have poofy hair
Elvis is the only man that ever lived in Tennessee
Kentucky
car racing
chicken comes from Kentucky
also home of Elvis
They eat and make lots of barbecue beef
southern-ness
South Carolina
Gone with the Wind....uh...that's where it was right?(lol)
They have a long pronounciation of the southern accents
white rich people and plantations
Tarheel wrestling
Michael Jordan is from here
Utah
Beehive of the Mormons
home of the cults
Mormon stuff is there
People go there to have many wives
Olympics were there once, it was cool
California
Arnold Swarzenegger is the governor
Hollywood
Valley girls
everyone smokes weed
hippies
San Fransisco = Gay beaurocratic capital of the world
L.A. = smog
everyone was in a movie("did you see my hand in that one commercial?")
"Orange-pickin-beaners"
Nevada
everyone gambles
casinos
the sun never comes up
Area 51
secret military bases
indians gamble too
Arizona
basketball
it's hot
dessert
Senator John McCain
it's hot
phoenix is a city
it's hot
does anybody live there?
(did I mention it's hot?)
Idaho
home of the american neo nazis
home to KKK
home to racists
people afraid to drive through the state
potatos?
North Dakota
nothing to see
land is flat 'forever'
no earthquakes ever
look for the nuclear missile silos (you'll see a small fence in the middle of nowhere)
Mt. Rushmore?
Where is Canada?
South Dakota
more nuclear missile silos
where is North Dakota?
Mt. Rushmore?
Sioux Falls is a city somewhere in there(how do we pronounce that?)
Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois
Lake-effect weather
pollution
fog
wind
black people
automobile factories
Mowtown somewhere in Chicago, which is windy
projects
rundown train tracks
Indiana
Basketball
Washington d.c.
pentagon(which is top secret)
lots of monuments
is it a state?
it doesn't have any electoral votes
Louisiana
Mardis Gras
beeds
masks
vampires
alcohol
smiling
drunk
gumbo
spicy foods
strange accent
naked people
Florida
hurricanes
bermuda triangle
ships
disney land or world?
oranges come from florida
space shuttle launches happen in florida
Miami Vice(Don Johnson)
mafia and gang violence
drug smuggling
cartel homes
beach front clubs
Madonna's and Versace's house is somewhere in there on the beach or something
Cubans who made the swim
the little boy doesn't belong in Florida
Georgia
next to Mississippi
hot and wet
old southern black folk
old southern christian black folk
old plantations
why is a peach on the liscense plate?
peaches come from Georgia?
college football
Olympics were there once(some kind weird blue ghost with sparkles?)
It's big
Civil war stuff is there
Colorado
Mountains and snow
snow skiing
highschool massacres
Oklahoma
people from Texas + unibomber
Mississippi
Mississippi river
long filthy river where Mark Twain used to live in some old steam-powered ferries
Biloxi = arm pit of hell
(Did I mention the river?)
**ouch that was a lot of stereotypes**
Edit: Can anyone guess which states are Red or Blue from the stereotypes?
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Asmodean
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Heroine at the weekend.
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posted May 25, 2004 08:07 PM |
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Loooooooooooong post there Concis. Think I'll read it in chapters
Ireland
We all drink too much......yes we do, so?!
We hate the British........only sometimes. But sometimes they deserve it  (sorry PH)
Everything is green........except when it's another colour.
We all drink too much......did I already say that? Sorry, must be because I'm drunk.
Leprechauns exist..........they do.
It rains all the time......it does.
We all say "Top o' the mornin' to ya"........only to American tourists.
Riverdance is cool.........Yeah right 
We're all thick Paddys.....Some of us have other names. But we're still thick
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Khaelo
Honorable
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Underwater
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posted May 26, 2004 03:18 AM |
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randomness
When I was in Ireland on a semi-academic program, a couple of fellow students bought these flat round hats with a little button on top (not sure what they're called). They were running around Galway wearing these old-fashioned hats, trying to look really Irish, and getting a lot of strange looks from the locals. Some kids also managed to get the World's Ugliest Shamrock Tattoos, probably after have drunk far too much Guiness underaged. So...stereotypes of other nations can feed into the stereotype of the American tourist, which is too often richly deserved.
As to state stereotypes within the US, a true story: One of my classmates was applying to East Coast colleges. At one of them, when he told the admissions receptionist that he was from Iowa, he was promptly informed, "Oh, around here we pronounce that Ohio." :eek:
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Vadskye91
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Back again
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posted May 26, 2004 04:50 AM |
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America
1. We're stupid.
2. We're depraved.
3. We only love money.
4. We are rascist.
5. We are sexist.
Oh wait, that's all true!
Well for most of us anyway. Especially the CEOs.
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Wiseman
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posted May 26, 2004 02:27 PM |
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LOL Consis, that was one of your best posts IMHO.
If I ever go to USA I`ll use it as a tourist guide.
Anyway misconceptions about Serbia:
1.It`s a small godforsaken hole, nobody knows exactly where.
2.Only ultra-nationalist cold-blooded butchers live there.
3.There`s no electricity there,and people live in caves or
small shacks, which is okay because they`re barbarians
anyway
4.When we get bored with watching TV without electricity
we commit another etnic cleansing and maybe a bonus
genocide.
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Svarog
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statue-loving necrophiliac
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posted May 26, 2004 02:53 PM |
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Lower the eaxggeration of each and every stereotype, and have in mind that it doesn't apply to all the people, and you get a general truth about a country.
Now, reread this thread having this in mind, and you'll learn whole new facts about many places.
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Consis
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posted January 10, 2005 07:35 AM |
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Wiseman,
If you write this down before coming to america you are gauranteed a front-row seat at the next world series. LoL You'd be a popular guy!
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guitarguy
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Rockoon.
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posted January 10, 2005 12:02 PM |
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Common misconceptions about Hawaii, USA
1. Totally paradise; just palm trees, beaches, and grass shacks.
2. Not a foreigner for miles.
3. Not a single television, computer, cellphone, or traffic light.
4. Government comprised solely of illiterate natives.
5. Coconut and pineapples are chief exports.
6. Authentic luau and lovely hula dancers at each meal every day.
7. Every appliance made out of bamboo, Gilligan's Island style.
8. The existance of Pearl Harbor is a myth.
9. No horses, so no transportation unless you can tame a wild boar.
10. Cannibalism and scalp-collecting insanely popular
11. Even the males wear grass skirts, if anything at all.
12. Daily human sacrifices to volcano goddess.
13. No spoken language, just "ug-ug's".
14. Local doctors would be burned at the stake in the US mainland.
15. Currency is made of shark's teeth.
16. Polygamy heaven.
17. Hook, line, and bait??? Just grab a spear!
Aloha Oi,
-guitarguy
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Consis
Honorable
Legendary Hero
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posted January 10, 2005 03:34 PM |
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Hawaii continued...
Lilo and Stitch live there
rains 3 times a day every day(technically)
Hawaii = 1 island
Hawaii was a member of the United States when Japan attacked docked U.S. naval ships at Pearl Harbor
Hawaii = 1 volcano
Hawaii has electoral votes?
D.C. doesn't have representatives so why does Hawaii need them?
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Q
Hired Hero
Moo,I say.
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posted January 10, 2005 06:24 PM |
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Welcome to Estonia:
1)we all hate russians.
2)there´s a kiosk in every corner
3)not one of the wealthiest countries.
4)We have many records and we´re the dudes who invented the 100% vodka(youll have to take regular vodka and then water for the cooldown
5)we maybe are a little slow (???)
6)we´re all a little thickheaded.
That´s all about what I can tyhink about.
p.s.Try looking this up from a dictionary!
the words are Tere mina olen juustu hull!
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