The way countries see each other + stereo types

Yes, I thought it was disrepectful too Technodreamer. The protesters claimed that Bush wasn’t sincere, and it was “just for show.” Even so, MLK was receiving a visit and respect from this country’s President, and so I think it was disrespectful to MLK too.
I only posted the story to show the ongoing protesting that happens everyday in this Country.

Wow, that sounds horrible. It makes me wonder how it ever got that way. Homelessness seems to be a problem in all Countries, and some homeless people actually claim they prefer to be homeless. Some would rather live a life of poverty than be stressed with modern worries.

That is just plain sick… :grrr:

thinking back to those old kid movies where those dolls who come to life sing “have you ever seen a lassie”…
plaid. lots of it. plaid skirts i mean. i’ve got all of europe besides britain associated with that.

well, when they’re in prison, they have shelter and food… it’s sort of like landing in jail in monopoly when all of the properties have been taken and everywhere you land boom… maybe not. I agree it was disrespectful to MLK to boo at his grave, but it was a novel way to make another insult to bush…

come on lets think of more stereotypes… i’m all out… so little knowledge about foreign countries… hey that means I fit in the “ignorant” stereotype…

CHEERIO!

Do Europeans really say “Cheerio?” and what does it mean?

Cheerio! :grin:

how about us finns? well i think finland is so small nation that there ain’t many stereotypes about us, probably just coyntries near us have some… like we have steretypes about swedes, russians etc…

I wouldn’t say it was disrespectful, MLK was strongly against war and Bush obviously isn’t. I could see it being disrespectful if Bush brought peace to even 1 nation, but he didn’t, at that point he was just doing it because A. As the president, he had too. And B. To continue to try to look like the good guy, who is striving for peace. If anything its disrespectful that Bush would lay the wreath at all.

finns?
You are all tall and slender with long blond hair. You are metal freaks and quite poetic in your own depressing way

Finland = Snow-covered land peppered with outdoor saunas among the trees, each filled with guys with long black OR white hair (not any other color) and who are drinking beer. There might be some actual houses around the place as well. :smile:

Do you say “bloody hell” also?? I get that a lot from Giles in Buffy the vampire slayer. (what can I say my sister watches it so much and I have nothing to do…)

I would like to see some stereotypes about sweden!

I can mention that every home in sweden is solely furnished with IKEA-stuff … it’s fun to take everything apart and build it again, a lego for grown-ups :razz: hehe

Americans:
Fat, always having a burger in the hand.
Those who aren’t fat is either living in California or freaks of nature

Religious fanatics, worse than the terrorist-bitches in Afghanistan

Dumb, well most of them are it seems

Obsessed in (of?) money and cars, spending their lives in the chase of higher status

Spitting on homeless people and laughing at them… capitalist pigs haha, long live soviet… err… whatever

Finns
Always have a Mora-knife on them

Drinks lots of vodka

always have light-blue adidaswear: https://www.atm7.com/adijog1.gif (yeah it’s the wrong color but who gives a shit)

have matching swedish clogs

always try to stab you with the Mora-knife if you comment their adidas, if they forget the knife at home they’ll drink all of the vodka fast so they can break the glass and stab you…

if you meet a fin who isn’t like this he was probably brought up in sweden :wink:

they like to swear too

Dutch’

Potheads

have the ugliest language ever… it sounds like german but the difference is that it’s like they have pubic-hair stuck in their throats… like: their speaking while trying to get the hair out

windmills … like the idea… spitting pubic-hair while smoking pot by a windmill… paradise!!

Africans

have xxx-large schlongs

clicking while talking

voodoo and shit

Arabs

always having the latest fashion and listening to techno

always trying to fool you when you are buying weed

getting really cranky when watching TV and seeing something about the U.S … then they’re talking about how they would like to kill all americans or at least Bush :tongue:

making pizza…

robbing you on your cellphone / selling you stolen cellphones

English

horrible food… often tastes like wallpaper

hooligans

so dull… raining and the whole lifesituation seems hopeless for them

well that’s all… can’t think of any more

finnish… hmm actually i don’t know of any finnish stereotype :neutral:
they talk funny, lol :smile: i once had a coworker who was from finland, and when i heard her speak finnish i was like what are you saying??

swedish:

talk funny :tongue: öhkenöh kehümölm löl :smile:
eat knackebröd :smile:
all have blond hair and blue eyes
live in a cold country.
everything there is still unspoiled (clean air, rivers etc).
umm…

Odds of Bush being called disrespectful for visiting the grave: 100%
Odds of Bush being called disrespectful if he hadn’t shown up: 100%

Poor guy :grin:

:lol: wow, good point!

Mmm, a Swedish stereotype:
-they have lots of “sexy TV shows” that would be considered porn in the US. :gni:

hmm lol, "thanks’ christo, nice stereotypes about finns :happy:

hmm i think we have quite similar stereotypes towards those coyntries that have been mentioned…

but what about swedes :content: , how would i put this nicely, err here is such stereotype that swedish males are litle queerish :happy: , well i think that was more in past, or something,
hmm. here indeed is some funny stereotypes between nordic coyntries :smile:
but i think that in reality all nordic coyntries are quite similar nowadays, but ofcourse there is some cultural differencies and language here is very different than in other nordic coyntries etc…

hmm we have some stereotypes towards russians, like that they are criminals and untrustfull… probably because some crimes come from east, but there might been some historical aspect also involved in this view

btw sorry if i made some typos/badenglish i just came from bar
:tongue:

I just remembered an American one; they all say Y’all…
Hey y’all! (as in you all) what’s up? What do y’all want to do today?

lol! Whenever I meet americans and they say y’all I find it so funny :smile: Sorry guys!

Yall stop insulting the foreigners, hear?

You don’t want to visit Texas. I use it only occasionally and no one else around me uses it. Whenever I address my friends, it’s “YOU ALL suck!!”
but I pronounce it kind of quickly so it probably comes out as yuall…

My science teacher mentioned to me today that whenever Germans speak, they sound like they are discussing secret military tactics. It’s true!!!

Howdy ya’ll!! :cool_laugh:

charlottedreamer, I say y’all all the time, and there is no shame in that for me! :content:
I can never decide to type it as ya’ll or y’all, but both work. I usually never type it in the forums or chat. I’m aware of the stereotype that surrounds it. If you say “ya’ll” in front of some people your IQ in their mind automatically drops 100 points. :grin:

When you have grown up with the word, and you learn to depend on it’s use there is no other alternative word for it. Atheist once suggested for me to use “everyone” or “everybody” but that’s too “proper and official.”

‘How is everyone?’ or ‘Is everybody going to the park?’ actually sounds funny in a weird way to me. I guess I enjoy using shorter words with less syllables. They have the same meaning and purpose but with less breath. :tongue:

‘How are ya’ll?’ and ‘Are ya’ll going to the park?’ actually requires a different use of the verbs “Is” and “are.” (I think they’re verbs.)

From dictionary.com it mentions that “is = Third person singular present” and “are = Second person singular and plural and first and third person plural present”
So I suppose “how are ya’ll?” is actually a more proper term for a group. “How is everyone?” uses a singular verb that seems to contridict the definition of the word “everyone.”

:lol: this reminds me of a “The Simpsons” episode I seen tonight. It was a real gut buster funny. Homer had his thumb cut off and the 1 crazy doctor told him he could cut the other one off to make him more symmetrical. Marge and Homer went to see a 2nd doctor but his building was on fire. The foreign doctor is outside yelling to the firefighters “inflammable??? Only in this country does that mean flammable!” :lol: so true, the English language is an evolving beast of confusion at times.

:grin: Yes, I suspected that there were a lot of people on this forum who say y’all… ya’ll… yaull… ok. I don’t know. I really don’t care if you say it or not
But here’s the solution to your problem

instead of ‘are y’all going to the park?’
'are you going to the park? you don’t actaully need the ‘all’ in there :smile: You can refer to 1 person or many people. I know it’s impossable to change habit though!
Once I billeted this American, and she didn’t have a strong accent, but she would always point out when I said ‘eh’ even though i didn’t think I DID say ‘eh’. It was too weird. I was saying it without even realisisng I was :bored:

eh? :lol: I know exactly what you mean.

Some younger people (I know I did) like to use the word “Like” a lot or something. It’s like they can’t find another word just like it or something. No one likes to hear a word like like that is used excessivly or something. :grin:

haha, and “or something” you see can be overused sometimes. Today I noticed an insane overuse of the word “and stuff.” It was painful to hear and stuff. It’s like a 2 year old repeating sounds and stuff. I don’t ever think the person saying it ever hears it and stuff. They can just keep repeating it and stuff, and it drives you crazy until you say stuff. :lol:

Language can be a humorous trait that is different in every household. charlottedreamer, thanks but no thanks for the alternative. It’s not ever a problem and I’m comfortable using it. It’s native language for my area and everyone here is comfortable using it. It’s use has been widely accepted and acknowledged here.
https://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=yall

Like, I was reading these posts y’all put here, and like, I was thinking “how funny!” and stuff. I thought “man this world is funny” or something like that and I was amused like, a lot!

I used to be like that. You can still see traces of that, like, even in my posts!