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    Posted: 25-Jun-2006 at 09:39

btw, we Dutch tend to make fun of the Belgians a lot, as supposedly dumb. Hm, does one perhaps think this has something to do with the fact that it took them all of 10 days of war to win their independance of us...

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Originally posted by Aelfgifu

Originally posted by xristar

Yes, homosexual gays. I know that this is stupid, but it is a very strong stereotpye.
 
 
Interesting...If we're all gay, how do we manage to procreate?
I for one am not gay, but as a single female it is my experience that gay guys are so much nicer than straight ones.
Don't try to find logic behind this.
All people think ancient Greeks were gay, but as you said, if ancient Greeks were all gay, how come they not only survived but also colonized so many places (overpopulation)?
 
Don't you worry, though. Dutch girls have no problem. It's probably your tolerancy towards such things (homosexuality), whith which we balkanians are not really familiar.

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All Bosnian Serbs are war criminals. LOL
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Well, where to begin with the Irish stereotyping? lol.

Let's see, we're all shillelagh carrying drunkards with flat caps, tweed coats and a love for the guinness and the livestock if the English are to be believed. We all like  the reels and the jigs, we all have top o' tha' marnin accents (Well the Free Staters do, I have my harsh northern accent), most of our women have red hair, we hate the English, our national foods are potatoes, corned beef and cabbage, our favourite game is throwing horse shoes at hoops. Most of us are called either Patrick O'Toole or Kitty O'Shea. Every town has a wishing well and a token toothless old man who imparts his wisdom to the village young folk.

90% of these are untrue today unfortunately. These stereotypes where mostly true during the 19th century though! The Irish diaspora who left the Isle during the famine have been spreading them ever since!

The people I blame for spreading these stereotypes: The English, St Patrick, Hollywood, the Irish diaspora, Michael f**king Flatley (Our Great Shame).



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Some stereotipes(mainly negative) in Bulgaria:

Turks - the turkish man is a butcher, who prefer to f**k his 4 wifes in the ass(anal sex)
Romanians - the romanians are fat sheperds and they cannot swimming
Kurds - don`t look at the kurdish women, because her husband will kill you immediately
Greeks - they are thinking that all other peoples are dumb and ugly barbarians
Albanians - for that people 10 children are too little number, and they prefer to kill with knife
Serbs - they are thinking that they are the greatest slavic people and they must rule all the Balkans
Bosnjaks - they love to cut off serbian heads
Croats - they are specialists in the smashing of heads with hammers
Russians - in all the world there is no such ting as "sober russian"
Muslim arabians & Iranians - they are happy everytime when some christian or jewish person dies
Indians(from India) - dancing gypsies
Gypsies - thiefs, ripers, murders
Jewish - they are happy when they are rich, and the others are destitute
Chinese & Mongolians - milliards of little jellow monkeys
Japanese - dangerous little jellow butchers with swords, who don`t talk but cry
England - puffed up fat tee-drinkers
Italy - frog-eaters who never stop talking
Africans - wild cannibals
Indians(from America) - asleep tobaco smokers
Nordic peoples - blond long-haired wild peoples, who will come with their boats to show you who is in charge here

Edited by The Chargemaster - 16-Aug-2006 at 04:44
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Of course, these aren't very wide-spread... Wink
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Originally posted by The Chargemaster

Some stereotipes(mainly negative) in Bulgaria:

Turks - the turkish man is a butcher, who prefer to f**k his 4 wifes in the ass(anal sex)
Romanians - the romanians are fat sheperds and they cannot swimming
Kurds - don`t look at the kurdish women, because her husband will kill you immediately
Greeks - they are thinking that all other peoples are dumb and ugly barbarians
Albanians - for that people 10 children are too little number, and they prefer to kill with knife
Serbs - they are thinking that they are the greatest slavic people and they must rule all the Balkans
Bosnjaks - they love to cut off serbian heads
Croats - they are specialists in the smashing of heads with hammers
Russians - in all the world there is no such ting as "sober russian"
Muslim arabians & Iranians - they are happy everytime when some christian or jewish person dies
Indians(from India) - dancing gypsies
Gypsies - thiefs, ripers, murders
Jewish - they are happy when they are rich, and the others are destitute
Chinese & Mongolians - milliards of little jellow monkeys
Japanese - dangerous little jellow butchers with swords, who don`t talk but cry
England - puffed up fat tee-drinkers
Italy - frog-eaters who never stop talking
Africans - wild cannibals
Indians(from America) - asleep tobaco smokers
Nordic peoples - blond long-haired wild peoples, who will come with their boats to show you who is in charge here
 
Well nobody spared...hmmm, I know some bulgarians, and although probably they wouldnt tell me about the albanian one, these other stereotypes apparently are not much in use. dont know, probably is some youth underground culture the yoursWink
And regarding the albanians, they mainly use the knife to cut the bread for feeding their children, who very rarely are more than three nowadays.
 
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Well, i expressly used that stile of writing, because i thought that in that way my post will be not only informative, but also funny.
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Originally posted by Tobodai

I think many foreigners dont understand how many regional differences in the US there are.  We are the fattest nation but where I live I see less fat people than I have in other countries...then I go visit family in North Carolina and I see fat people EVERYWHERE!
 
Anyway here are the regional steretoypes I am fond of (and generally have found to be at least somewhat, if not totally, true).
 
New Englanders are anal and cant drive (especially in Boston) or talk (paaaahhhk the cahhhhh in hhaaaaaahvaaahd yaaaahd)
 
People in Oregon set fire to SUVs and joing Greenpeace
 
Southerners are fat, stupid, lazy and inbred
 
New Yorkers worship themselves, and talk and act like the Fonz
 
Jersey is dirty and theres alot of hair spray
 
Midwesterners, like the places they live in, are boring and grow corn for fun (and play bizarre card games with german names).
 
Californians are hedonistic and stupid versions of east coast people in general though less neurotic
 
and of course my area, and this stereotype is true for me too, cheese steak quaffing pretzel munching dead fetus staring (mutter museum) benjamin franklin worshipper.
 
-I think these stereotypes are a little outdated...... I live in the Midwest and I do not know of anyone who grows corn for fun......those that do grow corn do it for survival. In reality about 1-2% of our population actually farms....so there you go. Also, my city and/or state is not boring in the least.....I guess it just depends on what you do for entertainment. Being an outdoors guy I love fishing, hunting, rafting, rock climbing, hiking, riding horses, etc..... but I also love going to football games, rodeos, movies, etc...... so I find plenty to do.
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This is of course a thread on stereotypes, the point is not to be accurate but to describe how people make fun of wach other.

And although people dont grow corn for fun they certainly dont do it for survival, the US midwest ALONE has enough food to feed the entire world, yet most of it goes to waste and farm subsidies keep this waste in business anyway.
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-Yes, but you did say that they were at least partially, if not totally, true....
 
-By survival I mean this is the way which they feed their families, provide shelter, buy clothes, etc....
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Outside of Egypt, we are thought to live in pyramids, surrounded by sand, our mothers are "mummy"s and our fathers ride chariots to work...
 
Inside Egypt, Southern Egyptians(closer to Sudan) are thought to be a little dim and slow to understand sarcasm and irony
 
Alexandrians are considered loud mouths who will stand as a group and threaten to bash you, but it turns out only one of them has the power to do it...
 
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Pakistan
 
Pashtuns: Homosexual, oversexed, speak in wierd accents, on drugs, brave, trigger happy, Tupak Zama Kanun Day.
 
Kashmiris and other N Area people: Live in the mountains, big lungs, small brains, make the world's worst tea.
 
Punjabis: Dominate the country, overweight, annoyingly friendly. The last one is true, Punjabis can be seen merrily singing along at regional music oncerts, completely oblivious to what the lyrics mean.
 
Sindhis: Wear funny caps in particular and clothes in general, unhealthy facination with alligators.
 
Balochis: Tribal, good food.
 
Makranis: Should'nt they be in Africa, good sportspeople.
 
Muhajirs: Alarmingly smart, look too Indian.
 
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catholics are backstabbers and lack besa.
orthodox are Grekophils.
south Albanians are short, fat and "greek like"
north Albanians are dumb tall and commit crimes
Kosovars are all nationalists
Malzor are "maloks"(mountain idiots)


I can go on for hours on end.
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It's the first time i've heard Spanish are arrogance. Shocked
 
I live far from Portugal and here we don't do jokes about them, usually Spanish jokes are about other regions in Spain, for example, Catalans, Basques, Aragoneses, but the hughest quantity of jokes are about Lepe, which is a town near Portuguese border (and there isn't any cause for that).
 
There are many stereotypes in Spain, for example many foreing peolpe think that Spaniards like flamenco or Sevillanas, bulls, etc, and we are playing the guitar all day, but is false. There are many cultural diferences in Spain. I hate flamenco and i'm against killing bulls.


Edited by Barbarroja - 31-Aug-2006 at 07:43
I'm sorry but my English is not very good. I'm from Vila-real (Valencia, Spain)
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  • От Искаро по-длибого нема, от Витоша по-високо нема. (Ot Iskaro po dlibogo nema, ot Vitoa po-visoko nema.) (There is nothing deeper than the Iskar River, and nothing higher than the Vitosha Mountain.)
On the one hand, it means that the Shopi refuse to acknowledge other countries' virtues; but on the other this is a clear example of their patriotism. Thats for my region.It borders Serbia to the west and it ends somewhere i think 100 from the capital sofia.
  • Once a Shop went to the zoo and saw the giraffe. He watched it in amazement and finally said: Е, те такова животно нема! (E, te takova ivotno nema!) (There is no such animal!)
So even seeing the truth with his own eyes, he or she refuses to acknowledge it.
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in bulgaria the humor is mostly for bulgarians from other regions
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  • Once a Shop went to the city, saw aromatic soaps on a stand and, thinking that they were something to eat, bought a piece. He began to eat it but soon his mouth was all foam. He said: Пеняви се, не пеняви, пари съм давал, че го ядем. (Penjavi se, ne se penjavi, pari sǎm daval, če go jadem) (Foam or not foam, it cost money, I shall eat it.)
When money is spent, even unpleasant things should be endured.
  • How was the gorge of the Iskǎr River formed? As the story goes, in ancient times the Sofia Valley was a lake, surrounded with mountains. The ancient Shopi were fishermen. One day, while fishing with his boat one of them bowed in order to take his net out of the water. But the boat was floating towards the nearby rocks on the slope of the Balkan Mountains. Consequently the Shop hit his head on the rocks and the entire mountain split into two. The lake flew out and the gorge was formed.(sorry for posting 3 times each after other)
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    All Americans are fat and lazy and arrogant with quick tempers.
     
    this is completely untrue...
     
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    in Turkey Jewish people tide,Laz people genouis,Balkan Turks are very hard worker and loves drinking.Kayseri people good trader(turkish jewish we call them)
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